So I've stirred things up a bit. Its been percolating in my mind that I might have to revise my $80,000 treatment plan a bit. 2009 is year 2 for a total cost of $40,000+. This encompasses all of my upper teeth including "cosmetic" crowns for my front teeth. Cosmetic but also necessary as they all have fillings and/or are bonded. Anyway, Dr. Shlosberg did come up with a really creative plan. The problem is I don't want to go into debt and its unlikely that I could get a good equity loan at this point. So I decided to continue with the plan except that I would have the cosmetic crowns on my 6 front teeth done in year 4, after all of the other work is done. I have a meeting with Dr. S this morning, so we shall see how he responds.
In the meantime I saw Dr. Kaufman yesterday and he agrees with me. So I will have two upper implants and then 8 crowns on the upper back teeth to fix the drooping of those upper teeth. Then in year 3 (2010), the lower provisional crowns will be replaced to meet the upper teeth.
I'm sad that I have to wait to have the perfect smile that was the catalyst for all of this to begin with, but financially this makes sense.
Next stop -- root canal. Ick!
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