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  2. I just had a molar, also broken, crowned last month. My prep session, ending with a temporary, was also two hours.

    So, not fun, but perhaps not out of line.

  3. That’s ridiculous. I’ve had six crowns in the last five years or so, including a double (they were next to each other so the temp had no gap) and none of them took more than an hour. The only two-hour episodes I’ve had were when they combined a crown prep with a scrape job. If she (or an assistant) takes more than 20 minutes to put the permanent in, or uses any lidocaine in the process, you should seriously consider looking for another dentist.

    At our age two-hour sessions are problematic for any number of reasons, including getting back aches as a result. Excuseless.

    1. It was steak. It had been causing me some pain for a few days, which was apparently due to stress from a crack in it. When the lingual side broke off, it actually relieved the pain, because the stress was gone. I think it happened because I’m missing the molar behind it, due to a botched implant that I haven’t taken care of yet, so it’s been bearing too much load for a bicuspid.

  5. I have 14 crowns, 6 veneers, 2 bridges representing 8 teeth, and 4 wisdom teeth lost and gone forever. It’s a wonderful life. Right now, I’m dawdling over having two broken crowns repaired. I think I’m going to have the molar roots pulled, though they say they can do a new post and crown for the lateral incisor. I can hardly wait.

  6. My teeth were really bad. It got so bad earlier this year that I was having trouble eating pizza. Something had to give.

    Then I found out about Los Algodones, Baja California, Mexico. I heard about it from a friend of a friend, and he told me he was very happy with the results. The town is located right where Mexico, California, and Arizona meet, literally a stone’s throw across the canal from Yuma, Arizona. The whole town is geared towards medical tourism. According to Wikipedia, the population is about 5500, yet there are over 550 dental offices there. The competition is intense.

    So I went there at the beginning of April. I had three root canals, two implants, and 24 crowns done. I was in the dentist’s chair for 17 hours spread out over three days. The guy I saw was really good, no pain at all. I now have a Hollywood smile, but the best part was the price: for all that work, and the associated lab work and x rays and so forth, my total cost was US$9800. I couldn’t even have gotten the lab work done for that price in Canada.

    1. Wow, congrats Ed. Thanks for posting this. Not that I could make use of it, without general anesthesia anyway 🙂

    2. Nogales, Arizona is much the same. My wife and I are both having our dental work done there (crowns, implants, etc.). Costs are between 25% and 35% of U.S. rates, all the support staff speaks English, the dentists we’ve used were trained in either the U.S. or Germany, facilities are spotlessly clean, etc.

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