Estimate needed for dental work, California (apx. amount)?

I just had a lot of dental work done and am wondering if I paid too much. Was wondering what the work should have cost, then I will let you know what I paid. This is without dental insurance or a dental plan. First, an oral surgeon put me to sleep and pulled 7 teeth, all on the bottom, 2 wisdom teeth, 4 molars, 1 regular tooth, put bone graft in the socket holes. A general dentist did root canals on 3 upper teeth, none of which were molars, then put 11 crowns on all upper teeth. 6 of the crowns are Captek which is a high quality gold crown with porcelain on the outside, these 6 are on the front teeth. The other 5 crowns are regular metal crowns with porcelain on the outside, 3 which are molars, 2 regular teeth. I'm supposed to go back and have a partial denture made for the lower arch, for both the left and right side, but if I feel I am being overcharged, I may go somewhere else.

Estimate needed for dental work, California (apx. amount)?
I got to be honest. I can't even imagine what you paid. I know I had a crown replaced, some gum work around that crown, Invisalign, and then a new permanent crown. And that ran me in the thousands.





I know my dad, who never took good care of his teeth, had them basically all yanked out and had dentures put in, he had a dentist friend do it for him and it was about $5000.





If you're dealing with an oral surgeon, yanking teeth, wisdom teeth, bone graft, and 11 crowns. I'm guessing the crowns alone are about $7000. All told, and this is a wild guess, maybe at least $25,000. Unless you got a real good deal.





I'm curious what you did pay. Let us know.
Reply:Sounds like you haven't been going to the dentist that much if you needed all this work. You would probably have to take out a second mortgage no matter where you lived for all that work. I don't live in CA, but I just had to butt in. You've gone this far. Stick with the same dentist.
Reply:Wow!!!! I live in central California (Modesto) and around here you would pay about 20,000 dollars for all that work. But if you live in San Francisco or the Los Angeles area it would be alot higher.