Been a patient for implant dentistry since 2005! I needed a complete mouth restoration. I was not able to go through a private dentist as I simply could not afford it. I am now at the last rung of my treatment (hooray) and was told that I still owe $7900. If i pay half they can send the final teeth to the lab and back to me to try on. I manage to scrounge $4000 together (I borrow and put some on my credit card). They have the teeth back from the lab and they look great, I try them on, they are GREAT! They tell me I still owe $5100! I say, NO, I should owe you only $3900. My dentist & I go to the manager's office to go over the bill. She looks through my dentist's folder and sees that he never charged for my lower restoration, so now my bill is $13,000!!! I'm not working, I lost my job 2 years ago. After 9 yrs with these folks they want $13,000 from me. They expect me to pull it out of the air! She tells me the teeth will not leave this building to go to the lab for tweaking until you pay. This is EXTORTION. They telll me maybe they can reduce the bill by 20% bringing it to $11,000. That's still out of my range. I'm NOT WORKING!!!! HELLO!!! My mouth has been photographed, x-rayed, more times that anyone could imagine. I've been told I'm a fascinating case. If that's the case they should be paying ME! for all the teaching opportunity I have given to these people. I will NEVER recommend this place to anyone. I think their billing practices are very shoddy. I don't believe anything they tell me.
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