This, by the way, beginning with the endodontist, the 2 "normal" dental appointments (one that started this mess and one that told me the #4 tooth was split), the oral surgeon, and the new dentist who is going to install the dental implant, when the cavity is ready, is tres cher. I paid $6,000 to the oral surgeon's office and my insurance brought it down to $5,000 and I'm going to owe the dentist who follows up another $5 grand, as he also has to put a crown on the #3 tooth and fix a cavity under an old filling on the #5 tooth. And I lucked out in NOT needing a root canal from the endotontist, because that would be been another $2,600 I was told.
So, $10,000 down the tubes for a complete "remodeling" of my upper right teeth and I have a bad feeling that this is going to keep happening over and over.