How I managed to spend $8,000 on wisdom teeth extraction (180 days after ultrasonic bone knife extraction)

This is a true story, I never use the annual leave, but I spent all 5 days on wisdom teeth extraction, 80% of the treatment cost for the out-of-pocket expenses, I believe that the price I paid may have been far more than 8,000 yuan this can be quantified, you may also wonder why I pull a tooth will be so pitiful, the average person spends 500 yuan is already very impressive. Writing this article is on the one hand a summary of this painful experience, but more hopefully this story of my own can help everyone in the wisdom teeth extraction this small problem less detours, and even can avoid paying a similarly high price. In the extended reading recommended fruit shell online medical knowledge about wisdom teeth thanks to @ panda toothache , also welcome to share their own experience in the knowledge of more friends to pay attention to dental health issues.

April 03, 2015 - Added review results after 180 days (thanks to Dr. Go and Dr. Ye of @Ninth People's Hospital)

January 21, 2015 - Added description of surgical anesthesia and revised the NMR*** vibration to a panoramic slice (thanks to Dr. Ye of @Ninth People's Hospital)

December 30, 2014 - Wrote the first draft

Read the original article - http://wsgzao.github.io/post/wisdom-tooth/

Extended reading

I don't know when I realized that my innermost teeth hurt but I didn't know what was going on, and I always kept good brushing habits, and endured a period of time when it seemed to stop hurting, and I didn't take it seriously. I didn't take it seriously. Two years ago in the physical examination, the doctor suggested that I go to the hospital to check the wisdom teeth and consider extracting them, and I communicate with my parents jokingly insisted on going to the hospital to extract the teeth and was strongly opposed by my parents, because they are worried that extracting the teeth will have a negative impact on the body (long crooked impact on the permanent teeth or the formation of cavities should be extracted in a timely manner), their own faulty communication combined with the lack of analysis of the impact of wisdom teeth from this point onwards buried a landmine. A landmine was planted at this point. After two years, I found that my teeth could not accept sensitive food, chocolate, big white rabbit and sugar gourd all away from me, until September 2014 when I felt pain when drinking water I realized that my teeth are in a big trouble.

According to the customary advance appointment Xuhui Dental Defense (second class A), to the company to take the annual leave, ready to medical records and medical insurance card (this is one of the pitfalls, now unified for the social security card), and then I waved to see the teeth, the problem began to surface one by one:

Nine hospitals (specializing in extracting teeth for 50 years) is really not ambiguous, in the end of the X-rays, the first request to do a complete CT and panoramic films. The complete CT as well as panoramic film, after analyzing the report also believe that there is a certain risk of wisdom teeth extraction, even minimally invasive surgery is not applicable, the final treatment plan by the director of the physician personally implement ultrasonic scalpel, but the cost of the surgery is a little expensive, not only is the out-of-pocket expenses and the need to make an appointment for about half a year (as shown in the picture above), I feel that this is a super god mending ah.

3 days later when I was still in a daze in the subway on the way to work suddenly received a call from the nine hospitals said that a patient temporary change of heart ask you want to top up, I saw the situation and quickly turned around and went straight to the hospital, fortunately, I'm smart enough to take along with me the social security card and medical records card, the phone to inform the parents and the unit opened up the real road to the extraction of teeth.

1 month later, the same can be early notice of the queue (thank you nine hospitals on my care ha), but unfortunately I can not take pictures of the wisdom teeth and even the opportunity to witness the wooden, because the doctor said that your wisdom teeth are bigger than everything they have seen, I am very curious about the following two wisdom teeth in the end, how capricious is it. Because this day's surgery is not very difficult, or to share with you the hospital process and tips, it is recommended to have a family member or a friend accompanied by a major doctor to take care of each other.

The end of the surgery 1 month after the recovery I must also go to the endodontist to do filling treatment, because the main reason for the current toothache lies in tooth decay, just to my surprise is the ordinary filling cost is extremely low, even less than 50 yuan, but effective control of cavities, partners what are you waiting for hurry up and go to fill it, and the general treatment of cavities to choose the roughly like this:

When the receipt of the Nine Hospitals ultrasound The last time I went to Nine Hospitals for a tooth extraction, I was notified by text message of the post-operative review, and I couldn't help but thank Nine Hospitals for not forgetting about me. It has been about half a year since I last went to Nine Hospitals for a filling, because my permanent tooth was broken by my wisdom tooth, which led to a cavity, and I only had one filling done at that time, taking into account the different degree of damage to the two sides of the tooth. The actual recovery in half a year is still very satisfactory, no more pain when eating chocolate, even my favorite white rabbit and candy cane can be chewed. The review was also very simple, I voluntarily paid $250 for a CT scan, and went home to wait for the result to be notified. Here I would like to thank Dr. Ye for his extra help in confirming the details of my wisdom teeth and permanent teeth, which should be the final chapter of my wisdom teeth extraction, thank you for taking the time to read it.

Reimbursement generally follows the principle of separating public healthcare from private healthcare according to the invoice, and going through a different process to get reimbursed (above grade 2A).

In the beginning of the article I also said that the average person to remove wisdom teeth may only need a few minutes, bite the cotton ball rest half a day to 1 day, and do not have to spend more than 500 yuan, but when we take for granted that it does not matter, we often choose to forget until the teeth start to hurt again. No one should be willing to put in the aforementioned time, effort and money to fix an otherwise small and minor problem like I did, so if you now realize that your teeth are abnormal as well, please take the time to find a reliable clinic and take action as soon as possible.