Costs of a root canal treatment

In many cases, root canal treatment is the only promising way to preserve a severely inflamed tooth. Even with uncomplicated anatomical conditions, it is a complex treatment measure that requires a great deal of time. Despite the good results of root canal treatment, statutory and private health insurance companies do not cover the costs in all cases.

A root canal treatment is therefore not necessarily covered by health insurance. Root canal treatment can only be covered by the insurance company if the tooth to be treated is deemed worthy of preservation. In the case of front teeth, coverage is guaranteed in almost every case.

However, in the area of molars (lat. molars), it is not necessarily possible to classify a diseased tooth as worth preserving and to bill the therapy as a service covered by the insurance. The costs of root canal treatment on molars are only covered by health insurance companies under certain circumstances.

Molars are considered worthy of preservation: In individual cases, however, the dentist treating the patient can also justify the worthiness of preserving a diseased tooth on the basis of other guidelines and bill the root canal treatment as a service covered by health insurance. In general, however, the dentist must assess the chances of success of root canal treatment positively. Health insurance companies generally do not pay for therapy attempts with unclear chances of success.

It should also be noted that both statutory and many private health insurance companies do not or only partially cover the costs of special, novel therapeutic measures. If individual measures or even the complete root canal treatment cannot be billed by the responsible health insurance company, the patient must pay for the costs himself. Various supplementary dental insurances have meanwhile agreed to cover a larger scope of treatment and thus keep considerably more treatment options open for patients.

Stand in a complete row of teeth without a gap
Stand at the end of a complete row of teeth that would be shortened on one side by removing the tooth in question
To support an already existing dental prosthesis