Hello! I am an international student & resident in Belgium. I recently slipped down the stairs and broke my tooth a bit. I only have travel insurance which was needed for my visa, and it is valid until August. I know, I know, why didn’t I get local health insurance? Because I am a lazy idiot and was postponing getting it for months.
Anyway, I did email my travel insurance company and I will register with a local health insurance tomorrow but until then, I need someone to calm me down and tell me that such dental care (fixing this damn tooth) is included in insurance and/or I will not have to pay like thousands to get it fixed.
Also, which dental clinics would you recommend?
My tooth looks exactly like the one in this picture.
[https://wildwooddentalclinic.com/why-restore-a-broken-tooth/](https://wildwooddentalclinic.com/why-restore-a-broken-tooth/)
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It won’t cost you thousands, even without insurance. Doesn’t your travel insurance have a hotline you can call for advice and referrals to the required care?
From what I know a root canal treatment with a filling is around 300€ total for 2 separate consultations.
I guess reconstructing a tooth must be under or around the same pricing, if you don’t use a crown.
A crown on the other hand is probably somewhere around 600-900 depending on the type of crown you’d use (full porcelain, porcelain on a steel basis…)