Paint Your Wagon please excuse me as I thought you were talking about extraction and false teeth (the old fashioned ones). Crowns as we call them run about $900 to $1000 each over here and implants can run up to $4.000 each which in my humble opinion is legalized theft. I anticipate some dental work in the next couple of months but at my age it is a no brainer! Take the cheap way out and live with it! Again, my apologies to my Belgium friend!
Oh by the way, I just went over 160 lbs for the first time in my life. Wife and kids say I am getting a gut now that I am a blistering 164 but I know its just my muscles relaxing at my older age!
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If you extract the old teeth and have removable false teeth that is like 250 euro in total here .
To do implants a surgeon has to sink between four and eight ankers in the bone ; but the bone has to be 10 milimeter thick or you penetrate the sinusoidal cave upwards . Each anker is 500 euro to sink and the counterpart ( screw in bolt ) is 500 euro too . Then each tooth will cost 550 euro and they are mounted on a titanium or other strong support
However if there is not enough bone left you need bone implanted from your hip first , at a price we did not bother too ask
So for the upper teeth she opted for an oldfashioned plaque
If some old teeths remain especially at key positions numbers 14 and 24 for the upper teeth and I do not know the numbers for the bottom teeth ; then a metal bridge can be made . The existing teeth are ground away to sharp stubs like dracula wears and then the metal bridge is fixed over all teeth and empty spaces and on top porcelain teeth are fixed at 550 euro a tooth . This is not strictly capping since that is per one tooth only and traditionally was in gold in the old days
In short however , try to keep "fixed" bottom teeth if you still plan to eat BBQ 'd meats like T bone steak
In my opinion it is totally "insane" to remove the root of a tooth if the root is not split ( as shown on an x ray ) or if the root has no infection under it . They remove the roots so they can charge you four times more afterwards .
But then again I still have all my teeth if I can count a counterfeight one .
I had a middle molar of which only the root was good . He used a cutting saw and sawed it off at gum level . He then put a superglue on the stub ( no kidding ) and put plastic layer by layer on it ; curing each layer with ultraviolet . At the end of half an hour there was a perfect new tooth in the place . Since it is 10 years ago I forgot which one it was and the difference cannot be seen except on x ray . I forgot the price but it was only "manual" labor