If you need a root canal, you may think the only good reasons to get it quickly are health-related. Fair enough – many dentists (rightly) emphasize how delaying the therapy leads to tooth loss. However, there are also financial perks to getting a root canal before the year’s end. Delaying treatment too long would make you miss these wonderful upsides. As for the details, read on to learn about the economic reasons to get a root canal before the year’s over.
Remind Me: What’s a Root Canal?
Before you get to the money stuff, you should review the basics of root canals. Doing so helps you see why prompt treatment has its financial advantages.
A root canal is a procedure that heals and repairs tooth infections. To do so, it relies on special dental tools to remove the infected pulp – your tooth’s innermost layer – from your mouth. The treatment will then clean and seal the affected canal to prevent further damage. Often enough, it concludes with your dentist placing a permanent crown on the once-infected tooth.
While painless, root canals are known to be somewhat lengthy. Most take an average of 60-90 minutes, and some require more than one dental visit.
Why Get One Before the Year’s End?
From a savings perspective, there are two major reasons to get a root canal before the year’s end. They are the following:
You’ll Maximize Your Dental Benefits
While they don’t get 100% coverage like dental checkups, root canals are generally covered by dental insurance. Most dental plans view them as basic procedures and meet up to 80% of their cost. That said, you won’t enjoy this setup if you delay your root canal past December 31st. Unused dental benefits expire at the year’s end and don’t roll over, so you’d have to pay your deductible again to get coverage.
You’ll Avoid Costly Follow-Up Care
If you delay your root canal too long, your infection will start spreading from your mouth toward other body parts. Treating this sort of issue would involve costlier procedures, like tooth extraction or outright tooth replacement. (The latter possibility is especially harsh, as replacement options like single-tooth implants are known to be quite expensive.) That means getting a root canal now would save you money otherwise spent on follow-up care.
Remember to Ask About Flexible Financing
If you do get a root canal before 2025 ends, remember to ask your dentist (or endodontist) about financing options. This service could combine with your insurance coverage to make treatment even easier on your budget.
You see, dentists want their procedures to be affordable for patients. They don’t like seeing people decline crucial care because of a lack of necessary funds. Many have thus partnered with financiers like Cherry or CareCredit, which let patients cover their treatment costs in monthly installments. Using this financing could make an otherwise pricey root canal fit your financial situation.
Now that you know the above, consider getting your root canal before the year’s end. You’ll worry less about money that way!
About the Practice
Parkway Endodontics is based in Lorain, OH. Led by Dr. Vaziri, our practice is always ready and eager to repair a patient’s infected teeth. We thus offer root canal therapy, root canal retreatments, root canal surgery, and more! Whatever ails your aching tooth, you can trust our office to solve the problem. For more details or to book a visit, please contact us on our website or by phone at (440)-960-2660.
