A toothbrush, a tube of toothpaste, and a roll of dental floss only cost a few dozen yuan in total. By practicing good oral hygiene, we can avoid major dental problems. Such a fee is simply unbelievably cheap.
Next, when baby teeth are replaced with permanent teeth, there is a technique called fluoride application. This process can cost tens to hundreds of dollars, and regular application of fluoride to the surface of the tooth can improve the resistance to tooth decay. Although it costs money, it is the first step to saving money.
When the teeth have just erupted and there are no cavitiesPit and fissure sealing is an option. This process can cost anywhere from tens to hundreds of dollars. By performing pit and fissure sealing, we can prevent the occurrence of occlusal cavities to a certain extent.
If you don't do the above because you don't want to spend money, then your teeth will slowly decay. When the tooth first starts to break, we only need to remove the decay part and fill the tooth, which may cost only a few tens of yuan. A filling costs only a few tens of yuan, and it can be used for at least five or six years, so the average cost per day is almost negligible.
If this opportunity is missed, the cavities will continue to deepen, and filling the teeth alone is no longer enough, and a dental restoration, known as inlays, will be required. This process can cost anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand yuan, which is already a bit expensive.
If left untreated, tooth decay can spread to the deeper nerves, causing excruciating pain. This is where a root canal is required**It usually costs from a few hundred to thousands of dollars.
But that's not all, most of the teeth need to be crowned after the root canal**. Cheap crowns may cost a few hundred yuan, while expensive crowns may cost thousands of dollars, which may be a large amount.
If you are again unwilling to spend money on the above**, then you will have to have a tooth extraction. Tooth extraction is not expensive, usually only a few hundred dollars, but follow-up problems are unavoidable.
Tooth extractions are followed by dental prostheses, and there are many different ways to do them. At present, the best method is dental implants, which generally cost tens of thousands of yuan, which is very expensive! But, no way, who let us squander our God-given teeth?
If you feel that it is too expensive to have a dental prosthesis, then there will be other problems with tooth decay, which will start to form a vicious circle, at which time the cost will be proportional to the number of teeth decayed, and it will become more expensive.
What the? Do you deeply feel the inconvenience of missing teeth and want to have a dental prosthesis? In some cases, orthodontics can be done first to restore the tooth to its pre-missing state before the prosthesis. Of course, orthodontics also requires a fee.
If it continues to deteriorate, when the back teeth are missing and do not have prostheses for a long time, we can only chew food through the front teeth, and the front teeth cannot withstand the force of chewing, so they will be worn very low, resulting in an imbalance in the bite distance, and the joints will also have problems, so we need to look at the cost of joint diseases.