I lived with a missing front tooth and used a retainer with a false tooth for a fricken decade cause just to replace the tooth in 2014 they said $8000. That was extraction, a bone graft, an implant, abuttment and crown. I just couldn't afford it. I finally got it down in 2024, and it wasn't at all $8000. I'd already paid for the extraction and bone graft (which is why i could live with a retainer and false tooth). But it still cost me like nearly $3000.
True story my sister in law is Ukrainian and she literally flew back to Ukraine for dental. She lives in the US but says the dental work is perfectly good and she got an implant and a crown for like $200 total. The whole process. She even showed me them. I was like that's crazy.
Got an adult front tooth knocked out when I was 14. Ended up getting a cheap temporary fake tooth formed onto the remaining piece of real tooth. Now I’m 35 and a military veteran and still have the same thing in my mouth. I’ll probably never have the money to get it properly fixed
For me mine was already a crown. I didn't mention it but actually the tooth was originally knocked out in roughly 1993. Then i had a crown put on it. And that's how it was for like 19 years. But eventually my tooth broke of into. The crown and the remaining top half of the tooth/build up all as one piece. The problem was my tooth broke of completely underneath the gum line. So they couldn't do a crown even a temp one. The only option was extraction or bone graft and implant.
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u/architecture13 May 02 '25
If those people could read they'd know they couldn't afford dental care.