I got an e-mail from Dr. Niznick, who is President of Implant Direct, LLC, and is a prominent implant dentist in California. I told him about an e-mail I had just received from a prospective patient of the Clear Choice Dental Implant Center in Denver who had been quoted a fee of $44,000 if she paid up front, for a set of dentures and four implants per arch using the all-on-four technique. I asked him if he had ever heard of Clear Choice giving a different treatment plan than extracting all remaining teeth and doing all-on-four dental implants. He did not answer the treatment plan question directly, though he seemed to imply an answer. And he added a comment about the fees. Here’s what he wrote:
“When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. All-on-4 can lead to None-on-3. This is just as bad as the dentists putting in nothing but 2.3mmD mini-implants because that is all they know. At my prices, they could do All-on-12 for the same price.” (Dr. Gerald Niznick)
And here’s what I say about their fees:
All-on-four is a shortcut treatment. It is intended to keep the number of dental implants at a minimum and to avoid bone grafting. It strikes me that Clear Choice fees appear to be competitive with what other dentists would charge for more extensive treatment of the same case, because other dentists would be placing more implants and would be doing bone grafting. But their fees seem to be very high for what they are doing. Most implant dentists charge their fees per implant, so fewer implants mean less cost. That doesn’t seem to be the case at Clear Choice.
– Dr. Hall
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About David A. Hall
Dr. David A. Hall was one of the first 40 accredited cosmetic dentists in the world. He practiced cosmetic dentistry in Iowa, and in 1990 earned his accreditation with the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is now president of Infinity Dental Web, a company in Mesa, Arizona that does advanced internet marketing for dentists.
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