 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | Gary,
Implants CAN be wildly expensive IF you have an insurance company that doesn't consider them a medical neccessity. Letters from my ENT and my dentist convinced my insurance that I needed my teeth, so implants were approved. Did the HBO, etc., now just waiting for the right time. Insurance companies are coming around slowly to the world of dental implants, I hope some day it won't be such a battle to put our mouths back as close to normal as possible. Insurance will pay for a womans breast to be reconstructed but not for dental implants?? Crazy.
Minnie
SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.
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