I have a 2 year old with a very loose front lower tooth. The quote from the vet was ridiculous!!! Anyone know what a simple extraction should cost. Will have to put him under, 30 seconds to pop it out. reversal of sedation.
Thanks
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I have a 2 year old with a very loose front lower tooth. The quote from the vet was ridiculous!!! Anyone know what a simple extraction should cost. Will have to put him under, 30 seconds to pop it out. reversal of sedation.
Thanks
Can't imagine the money my dad saved using pliers on all us kids :)
Email a few local vets or call to get a quote. I have two vets ,one in the U.S when i am visiting my daughter and rest of family living in eastern Ontario. I also have one in South Western Ontario where i am currently living. Both vets would differ greatly in price range U.S being typically much lower and in many cases more advanced care from my experience. I have a really good vet in Sarnia Ontario but i did have to search keeping cost in mind and experience of vet pertaining to my goals.Quote:
Originally Posted by cdelargy
$300 might not be too far off.
I had a dog get a back molar pulled, forget the price but it wasn't free.
yank it yourself if it's that loose
I would but the wife and I can't even get a good look at it, they fight for their life. Short of 2 X 4 sedation, we do need the vet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mount Sweetness
The vet was quoting whole mouth xray $300, possible wiring of a fracture jaw. I said that would be over $1000, she said more.
I asked if she was kidding. Plus a few other things. The dog is still playing underwear tug of with my other Britt. No fracture there. We need the loose tooth pulled. That's it !!. She backed up quite a bit after that.
My Britt snapped off a lower Canine and when the vet X rayed he found 2 other teeth that were cracked and needed to be removed. He capped the busted one but it eventually fell off. If I remember right it was @ $1300 and that included anesthesia, tooth work and medications. The Doc was Fraser Hale from Guelph and he is a Veterinary Dentist specialist. One of the best in the tooth game. $300 for 1 tooth especially if its a lower canine doesn't sound unreasonable. Sedating dogs is expensive. You'll spend $100 taking your wife out to dinner. If your dog won't let you look at the tooth it is in pain and needs attention quickly.
A word of caution though, some dogs have actually lost hearing after being sedated and teeth cleaned. I guess what I'm saying is put your vet on notice that you are aware of this possible side effect.
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The $300 was only for the xray. She was quoting more than $1000 to pull the tooth. This was for a small front tooth, not the canine. I have stood and watched other dogs get sedated, stitched up, then sedation reversal. 15 to 20 minutes to totally fall asleep, 3 minute stitch job, 15 minutes to wake up. It is not that expensive.
Not all dogs will let you look in their mouth, at their feet, or other places without a struggle. Being in pain does not always come into play.Quote:
Originally Posted by terrym
X's 2 on Doctor Hale. Unfortunately not exactly right around the corner for you!Quote:
Originally Posted by terrym
Not much is around the corner from me :o LOL. Sometimes that is a good thing. Not a lot to choose from in this case though :( .Quote:
Originally Posted by Dakota Creek
Pull it yourself. We never had a problem doing it on the farm. Gravol works great on dogs if you need to quiet it down a bit.
I am sick of vets hugely inflating not just the price but the complexity of everything! Two years ago they convinced my family that we were irresponsible pet owners for not paying $300 to have our 2 year old cat's teeth cleaned. We stupidly agreed to the proceedure which included sedation.
An hour after dropping the cat off at the vet I got a call that the cat had died. They claimed it was a reaction to the sedation, but the drug they used was exactly the same as the one used a year earlier when it was spayed. When I went in to pick up the cat's remains they actually presented me with a bill for the proceedure costs up to the point where it died, the vet took one look at my face and quickly said "well, maybe we won't worry about any charges on this one" (which was the right move since that was the only action that prevented me from starting some court action against them!).
Certainly we do take our pets for complex stuff, tests, etc. But pulling loose teeth, treating cuts, etc. we handle ourselves.
Anyway... rant over!
Dental costs vary widely amongst vets. Do some research. DrHale's website is a good place to start. We switched vets two years ago based on an overinflated dental extraction estimate. First vet -- $1100 Second (current) vet $550. Both included general anesthetic, pre-surg blood work, X-rays, cleaning, extraction of broken tooth, meds and recheck.
Two weeks ago we took our other dog to have two lumps removed and biopsies, tooth cleaning and found out he has a rare dental problem. He lost 28 teeth that all had to be surgically excised and the total bill was $2600 -taxes included. Fee guide rate was just shy of $6000. Two dentists worked on him for eight hours. All by way of saying that they aren't all in it to scam you. In fact most aren't.
Brought my dog in a few years ago for regular check up , and check out a lump.
Doc said the tumor has to be removed immediately . Said the cost would be $1600.00
If were me I would not of had him operate , but you know wives she insisted we have it done.
Three days later the vet calls and says we can pick up our dog.
I asked him if everything went ok . He told me he did not find the tumor .
I told him , well then you won't find the $ 1600 dollars either, and walked out with me dog.
A couple years I noticed our dog gingerly trying to eat her hard food. Upon examination, I noticed that she had some loose teeth (canines, not molars). After a trip to the vet, she was a few teeth lighter. I think they removed 4 or 5. Don't think it was more than a few hundred to get it done.
Why don't you do what you would have with your kids, give them an apple. Or maybe something a little harder light a chew bone.
deb
coincidentally, one of my dogs (5 yo) broke an incisor, we found couple day ago.
My regular vet (which I like and they're not greedy like most vets today) quoted almost $500 for just the extraction, and $600 if they were to clean and polish all the teeth too. Most of the cost is the pre-op, blood work, anesthesia. The actual tooth extraction is $36!
I got a quote from the specialist Terry mentioned - much much more, but the thing is regular vets can't do things he can, like root canal. Removing some teeth in dogs is highly risky - the roots are too big (in some molars and pre-molars and canines).
The way I look at it - the vets are doing those things by the book - blood work etc. The prep is there to protect the dog (cat). Sometimes despite the precautions poop happens, but than they can say - we did everything by the book. It sucks when it happens, but it does, even in human medicine.
Diagnostic mistakes happen too. I brought my b1tch for an ultrasound to confirm pregnancy and they tell me - no pups, but she's got pyometra, we have to spey her. OK, tough luck - go ahead. After they start surgery - sorry, we feel like idiots, but the uterus is OK! Would you like to leave it or take it out? I know the vet. She's good, but she made a mistake and she admitted it.
BTW, it's perfectly possible to have an allergic reaction to something that didn't cause it before, happens all the time.
I got some sedation med's from our vet because my dog had a hard time traveling in the vehicle, he has now over come that but I still have half bottle of the med's left, last yr he had a loose tooth so I gave him 2 of these sedation pills and in an hour he was almost out and I pulled the tooth. Ask your vet for this med and pull yourself.
Yup, sudden allergy to vet bills as soon as I see the total.Quote:
Originally Posted by vom Dufenshmirtz
Can you go to a Vetinary School? That would be a lot cheaper
Several posts on here about using anti histamines, gravol etc. Not saying it isn't good advice , BUT be very careful about dose amounts and timing. Do your homework first.
Couldn't agree more.Quote:
Originally Posted by woody1948
Ended up costing around $350. Better than the $1500 she was quoting before I got pissed. Still to much in my opinion. The vet quotes surgery in 8 minute time slots. This procedure took the vet approx. 4 minutes. Not a bad hourly rate. Just about as much as pro sports.