Warning : This is very long, but I think worth reading. If not, please skip to near the end.
This review has been a long time coming (over two years) but, to excuse myself, I have recommended Laney Dental to everyone I have met with dental and denture problems.
It began in early summer 2023 when a four tooth bridge, very expensive, fell out after a long time. I had 18 teeth at the time and it was on my eating side. So the only things I could eat were things like oatmeal.
This is when the process taking about two months started.
Other than recommending two prosthodontists my dentist ( I'd had him for 17 years and liked him a lot) seemed unwilling to help any further, probably justifiably.
They were terrible recommendations.
I spent about $850 on two negative and depressing consultations. One gave me four options starting with just dentures and ending with a lot of implants to hold dentures and costing an estimated $88,000. Since I'm in my 70s, that wasn't going to happen.
Both told me I'd be very unhappy with just dentures.
My impression was that they were both a....holes only interested in money.Won't say anymore except they both practice in south Everett, one has a Chinese last name and the other a German one. In no way would I recommend either, even to my worst enemy.
Sorry about the long post, but feel it's important to describe my whole journey.
Pretty depressed and desperate by now, and not eating much. Now, the much better stuff starts.
I finally thought of a dentist who had briefly worked at my dentist's off ice, Dr Yerra in Woodinville ( very, very highly recommend). She was about 18 miles away but gave me a very quick appointment.
She basically, very kindly and sympathetically, told me that my mouth was a basket case. She then changed my life. She strongly urged me to go and see Laney Dental.
I'll start with what should be my last comment of the post - Laney Dental is superlative.
All members of staff are wonderful. Jada, the receptionist is kind, responsive, helpful and accommodating. Skylar, Jayson's daughter,is also very kind, helpful and knowledgeable (also quite amusing). I didn't meet Christian, Jayson's son, but in this environment he can't be anything other than superb.
Now to Jayson, the Dad who treated me throughout.
It was the first time in a long time that anyone had been positive and it lifted my spirits incredibly.
First, he scanned my mouth with a wand and showed me a picture of my mouth on a computer screen - not pretty. His equipment is top rate. I'd been expecting an unpleasant impression.
Again he was very positive and said he could help. Not in a smarmy way (like you get a lot in the dental business) but understated and reassuring - realistic.
He talked me through some of the negatives of dentures, very helpful in hindsight, like my biting pressure with dentures would be a lot less than real teeth ( not that my real teeth were much good anymore) and that initially I would find it difficult to eat bread- who knew?
Then came the process of having my teeth taken out, not by him of course, which took several weeks and was unpleasant as you'd expect.
Jayson did everything he said he would do including having the dentures at the dentist's office on time for immediate replacement after the teeth removal.
I saw him two days later where he thoroughly examined me and put in a temporary liner. That started six months of aftercare, gums gradually shrink, which included new temporary liners every two months, culminating in a permanent liner six months later.
The aftercare was included in the initial cost, about $5600 as I remember, that I paid in two installments. This may seem expensive, I don't know what others charge, but I consider it a bargain for the results I got. And that was it. After six months not a penny in upcharges.
In the same vein, at six months I told him that food didn't taste as good with a full upper palate. He'd told me months before how he'd reduced the palate for someone but I didn't think it was feasible for me with so much bone loss. I'd been told for about 20 years that I had a lot of bone loss. Again positively, he told me I had plenty of bone and did I want to do it. I said yes and would pay to have the palate restored if it didn't work. He said it was recorded and could put it back any time.
He then said he could do it immediately, which he did in about 20 minutes. When leaving, I asked Jada how much I owed. Jayson was walking past and said "no charge".
The palate removal has been a game-changer in my everyday enjoyment of food.
So that's it, if you want a superb set of naturally looking dentures (no white tombstones here) I urge you to go here.
I don't remember one negative experience during the whole process.
I'm also sure that they will see you very quickly and conveniently to you, something I still can't work out how they manage to do.
Sorry about the length of this, just felt you needed to know it all.
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