Brent Wehner DDS

So this really depends on the condition of the jaw bone. Is there infection present? Is there sufficient bone to retain an implant, or are bone grafts required? So it is hard to answer fully without seeing the condition and amount of jaw bone present. There is a procedure called all-on-4 that you might be interested in. The idea is you walk into the office with all of your teeth, and you walk out with your teeth removed, all implants placed, and a temporary denture screwed into the implants. So you are never without teeth. All the healing is done while you have your implanted denture in your mouth. All-on-4 is becoming more and more popular, due to fact that you are never without teeth, and all of the surgical procedures are accomplished at the same time. Hope this helps. Brent Wehner DDS

WOW that is a good question. There really are so many variables person to person. Lets start with a basic one, did you know that there are two types of implants, designed for different things, with costs that vary from 400 to 2000 per implant? But I'll try to shoot for a average person in this example. Someone comes in with bad teeth/no teeth on the top jaw. Lets say 4 impants are placed at 2000 per implant. Okay now you have 4 implants, but what are they connected to? A denture? A bridge? Costs vary wildly just with those two options. However like we said lets look at an average cost for an average person. In this example, costs should be 10-14K for this person with implants connected to a new snap in denture. Hope that helps. Brent Wehner DDS

No is the short answer. The longer answer is that some people elect to be sedated, but on the other side some people really don't want sedation if it can be avoided. Some Doctors are more comfortable with placing implants on people who are sedated, while others Doctors don't mind it either way. We do not insist on sedation for implant placement. Hope that helps. Brent Wehner DDS