Dental Implants with Bone Grafting. Boca Raton, FL

Dr. Arrington is the most honest, conscientious, meticulous, straight-forward, kind, and absolutely best dentist that I have ever encountered. Due to periodontal disease I had to loose two of my teeth -- my left top eye tooth and the one behind it, both fully visible with even the slightest smile. I had gotten estimates from two other dentists. Turns out each one included parts of the procedure that the other omitted. I felt that each one intentionally tried to misrepresent the true final cost in order to get started on me and then spring the final much higher cost on me. Dr. Arrington was totally different. He spend tons of time educating me about the procedure, the steps in the process, the costs of each step, and the absolute total cost of everything up-front. He didn't try to short me on any information just to get my business. He also gave me alternatives to implants, and let me make my own decision without any pressure. After having the previous two consultations and finding out they left details out, I felt so much more comfortable with Dr. Arrington and had him do my two implants, along with bone grafting on one because the periodontal disease had eroded too much bone for a successful implant without grafting. Because I simply refused to go a single day without teeth that could be seen when I smiled, I chose to have temporaries put in when my natural teeth were extracted. Without this vanity issue, I could have saved a total of about $1,500.00. An implant consists of an abutement which is like a screw put into the jaw bone, and then a seperate crown that looks like the tooth that sits on top of the abutement, or anchor. Together they make a total implant. Each has its own separate cost. One of the dentists I went to failed to mention that I would have to pay an additional cost for the crown meaning that I left his office with a tremendously underestimated cost. After settling on Dr. Arrington, he first made impressions to send to the lab to have temporary abutements and crowns made. I returned in about a week and had the extractions, the root grafting, and the temporaries placed. Dr. Arrington took such time and care matching the color for these temporaries to my natural tooth color that you could not tell they were temporaries at all. I knew I was at the right place when the dentist was so meticulous in making my temporaries perfect -- and they were. Dr. Arrington had me return in a week to check the healing. Then again in a month. I returned 3 months later and had impressions taken to be sent to the lab for my permanent implants. (I had not a moments trouble with the temporaries and was completely satisfied with them.) A couple of weeks later I returned for the permanent implants and crowns. They look absolutely fabulous. Dr. Arrington did so great a job on my porcelain crowns that no one has been able to tell that I had any dental work at all, either with the temporaries or permanents. The cost and steps were completely worth it. I am so glad that I found such a great dentist in Dr. Arrington. I more than highly recommend him to anyone for any procedure they need. He is not going to rush, not going to hurt you, and definitely not going to try to talk you into expensive procedures just to get your money. What he will do is spend a ton of time educating you, then take his time to make sure you don't feel any pain at all, and finally take all the time he needs to make sure everything is absolutely perfect. He's simply the best dentist I've ever seen.