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OT on IRAQ
NOYB wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... John H wrote: On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:52:06 -0500, Harry Krause wrote: NOYB wrote: "basskisser" wrote in message m... "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. The posts were something like $125 each...titanium. This was six or seven years ago. I wasn't shopping, but I was curious about the procedure. The procedure is no fun, especially if they have to do a "sinus lift." John H On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay! I have no idea what a sinus lift is...care to elucidate? When there's not enough bone left in the maxilla (upper arch) to place an implant of sufficient length, the surgeon lifts the membrane at the floor of the sinus, and places bone grafting material (cadaver, autogenous, bovine, synthetic, etc) iunderneath the membrane in the space he/she created. This gives the surgeon enough bone thickness to place a sufficiently long implant in the area...so that it doesn't protrude into the sinus space. Oh..cadaver, definitely...that's the way to do it. |
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