Originally Posted By: Ducked
Originally Posted By: Kira
Yeah,
1) Wear factor of the old one.
2) Changes to the tooth when they go to clean it up for reinstallation.
Are the dental labs in Taiwan (where you are, right?) as good as "home". I think you're working abroad, right?
Dunno. I've got no real way of making that comparison. Dentists vary a lot in both places, probably, but they are cheaper here than in the UK and American coworkers tell me A LOT cheaper than in the US.
The failed one was done on a visit to the UK about 5 years ago, so didnt last that well. IIRC it was about 300 quid after UK National Health Service coverage (which strictly speaking I wasn't entitled to but bluffed). That's a bit more than Taiwan, but HI doesn't cover crowns here (considered to be cosmetic) so the actual difference is greater.
I had one done at the local teaching hospital (30% more expensive) about 3 years ago which has been OK so far, but they weren't open when I lost the crown and I wanted it looked at ASAP.
May go back to them for installation/re-installation.
Consultation this afternoon, with an x-ray and a bit of a clean-up of the stump was 100NT ($3.33) with Taiwan Govt Health Insurance.
Not sure what the difference is, but when I worked in a dental office years ago, when they came off, the dentist would just re-cement it back on. I'm not sure he even charged because back then a crown was in the $500 range which was a long time ago and that included all the work so as someone else was saying, he may have just done it as part of warranty work or just part of a regular office visit which back then was around $40, that's probably more like $100+ nowadays.