Stuck with implants from somewhere else?
- Maybe you're still in temporary teeth because the final set cost more than you expected, or nobody told you it was a separate cost.
- Maybe you've lost trust in the office that started your care.
- Maybe you had it done overseas and can't find anyone willing to touch it.
- Or your arch is fifteen or thirty years old and falling apart.
We see all of these often, and far more people are in this spot than most realize.
Refresh or warranty remake?
A warranty remake is work on a Done In One case, under cover you already have. A refresh is a new set of teeth on implants we didn't place. Warranty and coverage.
After interviewing DIO and other Offices, DIO did not push for a deposit, did not try to nail down an appointment but rather let me take some time to decide if it was right for me and when it was to be right for me to have the procedure done.
Keep your implants, get new teeth
We keep your implants and build a new set of teeth on them. You don't start over, and you won't need surgery again unless something is wrong underneath. Most of the time it's the same work we do every week, without the surgery, so there's no recovery.
How it goes
Start with an X-ray
Send us an X-ray and tell us your history. From those two things we can usually tell whether your implants are sound, and that's the question that matters most. Sometimes the exact parts can't be confirmed until we're in there.
The tricky part is usually a small connector, called a multi-unit abutment, between your implant and your teeth. Once yours is a standard part, your case has a digital file and the rest is routine. Parts from companies that have closed, records in another language, implants placed at awkward angles or abutments that are too tall can make a case take longer. None of them has stopped one yet.
One long first appointment
It starts with one long appointment where we take everything apart and see what you have. It's the least exciting visit, and the one that decides everything. You may go home in your current teeth for a day while parts are shipped overnight; if that could happen in your case, we'll tell you before you travel. After that it runs like any other case, often faster, since there's no swelling or healing to wait on.
The honest conversation
Sometimes we find an implant that's failing, or placed in a way that will cause trouble no matter what goes on top. If so, we'll tell you what we see and what it would take to fix. We won't spend your appointment criticizing whoever treated you before, because we don't know their side of the story.
Your new teeth
Many people want essentially the same design done properly. Others change it completely. Either is straightforward once the connection is sorted.
What it costs
A refresh is priced on its own, per arch or for both arches.
The refresh fee is set at your consultation, on the treatment plan you are given that day.
If we find the foundation is the problem, it may become a full new case at a different price. We'll tell you before anything is done.
Once the case is complete, those implants qualify for our Lifetime Warranty, even though we didn't place them. It's a separate membership from the refresh fee: you join by the date of final delivery, at $700 per year for a full mouth or $350 per year per arch, renewed each year. Keep your annual visit, and hygiene the practice judges adequate. If you join and one of those implants fails later, we replace it as if we'd placed it ourselves. Warranty and coverage has the terms.