Caviatation surgery is very fast (it takes about
30-50 minutes maximum for one or two teeth at once). I wouldn't recommend more than one tooth, at first, just because you may get too anxious.
And they do spread infections, somehow (I used imprinted crushed teeth as nosodes).
It costs as much as pulling a tooth, plus a bit more for the cleansing. My lyme doctor was with me, so I had to pay double charges (the surgeon + lyme dr expenses). But it was doable.
The ACTUAL procedure is simple: anethetics, wait a couple of minutes, sometimes the surgeon will cut a bit the flesh, sometimes not, then he pulls the tooth off, in very few minutes if the tooth does not have crazy roots (one of mine had, most of them came out easily, they're dead, not too strong).
It takes less than 5 minutes for taking of the tooth. Then he has to clean the area, first with a little spoon, then with the drilling device. The HARDEST part is for him to KNOW where to clean, as the human eye cannot see infection.
He must have some energetic type of device or whatever means to find where to clean, where to drill, I mean. It takes then about
15-30 minutes for that cleaning. Then you are DONE! It's as simple as that.
People tell horror stories AFTER surgery: infection spread etc. I never had real problems after, because I was treated with homeopathy before and after surgery. My lyme doc is a master on that procedure, has done those surgeries for more than 2 decades now.
I hadn't got an implant though, so yours may be harder (as the surgeon will have to extract the screw from the bone). No surgeon likes to do that. They already hate to
open an old root canal....
The price is not high: what is high is what you do after: implant (for you not a choice), so partials? Bridges? These are what costs money. You got to wait maybe 4 months though, until the wound and bone are healed.
I paid about
3,500 euro for one partial, the other was one the 4,500 euro, I think. It's made from the purest gold possible, because that was one of the metals I am not allergic to (by miracle)... Other alloys may cost less. Mine was done in Switzerland, very high quality. The first was done about
11 years ago, and it is still very good, perfect. The second was done later, about
2-3 years ago, so far, no problem.
If you use removable partials, it's like a one-time expense: because in case you need to do more cavitation or lose more teeth for whatever reasons, you just use the same structure, and it does not cost much to add a tooth to it.
Plus, you don't have trouble on cleaning the teeth under (as you can remove it, not like a fixed bridge that accumulates dirt).
The disadvantages are 2: you can see some of the metals when you smile (if the missing teeth are in front), and it is not as stable as a bridge or implant.
Post Edited (Jinna) : 7/3/2017 11:12:30 AM (GMT-6)