Implant Surgery?

If somebody knows a good dental insurace plan which covers implant surgery, please refer me to it. Implant surgery here costs around $ 5000. I live in Cleveland, OH.

Implant Surgery?
I do not believe that you will find implants covered under any conventional dental plan. The thing is, it is such an expensive procedure that it can not be included in the plans without raising premiums to such a high level that nobody would be able to afford dental insurance either. You might have a medical expense plan or medical reimbursement plan available where you work or you might have a high deductible health insurance that would allow you to create a Health Savings Account (HSA) so you could at least pay for the procedure with pre-tax dollars.





As far as Steven's comment that 80% of implants fail within five years, I frankly challenge that statement as I believe it to be false. I would like you to edit your answer with at least one reference from a reputable journal that supports this claim. If you exclude smokers, I can find you any number of studies that show 95% success and better over five years. So can you, if you just search using "dental implant failure." I would suggest that operator skill is also a major factor in success rate of dental implants and perhaps the surgeon who quoted the 80% failure rate was not experiencing great success in his own practice. This does not mean that implants are a losing proposition. I am not a big fan of "immediate load implants," as their failure rate is a bit higher, but even they seem to hold up in the 85-90% range.
Reply:Before you invest in impants, you might want to do some serious research. over 80% of implants fail within 5 years. The whole idea of drilling into your jawbone and implanting a screw in socket and hoping the bone heals up just right so that several weeks later they can screw a fake tooth in, is beyond me. Oh and my oral surgeon gave me the failure rate figures on implants. Stick with a bridge or crown, they last longer and are less expensive and dont require surgery, or a hole cut into your jaw.





I apologize to the learned doctor below, i did indeed mistype i had meant to say 80% success rate overall past 5 years, which i can show the studies for on the internet. of course smoking does increase the risk, but then again if you lost a tooth due to decay , then youre also much more likely to have a failure as it is expected that you sudeny become and avid brusher and flosser after the implant which is why you probably lost the tooth in the first place. I will also say there is a lot of conflictinginformation among the dental professionalsit seems. i have spoken with dentists who swear that root canal therapy RCT is safe and effective. and ive tlked to dentists who say RCT is nothing more than a breeding ground for the infections to spread. and personaly ive recently had two root canals doe one got so bad that we had to do an extraction afer the root canal, and the tooth broke during the extraction which ended up with me and the oral surgeon doing a little tete a tete. ( #19 doc) and on the opposite side (#30) my root canal was almost effortless. My sister just recently had a massive infection and had t have her gums sliced into just under the nose because of a massive infection from her upper front tooh when the post that had ben implanted years earlier broke through the root tip. after removing the nfected material the oral surgeon gave her thre options as he said ther nfection will eventually come back. the tooth can be extracted, and either a bridge, a partial denture or an implant could be done. but again thi second oral surgeon rccomnded against the implant stating that youll be back for a new implant in 10 years maximum. no im sure that non diabetic, non smoking extremely hygenic people with perfect bones (type IV i think?) would indeed have a bter rejection rates. some of us arent that lucky. And it does seem that a ot of dentists seem to push implants , which leads me to the belief that perhaps pushing the most expensive option all the time might be a little misleading perhaps?