What should I do if the dentist ripped me off?

I went to the dentist with excruciating toothache. He said my tooth needed a root canal. The treatment cost €400. It was presented as if the treatment wouldn't be covered by health insurance. My dentist presented it as if this treatment would cost €400, no ifs, ands, or buts.

I recently learned that there's also a treatment option covered by health insurance, where I didn't have to pay anything.

Because of my appearance (I look like a southern migrant), I didn't receive adequate and competent advice. The dentist thought, "I'll just rip this idiot off."

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sassenach4u
1 year ago

The treatment has obviously not yet taken place, then you turn to another dentist.

The costs are taken over when the tooth is classified as safe. The directive on dental treatment states that the root canals must be prepared and filled up to or close to the root tip. For the rear side teeth (molars), a root canal treatment is usually cash flow when

  • so that a closed row of teeth can be obtained, that is to say that all teeth must be present from the tooth to be treated up to the middle of the jaw or that the corresponding gaps have already been supplied with dental prosthesis (also implants).
  • the treatment prevents the row of teeth from being shortened to the rear on one side;
  • can be obtained by treatment of an already existing dental prosthesis.

If a tooth is not tangible, an extraction is provided as the cash register power, i.e. the pulling of the tooth.

More here: https://www.costfalle-zahn.de/project costfalle-zahn/treatment/root treatment-was-paid-die-krankenkasse-12905

Topolino50
1 year ago
Reply to  sassenach4u

Perfectly explained

DeernVomDienst
1 year ago

No. That’s not it. Just because you signed this, you don’t have to let it go. Calculated only what was done.

It depends on which tooth it is and how many roots or how many channels the tooth has. The more the more expensive.

You have the alternative to letting the tooth go. This pays the health insurance. Then, however, there are costs for replacement, i.e. bridge or implant. The gap does not have to be closed but also usually has consequences.

It is best not to get so far that a tooth must be rooted. It doesn’t always work.

It doesn’t have anything to do with cankeys or anything else.

csor77
1 year ago

Maybe you should have read and ask what you’re signing.

Why didn’t you go to a good dentist you trusted?

karliemeinname
1 year ago

Hello LeonardoDi,

first, a doctor does not knock off. He’ll pay for BEMA or GOZ. If there’s really someone on the other side, his cash register is on the game and he could go for a taxi.

By the way: If you were to blame for racism, you’d get out of my way in the middle of the treatment.

You’re free to get a second opinion. And the cash flow was already mentioned in another answer and the problems were described.

Usually, you can be informed, but you can support racism because the German health insurance system is not a wish concert, that is unharmed.

Good luck!

Karliename

karliemeinname
1 year ago
Reply to  LeonardoDi

I thought you were jumping on it immediately;-)

Realisti
1 year ago

You should contact your health insurance company and ask what is possible. This can be U. the doctor will cost the cash register if it happens more frequently.

Krawallbotz
1 year ago

You are an open-minded person and have all the right of the world to inform you on the Internet and at the health insurance fund VOR.

You didn’t.

Because of your own failure to draw the Racism Map is quite lame!

Krawallbotz
1 year ago
Reply to  LeonardoDi

No- if a doctor tells me to pay $400, I’ll say “Okay, I’ll get a second opinion!”

And that’s exactly what I would have done. Date with another dentist with a second opinion !

However, those who do not claim this right should not complain.

Krawallbotz
1 year ago

Come on, you’re dramatizing… in case of acute toothaches, you get an appointment with every dentist…while no problem was to get an appointment immediately with another dentist