Quote Originally Posted by missjean View Post
Speaking of dentist's boats & beach houses...I had to get an implant last year. As I'm sitting in the chair waiting for the novocaine to kick in, I'm looking at the x-ray of my mouth he has up on his computer. As I'm looking the x-ray goes away and a series of photos starts rotating - pictures of all his wonderful vacations! Pictures of the family skiing in the Alps, tropical beaches, white water rafting, hiking, and a big dinner on a patio.
Great. As I'm sitting there fretting on how I'm going to pay the $3000, I get to see what he does on vacation.
Oh that stinks!
Having had an implant that failed - I hope you have enough bone to support the screw. I had 11 mm of bone for 16 mm of screw (as measured on the digital x-ray). The dental surgeon that removed mine was one of those that publishes on the process, and his comment was: "don't they read my articles?!" I didn't have enough bone to support the screw, so of course it was going to fail, and in essence, I shouldn't have had an implant in the first place. He removed the failed implant, did a bone graft for the hole and then said if I wanted another implant I would need an additional bone graft - to build up the bone. Door #2 was to have a bridge, which is what I picked.
The details of the additional bone graft and healing time was more than I wanted, and I'd already spent enough on that one stinking tooth: root canal & crown, abscess, pull the tooth & bone graft, implant, remove the implant & bone graft #2, and finally a bridge. Insurance paid for treating the abscess (step #2) and pulling the tooth (step #3), everything else was out of pocket.
They got nice vacations, I didn't.