Re: [Harp-L] Re: Teeth Implants

[IcemanLE@xxxxxxx]

What is this?  Tooth-L?    ;>)
 
 
In a message dated 7/9/2009 12:45:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Michael  Easton wrote:
>The downside is cost.  If your student plans on  being around another
>20+ years and has the money  have
>them  go for the implants.

I had nine teeth removed from the back of my mouth  earlier this 
year.  Frankly it hasn't been anywhere near as lousy as  you'd 
imagine.  Heck, I'd almost recommend it.

I started  looking into implants at once.  In LA the average cost was about 
$4K  per implant.  $36K to replace mine?  On a harmonica player's  salary?

So I checked around and found out that a couple of friends had  just gone 
to 
Delhi to do some 'medical tourism.'  That is, the wife  needed both hips 
replaced.  In LA she was quoted as high as $140K and  not much lower and 
she 
has the same crummy insurance everyone else  has.  They did some research 
and found that in Delhi should could get  this work, highly recommended, 
for 
about $15K.

While they were  there, her husband got a great deal of dental work, which 
had been quoted  as being over $20K in LA.  He got it for under $3K in 
Delhi.

Both  my friends had incredible experiences, and what is turning out to be  
superlative work.  His American dentist took a look at all the dental  work 
in his mouth and proclaimed it to be first rate.  All in the  came back to 
LA about $20K lighter, but she can walk again and he can chew  his peanuts.

Well, my friends put me in contact with the Delhi dentist,  who looked at 
my 
Xrays (yay for digital Xrays) and quoted me a price of  $1K per 
implant.  $9K is doable for me.  But there are issues,  because you don't 
just walk in bare and walk out with implants.  The  stems have to be 
implanted in your jaw and then you have to wait for a  significant period 
before the final teeth are put in.  I can't stay  in Delhi for months, I'm 
an important man with emails to write.   There is some possibility of doing 
the posts and having the actual  implants made in India, and then having my 
LA dentist perform the  installation some months later.

But I have recently heard --- this  could be total baloney --- that up in 
Utah dentists charge about a grand  an implant.  I'd way prefer going to 
Utah.

Anyone know about  this?

K

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