[Stainditnew]

It's that time. All four of these suckers are in need of being extracted. I was wondering any of you could recommend some sort of dental insurance that covered wisdom teeth extraction. From my searching, most plans only cover simply (non-impacted) extractions. If you could throw any info my way, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

[rengerts]

I'm pretty sure that my parents' medical insurance covered me when I had my four impacted wisdom teeth extracted. That was a few years ago, though...

Don't you supposedly make a shi*tload peddling syringes and the such? Why bother? Cash patients that pay are usually treated very well by doctors...

[Herimoisige]

I'm guessing that you don't currently have dental insurance of any kind?

Wish I could really help, but I'm not so up on insurance, I just choose the #1 option through work which gets me just about all of the plans + free cleanings every 3 months.

I had my wisdoms extracted (still have the teeth actually) and the total bill was $3xx or something for 3 teeth before ins, but only $60 total after insurance.

Anaesthesia adds big bucks. If you can stand the though of your wisdoms getting pulled while you are awake and aren't too terrified of the dentist just get local. This assumes a normal fully erupted wisdom tooth and not a impacted one. I got local and spent longer waiting for the Novacain to take effect than the extraction itself. It was about 30 seconds a tooth. Open mouth, insert pliers grab tooth, close jaw half way, quick yank and the tooth was out with a dull cracking noise.

From walking in to walking out it was 30 minutes tops.

I don't know why I waited so LONG for this. I should have gotten it done years ago, it would have saved me so much grief. My jaw simply was not big enough for the wisdoms I do have and it caused some bite issues

2 of my wisdoms were fully erupted, 1 was partially erupted but still posed no problem to extraction. All 3 were rotting and had major cavities due to the fact that there wasn't enough room and I couldn't properly clean them with a brush.

This is how bad they looked. Yes, I kept them. Why? cause i'm just like that I guess. I won't [img] them so you only have to see them if you want to click the links.

You can see on the one tooth that there was literally not enough room for the roots to grow so they grew all mashed together.
http://gallery.me.com/thirdgen89gta/...13043685410001

This one shows just how rotted the one tooth was, I broke a chunk of tooth off eating a burrito with NOTHING hard in it. And I didn't feel any pain. I was lucky the root wasn't infected, it would have been extremely painful till the tooth was removed.
http://gallery.me.com/thirdgen89gta/...13043685410001


Much like a Root Canal, the process of getting teeth pulled is often far LESS painful than the pain preceding it. Thankfully in my case I was spared the pain and simply choose to do something I should have years earlier.

[duribass]

Don't you supposedly make a shi*tload peddling syringes and the such? Why bother? Cash patients that pay are usually treated very well by doctors...

200 different types of Syringes and about 15,000 other items

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Thanks for the info, TFO.

All four of mine are impacted, so neither will be a simple extraction. I'm fairly certain I will have to be put under since they'll have to cut a good part of my gums to get to them. I've priced around and it'll cost about $500 per tooth. No worries, I will probably just end up paying cash.

[PhillipHer]

Cash is king
i don't know of any insurance scheme that will pay out for pre-existing conditions that you wan the insurance to cover treament for - may be a good time to make sure you have full coverage, if you feel the premiums are a better option (tax exemptions/rebates, etc?) than just paying cash as required?

[lammaredder]

Cash is king
i don't know of any insurance scheme that will pay out for pre-existing conditions that you wan the insurance to cover treament for - may be a good time to make sure you have full coverage, if you feel the premiums are a better option (tax exemptions/rebates, etc?) than just paying cash as required?

I guess that's pretty much it. I have pretty decent health insurance but they don't cover dental. I'd be more than willing to pay for a good plan that I could keep, but it seems mostly what I find are simply "discount programs" for basic procedures.

[fedelwfget]

I guess that's pretty much it. I have pretty decent health insurance but they don't cover dental. I'd be more than willing to pay for a good plan that I could keep, but it seems mostly what I find are simply "discount programs" for basic procedures.

You could find insurance than would cover the procedure. You would just have to wait a year or two to get that coverage. I am not certain that Gordo is right about "preexisting condition" on wisdom teeth, since everyone has problems with them. But you would have to wait. Would be similar to eyeglasses or such.

Are they hurting or rearranging your teeth? Either way, expect to be codeine loopy for 3-4 days minimum and pray against dry rot

[poispanna]

It's that time. All four of these suckers are in need of being extracted. I was wondering any of you could recommend some sort of dental insurance that covered wisdom teeth extraction. From my searching, most plans only cover simply (non-impacted) extractions. If you could throw any info my way, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

From my experiences extractions is not expensive.
My dental insurance has a 300 Euro own risc, that means whatever happens I pay till 300 Euro and after that insurance will pay the bills.

Anyway a good dentist in Netherlands asks about 40 Euro for an extraction with latest dental tech and a nice stitching of the gums, leaving no hole.

so ask the price at your dentist and say you pay cash.

[Stengapsept]

From my experiences extractions is not expensive.
My dental insurance has a 300 Euro own risc, that means whatever happens I pay till 300 Euro and after that insurance will pay the bills.

Anyway a good dentist in Netherlands asks about 40 Euro for an extraction with latest dental tech and a nice stitching of the gums, leaving no hole.

so ask the price at your dentist and say you pay cash.

I doubt that extractions of impacted wisdom teeth are only 40 Euros. Impacted extractions are much more complicated than a normal type of extraction. I know for a fact that any oral surgeon here in the USA charges MUCH more than $40 if they're impacted. I also know that my regular dentist won't touch impacted teeth. He recommended me to a few surgeons. Quite honestly, I wouldn't want my regular dentist cutting my gums open and giving me anesthetics besides a local type. I'd rather have the experienced maxillofacial surgeon doing that. My surgeries cost the insurance a grand or two each time (had 2 out at a time) probably 5 or 6 years ago. All four were impacted, one of which was made even more difficult because of the position of the tooth with regards to the nerve. My lip was numb for a month or so afterward, but that was expected.

[Loolasant]

When I had mine done back when I was 17, all four out (Impacted all of 'em), A Maxillofacial Surgeon did it under General Anesthesia. Took 45 minutes. Bill was like 3k$.

[flienianO]

I doubt that extractions of impacted wisdom teeth are only 40 Euros. Impacted extractions are much more complicated than a normal type of extraction. I know for a fact that any oral surgeon here in the USA charges MUCH more than $40 if they're impacted. I also know that my regular dentist won't touch impacted teeth. He recommended me to a few surgeons. Quite honestly, I wouldn't want my regular dentist cutting my gums open and giving me anesthetics besides a local type. I'd rather have the experienced maxillofacial surgeon doing that. My surgeries cost the insurance a grand or two each time (had 2 out at a time) probably 5 or 6 years ago. All four were impacted, one of which was made even more difficult because of the position of the tooth with regards to the nerve. My lip was numb for a month or so afterward, but that was expected.

Yes, my family has gone to the same dentist for years now. However he wasn't comfortable doing an extraction on my teeth because he didn't have the full 360* X-Ray machine to get a full map of the jaw. He recomended me to a specialist for that.

The X-ray was needed to determine if there would be any issues with the extraction. Thankfully I was luck in that they were all relatively straight enough that the extraction was a more mundane procedure.


This is what the wrap around X-ray looks like for those who don't know what I'm talking about. Yes, that is my own head, sadly good teeth was not in our genetic lottery, I have to try hard to prevent cavities. Strangly now as an adult I seem to have an easier time of it. Still had 1 root canal, though I do wonder about the other tooth in there with the huge filling.

I had both upper wisdoms removed, and lower wisdom on the right removed.

The lower wisdom on the left simply never grew at all so I was lucky again on that side. I have had 1 root canal which is easy to see.