Need Wisdom Teeth Pulled No Insurance!!!!!

You are looking at about 600 dollars in surgery without general anestesia. With the added sleep you can figure 1500 dollars. If you can hang on or come up with a payment plan where you pay for the anesthesia first and then slowly pay for the tooth extractions. That is how I would recommend doing it. I would also take the chance to get all 4 out while under the anesthesia!

Note: I am terrified of the dentist and pay for general anesthesia for even regular root canals! It is something the good ole us navy did to me. They were basically standing on my chest to get 1/2 of one wisdom tooth out and the nerve blocks done on the inferior alveoler (bottom jaw nerve) do not work on me for what ever reason and I was transported from boone naval medical/dental clinic to portsmouth naval medical hospital by ambulance to have the other 3 1/2 wisdoms done under full general anesthesia. I spen 2 days in the hospital and it could have all be eliviated had they listened to me and put me to sleep to begin with.

I totally believe you need to have your wisdoms extraced but I also believe you sould do everything you can to be knocked out. :)

Fortunately in recent month me and my spouse have had to visit dental specialist.
Today I went to a oral surgeon to have all my wisdom teeth remove and two of them were impacted with one of them a bony vertical impaction. I have insurance which is not very helpful for major work.
It was an extremely painless, 0 trauma work. I have been extremely satisifed with everything.
I was given iv (general anesthesia). Even the iv didn't hurt, becuase thay had some spray which made my skin so cold I couldn't feel the needle being inserted in me. I have absoltely no recollection of what was done. Infact immediate after that I went to costco to pick up prescription and I don't remember things I did or said. Between the time of start of iv and my first slee, I remember very little things.
Without insurance the whole thing costed me $950., with 20% discount for dentalselect insurance $740, if they accept it.
Plus thge medication prescribed lortab, which makes the post surgical time painless and better.
Remember after removal, eat extremely soft foods, without chewing, if you have to use front teeth. Do not suck, if you have stitches it hurts (i did that once by mistake). No eating hot foods, use some ice packs regularly and don't gargle (swish rinse). Do this you might end up with a dry socket, whcih can be very painful. I am hoping I won't have one.

If you want to know, I went to smoot center (dr. Smoot oral surgeon). I don;t have price estimates in florida. But I would recommdn going to roal surgeon, because they specialize in this stuff. If he/she is a good doctor, they will call for an initial exam, check you panoramic x-rays, give you special insructions and documentation and give you an estimate.

I had a very pleasant experience with it. I am a student, it costed with close to $800, it is worth every penny I spent. Removal of wisdom teeth does not have to be a traumatic experience, especially now a days.

I'm getting all 4 wisdom teeth pulled out.

The top 2 are simple extractions
1 of the bottom ones is a "surgical extraction".
The last one is partially impacted.

I am just doing local anesthesia.

The total price is $900. Ins. Is covering half.


I live in a small city where the cost of living is about average compared to other mid-sized metro areas.

Am I getting ripped off or does this price sound about right?

I'm going to law school in the fall and am desperately trying to save money for the move. $450 out of pocket isn't helping the cause but I know it needs to be done before I go to school. I just want to make sure i'm not paying more than I have to.

Thx!

If you have a university which includes a school of dental surgery in your area, you may be able to have it done there at minimal cost. That's how I had mine done many years ago. All four were impacted, but I had it done under local anasthetic -- but that is surgical local, not ordinary dental local. I didn't feel a thing. They also gave me a shot of valium because I was extremely nervous. I guess it was a final year dental surgeon student or something who did it, but he was totally competent, and I didn't even have any swelling after the surgery. I took two days off, because I was on painkillers, and when I went back to classes no one believed i'd just had all my wisdom teeth out.

If the teeth can be pulled out - as apposed to cut out - then it's a job anybody with a shot of novicain and the right tool can do. Any dental student could do it. They just grab it with this plier-like tool and wiggle it until it comes out.
I don't know anything about the whole surgical thing, why they do it, etc, except I know they remove it surgically when it hasn't grown in. I don't know why else they would do it surgically.
Go and get an exame at your local dental school and at least they can tell you there what you need.

I just had all 12 teeth cut out and some pulled out with a full upper and lower denture made here in nc and it only costed me 1645.00 and thats without insurance he only charges 75 per tooth to pull them and 100.00 to cut them out.

I got my tooth extracted, it cost 250.00 dollars, a hundred forx rays and 150 for the extraction, the best money spent! I had to teeth that hurt but only one was bad they called it referred pain.

Hourlove2003, how can I get in contact with your dentist???