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Implant Design:
For my first entry, let's talk a little about dental implant design. When this technology started, over 50 years ago, there was one basic implant design in the root form catagory and that was Dr. Branemark's threaded, external hex, straight sided dental implant. It has been used for decades with great success. Of course, immediately after Dr. Branemark released his research, everyone went about trying to improve on his design. Needless to say, many of these improvements do not exist today and the original is still here.
To be continued....
Excessive Fees:
I would like to quote from an email
that I recently received from a potential patient. The patient initially
contacted me and asked for an estimate on a particular treatment. I
told him that my total fee would be $28,000.00 and I asked him what kind
of fees he had already encountered. He sent the following:
"Incredible as it may sound, their
initial "asking price"
was $64,000.00. That was the first price given to me by Dr. XXXXXX (the
surgical half of the team). By the time I left his office the price had
been
revised to ONLY $55,000.00 ($30,000.00 for him and $25,000.00 for the
dentist).
I then went to visit Dr. YYYYY, the
dental half. He initially told me that his fee, alone, would be
$64,000.00. He gradually
worked that number down to $32,000.00. Finally, he read the oral
surgeon's email
explaining the details of my visit with him and realized that the oral
surgeon had actually
set his price at $25,000.00. The restorative dentist pretended to a
bit upset that his fee
had been pre-negotiated!
The entire dual consultation seemed
quite
orchestrated.
Your fee seems a lot more in line with
what I was
expecting. I'd like to move to the next level and visit with you to
confirm the
required treatment and finalize pricing."
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 27 February 2010 )
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