I hae a crown that has been a lemon from he start, the root is cracked, and I am looking at getting an implant. Wondering what experience and cost anyone else has had with this.
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I'm a little nervous... but... 2|2|I know even reading about it is making me feel sick.....|Quietwaters|Quietwaters39@hotmail.com|17:57:56|02/05/2012|
Wondering if the traditional method or the newer one hour is the better way to go.
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.. 4|2|Is this covered by most insurance companies?|Quietwaters|Quietwaters39@hotmail.com|17:59:53|02/05/2012|
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Not sure ... 6|1|A person I know from work had one and LOVES it.|bluh2oeyes|bluh2oeyes@yahoo.com|19:41:20|02/05/2012|
A man that I work with was held up a the cash machine sometime back about a year ago. He lost one half of his front tooth and one of the ones next to the front tooth.
He had the implant "socket part" put in not long after and had to wait for it to "heal-in" (that's all I can think of calling it.) Then after about 3 months he got the new tooth "screwed" in and they then fixed the front broken tooth. You can't even tell. It looks great now and he said he LOVES it. For him the most "painful" part was the wait of 3 months missing a tooth and half of another.
Not sure how some of these places advertise "we can take the tooth out, place the implant and place the tooth on the implant same day". He said he was told for best healing, etc. that his wait time of 3 months was best between implant and placing the tooth.
Not sure on cost, etc.
He looked pretty bad when I saw him the day after and he was just luck to even be alive he was beat up pretty bad. Of course the mugger was a repeat offender. Bill did what the police said nobody else dared to do...he beat the tar out of the guy and held him down while calling 911. When the police arrived they couldn't belive it.
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7|2|Yeah, I'm in that "healing" stage... I don't understand how those places can do same day either..|whitmarg|robin@whitmannet.com|19:46:39|02/05/2012|
.. 8|3|I have one for a molar; my oop was over $1500; the implant wasn't covered|sneakers1234|ross417@msn.com|20:31:01|02/05/2012|
and the crown was partially covered.
But I have a terrible taste in my mouth and I think it's what the crown is made of... 9|1|I think same day is a mini implant instead of a total implant 2 different types of implants. They are very popular in this area|tollman62|thebossatnight@yahoo.com|00:02:18|02/06/2012|
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you always hear noises in the dark when you work at night 10|2|years ago when these first came out..my aunt had this done..i think all of her front teeth|couponsnsamples|cpsnsamples@aol.com|09:28:57|02/06/2012|
it was done by the military..she said even after they healed it hurt just like a toothache..and she had them removed.. 11|1|Funny you should ask--my process started on Saturday|mfrs|mfrs.sv.ca@gmail.com|05:26:34|02/07/2012|
This was for decay under a crown that showed up on xrays. The implant was partially covered under my insurance but not the bone graft (human cadaver, I'm pretty grossed out but I assume the donation was consensual) so the pre-crown part is about 1000 out of pocket and depleted my flexible benefits copay pool. My dentist wants to wait a longer time than others describe (it was an exceptionally awful extraction, roots fused to jaw and from my point of view, blasted out, and required an awful lot of bone) so I was told a miniimum of 6 months before I can consider getting a crown. I may wait until my next year of flexible benefits to have the crown prepared if I don't feel too miserable, that should be covered as an ordinary crown. I felt that if I waited the jaw would suffer some bone loss and make the implant less likely to succeed. The alternative, a bridge, would cost about the same and damage the adjacent teeth.
As a bonus, there's inevitable weight loss after dental work this nasty.
I'm a dedicated blood donor and cannot donate for a year due to the tissue graft; that's 5 lives I could have helped save.
I would like to get a temporary retainer to protect the area, and there's something called an Essex bridge that should do that.
12|2|Thanks for all the information...|Quietwaters|Quietwaters39@hotmail.com|07:50:46|02/09/2012|
I don't think I would have to have the grafting done, the root is just cracked, and I have not heard anything about bone loss. Sounds like a long process. If a bridge cost the same you would thing the insurance would pay for the surgery too. I am beyond trying to figure out why insurance companies cover one thing and not another. Hope this turns out well for you.
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