Tooth implant - full procedure cost

[offroad]

My girlfriend mentions that a USA full implant procedure to replace a tooth is $4000. In Iceland it's one tenth this cost at $400 per tooth. What are the Canadian and Mexico prices for a well and safe full cost procedure per tooth?

 

[kyonu]

Probably the best place you can go to:

http://www.riograndedental.com/dental_implants.htm

1150 for an implant. Not as good as over seas, as 1 USD is 14 Pesos where 1 USD is 124 Krona. 1 USD is roughly 1.5 Looney in Canada, so it won't be much cheaper there. So if you can afford the trip to Iceland, it might be the best bet.

 

[wagoneer]

If you don't have the bone mass to support an implant it does not matter what it costs, that was my problem

 

[Almost There]

Probably the best place you can go to:

http://www.riograndedental.com/dental_implants.htm

1150 for an implant. Not as good as over seas, as 1 USD is 14 Pesos where 1 USD is 124 Krona. 1 USD is roughly 1.5 Looney in Canada, so it won't be much cheaper there. So if you can afford the trip to Iceland, it might be the best bet.

The conversion rate isn't THAT bad... this morning it's 1.169 at my bank to buy US dollars.

The pricing is what kills me here. I can regularly count on stuff being at least 1 1/2 times what it would cost south of the border. Gas prices have been steadily going down. Yesterday I got a bargain and filled up on gas at 1.059 a liter. But that's still $4.24 for a US gallon. Last summer on the west coast I was paying the equivalent of $5.80 a gallon - and y'all think CA gas is costly...haha.

Without pricing it for you, I can bet that an implant here would run at least 5 G just based on past experience with price differences.

 

[kyonu]

If you don't have the bone mass to support an implant it does not matter what it costs, that was my problem

You're right! I know I may be young, but I have full dentures upper and lower. Had them since 2011, so over 3 years now. I can still get implants since I'm young and have a strong jaw, but soon they will be withered too much to get a strong seal, and it will cost thousands more to create fake bone to attach it.

However if your older (no offense meant) the jaw bones, upper and lower, are much more prone to degradation and you'll need the implants to be put in almost immediately after you get the old tooth and root removed. If you've had dentures for more than 3 years and your over the age of around 45, chances are you'll be in dentures for life unless you have the financial income to afford bone creation (which is just as pricey as the teeth implants!)

They can still do this in Mexico as well, but I dunno about Iceland.

@AlmostThere: Man, that is pricey! I guess all that free/low cost health care really takes its toll on the other stuff, huh?

 

[offroad]

Dentures or bridges could happen.

 

[Almost There]

@AlmostThere: Man, that is pricey! I guess all that free/low cost health care really takes its toll on the other stuff, huh?

I cringe when I hear 'free health care' - ain't no such animal. It all has to be paid for somehow, somewhere.

Dental care isn't included in our universal health care system. Dentists are free to charge market prices and they do.

Our cost of living is much higher than in the US but not only due to the additional tax burden for providing health care. Having lived both sides of the border perhaps gives me a somewhat unique perspective on this but y'all don't want to get me started on 'free health care'...my soapbox is very, very high....

 

[kyonu]

Haha, that's why I added the "/low cost" bit!

Either way, I wasn't referring to dental being free, more just a comment on why other prices are so high. They have to make up the costs somewhere!

 

[HarmonicaBruce]

About 5 years ago I got 4 lower implants and a lower to attach to them, and a normal upper. Altogether I spent about 12k, but it was so worth it. I've known a fair number of harmonica players who had to quit playing when they lost their teeth. I was resigned to it, but I play lots of other stuff anyway. When my dentist was selling me on the implants, he talked about how good looking I'd be, how I'd be able to eat. I told him I didn't care nothing about that, the only way he was going to sell them to me was if he could convince me I'd be able to play harmonica with them. Well, I can play better today than I ever have. But you have to do it before the bone recedes. It's the best money I've ever spent.

 

[offroad]

I mentioned the Iceland location because an airline attendant friend went there and had it done. She is extremely happy.

 

[akrvbob]

I'm getting implants in Algodones Mexico right now. $1200 US dollars each. The dentist is a renowned specialist who teaches it. All he does is implants. He has a whole office of other dentists who do everything else. Truly outstanding dentistry.

You can get them for a little less, but he is slightly more because of who he is.

Bob

 

[kyonu]

That's actually the place where I was thinking about getting my implants done! But I need all 32 teeth, so it will be very expensive.

 

[HarmonicaBruce]

Ok, I'm going to have to upload some pictures to explain this.

Here are my implants. All they are is little "studs" that are screwed into the bone.

Here is my lower denture. Notice the four "holes" that sit on the implanted "studs":

Here is me showing as many teeth as I am able.

When I went to have this done, he pulled all my teeth. My lowers are held by the 4 studs, and the upper is a conventional upper with no implants. I guess they do implants where the implant is just holding one tooth. What I have is better, because all the lower teeth are connected as one structure, which is held in place with 4 studs screwed into the bone. Plus, what I have is probably cheaper than you'd have if you only had one tooth on each implant.

 

[offroad]

Hbruce - thanks for being brave and personal with your pictures. Good medical tech. You can eat and play harmonic and it looks like that lower grand total at a Mexican dentist might be less that $5000 all said and done?

 

[66788]

If any of our lovely female members would like to post pictures of their implants, I bet we would love to see those too.

 

[HarmonicaBruce]

If any of our lovely female members would like to post pictures of their implants, I bet we would love to see those too.

I hope I didn't scare anyone when I said I was going to show pictures of my implant.

 

[Almost There]

I hope I didn't scare anyone when I said I was going to show pictures of my implant.

Yeah, you did but then I'm dental phobic anyways so I should really just put this thread on ignore...

 

[HarmonicaBruce]

... I'm dental phobic ...

The really wonderful thing about my implants is I don't go to the dentist anymore. I didn't see him for 3 years, then I broke 2 lower tooth off trying to bite off a piece of baking chocolate. I got a deal on getting 2 new ones glued on, just $400. That was "half price". I'm careful about what I bite on now. All my life I've had a struggle with my teeth, no more!

 

[LeeRevell]

I have only my two front lower teeth and a out three quarter of my uppers. Showing my English heritage....
I have no problem eating most anything.