Are Dental Implants worth the cost?
Dr. Bill Thompson | February 27, 2012Columbus Ohio Dental Implants
Dental implants are the best way to replace missing teeth. Are dental implants worth the cost?
How to justify the cost of dental implants – they last.
Think of how much teeth have to endure. The jaw muscles are extremely powerful, and put tremendous pressure on the teeth from multiple angles. This means whatever a Columbus implant dentist does has to be strong and last a long time. There are few things in life that you could repair that would last twenty years or longer, but dentists do that kind of work every day.
Lastly, dentistry seems expensive because even if you have dental insurance, it doesn’t really cover much most of the time. It’s designed to cover basic care, and the insurance companies are very slow to add new treatments and procedures that they will cover, even if they are found to improve the patient’s health. So many times the patient is the one making up the difference in cost in order to get the kind of dentistry that lasts.
And no matter what you’ll be doing twenty years from now, I guarantee you’ll be eating. And you’ll no doubt want to do it with your own teeth. So if it seems expensive, think about the other things that you spend money on. Do they give you a twenty year value? Will you still be using them every day during those 20 years?
So in the end, taking care of your teeth is an extremely good value. It may seem expensive, but for the use you get out of your teeth, and the lasting quality of good dentistry, it’s probably more than worth the money. In, fact, I think it’s one of the best investments you can make.
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