55 Year Old Female - Walnut Creek, CA

Thanks for sharing your story. I would love to do that, in the end was it about $20k?

I'm finding the same with my temporary bridge. Just finished my first two weeks. I have a bit of a lisp on 's'ss' and the top bridge exends a bit further onto my hard pallet. but its all tolerable. I actually love the look of the temporary. I did top and bottom. All my original teeth pulled...what was left.

You can get top and bottom down for $12,000 in Costa Rica and Mexico.....they have their own lab and are done in 6 days!? Not understanding since you knew about Mexico why you chose not to go there?

I'm in N.Y. Close to poverty line-I say that a lot so if I get a reply I don't need to hear what a wonderful experience someone had only to find out it ended up costing a fortune! I've got some very painful orthopedic problems that have yet to be taken care of for a ton of reasons. For the sake of brevity I won't go into detail. If accident hadn't happened at my daughter's house I would be wealthy right now but spilled milk etc. My teeth-what's left of them have me going crazy. $24,000 I could borrow-not sure how I'd pay it back but it's probably doable. However clear choice near me advertises for nearly 30,000-one arch. I need both done-just had last tooth on lower right side extracted and fractured four front lower teeth-look awful! Top teeth-another accident for which I was reimbursed a whopping 2grand (as a passenger in MVA at age 14 have been capped since that age. Here I go writing a novel-sorry! Well I was advised some decay was beginning underneath the front caps but that was several years ago when I was better off financially but put off doing anything about it because I gave my daughter money to keep her out of foreclosure(her husband was quite ill-is worse now-she had a preemie in NICU) and medical bills wiped her out no matter how many hours she worked. I've been on a very small am't. disability and my savings began to disappear just for living expenses. When my upper bridge finally broke off at gumline I had a temp flipper with 4 front teeth attached. VERY small bite-hated it-couldn't speak-eat-horrible. Found someone who shaved down upper teeth and put on 'temps'. When I fractured front lowers-still like that-I found out decay was under the temps! Was told all on top could fall out 'any minute'. I'm really losing it-between my smashed up leg and other problems from accident at my daughter's; constant pain-no money and soon to have no teeth I feel desperate. My bottom line here is I'm wondering why you received such a low (ha!) price for you upper arch? I would think the same franchise would be the same in N.Y. and California. Was there a special pricing or anything? Will they see no teeth on lower right and not do just upper arch because the implants might take too much pressure? I realize you may have no idea-just asking. Would appreciate any suggestions-just cannot tolerate dentures. Lord for the price of implants I could have a million other procedures done to make me look 15 years younger! Finally starting to look closer to my age(always looked a lot younger-was pretty and had a great smile. Boy-life catches up with you under severe stress. OK-done complaining. Your top teeth (tho your journey to get them was lengthy and scary at times) came out beautifully. Thanks to whoever listened to me whine!

wow! Incredible!

They look Beautiful!

What does temporary on all 4 mean? And they r beautiful !

They Are Beautiful.

gorgeous! wow

But your bite isn't matching up.

Thanks for all the information you have taken the time to post. My husband is also a diabetic and looking at implants. It is an overwhelming process! Can you tell me if you were put under general anesthesia for the process or just a twilight?

Looks awesome . Thank you for posting :-)

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