Re: O/T: Is this dental fee reasonable?

[Guest guest]

> Does it normally cost about 4500 bucks to remove 3 amalgams, drill

> down 2 teeth for a future bridge, drill out a 3rd tooth to remove

> tooth decay, and create (8) temporary crowns for the same? Actually

> I have been charged 3000 euros (I'm in Europe). I just did an

> approx. conversion. It seems rather steep!

> I do not intend to continue with this dentist. Bad experience - did

> more than he should have after removing the amalgams, I foolishly

> got persuaded, so now instead of just one bridge from before (metal-

> free), I will have to have 2 more bridges and my naturopath was

> pretty livid with the whole thing! He said the teeth that were

> drilled down lie on the meridian connecting the stomach and

> intestine and now I have a bigger problem to deal with and must

> extract those teeth out!!

>

>

For what it's worth, my crowns were $1300.00 each - which involved removing the

amalgam filling, cleaning the tooth, molding the tooth, fitting the temporary

and the crown itself (plus whatever else I've forgotten). I've never had a

bridge so this is as close as I can give for a comparison. I had to have 5 or 6

crowns so it was pretty pricey, including the revisions that didn't need crowns.

I have been following your story and I have to say that it sounds like you've

been put through the wringer. Personally, I would not go back to that dentist.

Even though I live in the US, there are only two biologic/mercury-free dentists

within a two-hour drive from me. I had a couple of visits with the closer

one--for cleanings, so that I could decide how I felt about him. After that I

decided it was worth driving the further dentist to go to somebody I can truly

trust. It was always an ordeal, between the commute and the revision work, but

I have never regretted it. She (the better but further away dentist) insisted

on compatibility testing beforehand and so I never had any adverse reactions.

Two years later, everything is still holding up just fine.

I do hope that you can find someone else that will be able to help you recover

from this situation. At least you already know the best way to chelate, so once

you get past the revisions things should go better.

[Guest guest]

> For what it's worth, my crowns were $1300.00 each - which involved

removing the amalgam filling, cleaning the tooth, molding the tooth,

fitting the temporary and the crown itself (plus whatever else I've

forgotten).

Hi. May I ask what materials are generally used in crowns? Are these

materials okay for those planning to chelate? Thank you.