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| - Two days before my Panama Canal cruise I bit into a piece of chicken that had a bone in it. It snapped off one of my implants near the front of the mouth so I needed to have the gap filled temporarily at least, by having them add a tooth to my partial upper denture. Dr. Lilly told me it is impossible to pull out the broken screw of the implant so he will have to cut all around the implanted insert to remove the implant, fill the hole in the upper jaw with artificial bone, wait for it to solidify, then re-do the whole implant process. It would be a big deal with lots of pain so he would have to use general anesthesia and the removal would cost $2,300. The cost of a new implant would be in addition to this. Well, they added a flimsy tooth to the implant that lasted three days but I carried crazy glue with me because it looked so flimsy and it broke off twice more before becoming irreparable. Before leaving the office, I was sent to the collections office to talk to Mercedes, who was very pleasant and told me the whole procedure as of that time would be $290.00, which I paid in its entirety by credit card. After returning from my cruise I found an invoice from Dental Specialty Associates for $527.00 in addition to the $290 I had already paid them. I called them to tell them I would not pay, since they asked for $290 in full payment before I left their office. The total had grown to $817.00 now, for a temporary tooth on the partial denture including $145 for an X-ray. I was furious and the new girl who talked to me offered to write it off but no way was I ever going back to that place. I went to the dentist in Los Algodones who had done the original implant, adjacenet to Yuma. The Mexican implant specialist took out the old screw in 10 minutes and sent me to his sister who I started out with, for the final crown. The Mexicans took several X-rays for free (all their X-rays are free and done in the same dental chair where they work on you. I had to wait a couple of weeks for the parts and a new crown. When it was all dione, my total cost was $150.00. One hundred and fifty dollars. That was for the special screw that took them two weeks to make. My dentist in Los Algodones is Dra. Erika Medina, and her brother the implant specialist is Dr. Luis Medina. Their offices are always full of Americans and Canadians and actually, Dr. Erika Medina was born in Los Angeles. I don't know how else to say this but I am convinced that American dentists are crooks. They take classes on how to overcharge patients and the people at Dental Specialty Associates must have been valedictorians at that class. I really hate people who try to take advantage of me and cheat me.
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