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We have Delta Dental but they pay very little. I had a root canal and had to pay $1,200 after insurance, ridiculous! We don’t qualify for any programs because “we make too much money.” I refuse to get a “credit card” for medical/dental and pay outrageous interest when medical/dental is supposed to be interest free! If you ask me dental doctors are charging way too much! No wonder people have such horrible dental health! No one can afford to fix it! Any suggestions?

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My mom paid close to $17,000 for several extractions (she needed sedation) and dentures with all the fittings. Seemed like highway robbery to me. And the dentures were the temps not the final, which we never ordered after paying an arm and a leg. She only ever wears the top plate as it is. A fitting/adjustment was close to $1000 with the re-lining. Ask lots of questions and shop around. I wish we did!
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One of Mom's caregivers flew to Dominican Republic to get her dental work done. It looks good and she is happy. She is Haitian American.

Consider travel dentistry.

If nothing else travel to Florida and get prices from some of the bargain denture places. We have them all over town.

I took one of my boyfriends workers to my dentist as she had lost a lot of teeth. She wanted implants. The dentist told her to go with dentures. He said with the number of implants she needed she would be making payments for the rest of her life from unscrupulous dentists.
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If you can afford $1200 for your root canal, you can afford the Delta Dental co pay for dentures for DH which is less than that. Forget about implants, that's my suggestion.
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My friend paid $30,000 for implants for her husband, who had dementia. They always hurt, never worked right, and he died a year or two later. She wished she hadn't done it.
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How old is your husband? Implants are very expensive, I would go with dentures.

If you paid 1200 after Delta paid maybe 50%, you paid too much for a root canal. Me, if its a back tooth, I just have it pulled.
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If we opened forums to complaints of "the cost of things" and how medical/dental care "should be delivered in the United States" it would take up all the space I am afraid. Not everything can be changed.
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It is outrageous. Apparently older adults aren't supposed to see, hear or eat as they age...

Sarcasm aside... Is there a family dental practice in your town or surrounding area? My parents are lucky to have found a dentist who allows them to pay over time, no interest. They've been with him for decades and he's always been very kind in this way. It doesn't hurt to ask. It would have to be for dentures not implants...
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My husband is getting his top teeth pulled in July, 8 teeth 100 each tooth then dentures, we are expecting about 3 thousand.

My husband is 73, he sees no point at his age in spending probably 20,000 on his teeth, but also know the importance of dental health.

Dental health is rediculus, especially since it affects your physical health so much. This is just the society we live in now. 😞
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Dental insurance has always been pretty much a joke, but I do know that dentures are a WHOLE lot less than implants.
According to "Google" a full set of dentures average around $1800, whereas a full mouth of dental implants can range from $15,000-$30,000.
And as always is the case, you should buy what you can afford. So in your husbands case it looks like he'll be getting dentures.
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