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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
have a broken tooth that's needs to be pulled once I can get to a dentist.
sucks as it's a tooth that's visible and will give me a hillbilly smile.
It's a premolar 2-4. so 4th tooth in on the top.
the worst part will be the fight about treatment. last tooth I had pulled the dentist wouldn't shut up about getting an implant. "but we do payments..."
you're pressuring me into treatment I can't afford, I'm never going back to you.
I'm assuming the same thing will happen. The dentist will argue the most passionately for the most expensive treatment option.
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One thing to take into consideration is that if you did end up doing the implant down the road you can have bone loss the longer you wait and then you might need bone grafting first which is significant extra cost and 10x more painful than an implant was. The gum line also recedes at the adjacent teeth with bone loss. It also takes longer as you have to wait multiple months for the bone grafting to heal before doing the implant. The cost definitely sucks and I’m still paying it off.