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Originally posted by MicroChick
PK, can you give us an idea what is involved. What is the cost per tooth? I'm assuming you had a tooth (cap) placed over each rod. You must have good bones because my brother was rejected because he didn't have enough strong bone mass to take the rods.
It sure beats a bridge! Hope the pain goes away soon.
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I had caps on the two teeth that had been there. I fell when I was about 11 and hit my two front teeth. At the time they told me that one tooth needed a root canal but that the other was fine. 25 years later I found out that the second tooth should of had a root canal also. My dentist feared that if that area ever suffered trauma of any kind (a hit in a fall, a car accident, etc) that both teeth might break off at the root. So they ground both down to nubs and capped them.
That did fine until about a month ago. The second tooth that they couldn't root canal because the root had calcified became absessed. My surest option was to remove the tooth and do an implant. I couldn't see doing one and not the other.
Thursday they removed the teeth ($470) and gave me a 'flipper' $400 (a retainer looking thing with two crowns attached to them) to wear. They drilled into the bone today and inserted the two titanium implants ($3,000). The implants will fuse with the bone in the next 6 to 8 weeks and they they will put the new crowns ($1,500) on the pegs at the end of the implants.
Costs I'm sure vary greatly by region and by dentist. The dentist I am using is very known in the area for implant and reconstructive dental stuff.