I just got back from taking my three and half year old son to the dentist. This was his first dental appointment.  After having the X-rays done the dentist said that my son needs filling for two small cavities and also need to have two baby root canals on other teeth.

I do not understand what this means or how he should have to have so much dental work when I brush his teeth daily. It may have been a long time since I was a kid but if you had problems with your baby teeth you would just have them pulled.  The fact that the dentist wants to do baby root canals do not make any sense to me.   I told him to do the fillings but to pull the other two teeth.   He said since they are back teeth, it would not be a good idea to have them pulled.

The staff gives me the bill and it was very high.  My dental insurance company will only pay 50% of the root canals cost.   The filling are not so bad at 80% of the cost.  So I ask again to the dentist how much to just pull the two teeth and he would not tell me only repeated how bad it would be if he was to pull the teeth.

Sure how convent for him since I know pulling would be much less.  I feel that he only wants to change me more money for no real reason.   I left saying I would think things over and get back with him.  I see no reason to do root canals on baby teeth.  Do all dentist do unnecessary dental work like this?  I would like to find a dentist that will do what I tell them to do and just pull the teeth if need be.