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  1. #1
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    Default Re: Additional Costs for Dental Work

    Sometimes additional work is necessary. You had the work done, the dentist deserves payment.

    You can only ask if they will cancel your bill for this payment since they didn't tell you of any add'l. cost before the work was done. However; since the add'l. work was necessary, wouldn't you have had it done even if they had told you of the add'l. cost & not cancel your root cancel when it wasn't finished?

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    Default Re: Additional Costs for Dental Work

    You are correct in stating I would have had to proceed with finishing the root canal at that point. However, I think the additional work would have not been necessary if the dentist had done the work properly in the first place. And, no one in the office told me initially that the cost for the root canal was a contingent price and it might cost more. Further, no one told me at the time they were doing additional work it was going to cost more. I stopped at the desk on my way out, as I normally do, and no one told me I owed more money.

    Further, I assumed, and was not told otherwise when they gave me the original price, it was for a complete root canal job, which included the permanent filling. Now, they are charging me on thier itemized bill $160 to do the filling and $30 in other costs. I think the filling should have been included in the original $1,000 they charged me.

    I am going to speak with the dentist on Monday. If I don't get some satisfaction he can kiss my family's business goodbye. Of course, he could care less.

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    Default Re: Additional Costs for Dental Work

    Agree. Talk to your dentist's office & see what they might do for you since you weren't told of any additional cost/possible additional cost.

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