Have your teeth been eating up all of your money in dental work leaving a bad taste in your mouth? And you thought your parents were doing you a huge financial favor by investing in those goofy looking braces, embarrassing head gear and your nightly retainer.



Thanks a lot Mom and Dad. You thought this struggle on your self-esteem and your family’s pocket books was a temporary expense? Maybe you attended college and went a while without dental insurance coverage? Maybe you indulged in sweet foods and didn’t brush your teeth as much as recommended?



Maybe you truly did brush as recommended but your genetics are to blame? Whatever the reason, you now enter adulthood and your oral hygiene expenses increase by the minute. Fee after fee of dental nightmares lurk inside your mouth waiting to take your money. To think you once avoided tartar and even tartar sauce fearing it may cause more teeth cleanings. Childs play. As you age, dental surgery and its related costs knock louder on your door. Dentists by many names and specialties peer under your squeaky hood with flashlights breaking your heart and your pockets with their disheartening financial verdicts. How can we reduce unnecessary costs? How do we eliminate unnecessary dental procedures and determine the truth about our best options and lowest possible prices for the higher cost dental treatments including dental implants and dental surgery? How are we to trust these dental mechanics? Is $5000 dollars a good price to pay for dental implants? Years ago, in fact ever sense we’ve had teeth, we’ve had Dentists. Did we have expensive dental procedures? Expensive dental insurance coverage, intricate HMO coverage, insurance premiums and co-pays communicated to us by Human Resource specialists? Nope. If your tooth hurt they pulled it out. We dealt with it. Now we have Prosthodontists, orthodonists, Periodontists, and other technical “Dontist” oral surgeon varieties. Do you need dental work? Is it time to bite the bullet and just get out the dentures already? Is it time to convince yourself that you prefer the taste of apple sauce over hard foods? Are you currently missing a tooth and just about ready to pull the rest out one by one in defiance of rising dental costs? Not so fast.
Are your teeth real? It’s becoming increasingly more difficult to tell the difference between natural teeth and teeth implanted to be used as replacements. Dental care is as important for our well-being and physical appearance as it is for actual chewing. We sometimes forget that first and foremost, teeth are our tools. When tools break we replace them. In circumstances where teeth need to be replaced due to an accident or tooth decay and we are not millionaires, we are in need of lower cost dental implants that allow us to eat foods while maintaining confidence with our appearance. Fees for root canals, cavities, bridges, caps, implants and biannual teeth cleanings are no smiling matter. Dental costs increase exponentially with age and many dental procedures are not only mandatory for proper dental hygiene but also help to prevent even higher dental fees down the road.