On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 01:14:00 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

"basskisser" wrote in message
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message
news:Cwp1c.19784
I very much doubt the fee's are 10%. Looked at the prices in Costa
Rica?

Again, I know fact doesn't mean anything to you but:

http://www.cocori.com/library/life/med1.htm

According to your link, implants in Costa Rica cost $750-800. In the
states, they cost $1200-1800. (We're talking about the implant...not
the
abutment, and not the crown). That means they're about 50-65%...not 10%
as
you claimed.



My dentist and friend showed me a catalog of implant posts from some
company with the word "Gold" in its name...or something like that.

Sterngold.

I don't know anybody that uses them, however.


The
posts were something like $125 each...titanium.

They're actually even cheaper than that. About $80-90.

Add another $20 for the impression post, $16 for the analog, $75 for the
UCLA coping, $25 for the healing abutment, $75 for the lab-fabricated
temporary, $50 for the cost of the gold (used with the UCLA coping), and a
lab bill of about $250 for the crown and custom abutment.

That's about $600...and Sterngold is the flat-out cheapest on the market.
The implants my surgeons use are about 3 or 4 times as expensive...the
surfaces aren't machined, but acid-etched...which gives better
osseointegration.


This was six or seven
years ago. I wasn't shopping, but I was curious about the procedure.


Now go back and correct what I told him about a "sinus lift."

Thanks.

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!