# Let's talk Dentures

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-dentures/1012992>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 15, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-dentures/1012992 "2025-01-15T01:04:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-dentures/1012992/21 "2025-03-03T04:08:54Z")

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> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> My two implants came to around 13k, including the crowns.
> 
> Amount that was covered by insurance: $0.
> 
> Worth it? Absolutely.
> 
> mmm

This is, well, crushing. I think I mentioned this in the O.P.: BOTH times I had a tooth extracted ( same guy ) he asked, " Are you having an implant put in? I need to know now, before I pull it."

Well, fucko, had you TOLD me I’d have bone thinning below an extraction point as time went on and so if I waited I could definitely NOT get an implant then yeah. Screw the cost. Put the …uh…receiving half in right now.

But those conversations did not occur.

I’m pissed over this. In a perverse way, I’m more pissed over those two omissions than I am over a misdiagnosed MRI when I broke my back in Sept of 2000, and man did that do a job on my overall life.

:mad:

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-dentures/1012992/22 "2025-03-03T04:09:59Z")

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> [@liirogue](#):
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> I had to do a bone graft before getting one of my implants and it was far more painful than the implant itself. My face was swollen for a week after.
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> Unfortunately, based on **Cartooniverse’s** last post, it doesn’t sound like an option.

Actually, I’ve not discussed a bone graft with any dental surgeon type-a person.

Will do so. And report back.

Man this sucks.

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**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-dentures/1012992/23 "2025-03-03T15:08:47Z")

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Oh sorry for misinterpreting your post! I hope you can get some good news.

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