im not sure what to do about this. I have baby teeth, so instead of braces i decided to give lumeneers a try. If anyone is familiar with them, they are tooth cover, but not like crown, vaneers are like crowns, that require the tooth to be shaved off, and a crown is put on. This is the reason i went with lumeneers instead. Even their site says "prepless tooth process"
I put these on about 3 years ago, 10 lumeneers, 6 top 4 bottom. price was $10,000+ they told me i have to pay everything up front, and then after the work is done, they send everything to my insurance company and they will rein bust me. They even stated in the email to me that they called the insurance company and they told me that all the work is covered, and once im done ill get my money back within 4-6 weeks
well 2 months went by and i got one check from my insurance company for $140 or something, and even that was in the doctors name, so i had to come in, for them to write me a new check to me.
Anyhow, i never got my money back from my insurance company, and them telling me that i will get the money back, i pulled all the money i could out of my credit cards, maxed my finances out, and everything out of my savings. Since i never got any of it back, i was in a struggle for a while, i kept debating if i should go to court for this or let it go, back and forth.
i emailed them back before about the situation, and how i was thinking about going to court because they lied to me, and if there is anything they can do to help me with my finances, but i was pretty much told tough luck!
Now 3 years later my front tooth broke off while eating steak. This is another big reason why i didnt want to do any prep work to my tooth, in case one brakes off, my baby teeth wont look even smaller. So it broke off, even tho it was a bit embarrassing, i dealth with it for about 1-2 months before deciding to call that same dentist who lied to me, knowing i would have to pay upfront about $1,000 to get that a new lumeneer cover for that front tooth.
I made an appointment, I came in, they checked it all out, started cleaning and such. Well, then he started grinding my tooth, i asked him what he was doing, and he said he was just cleaning up the tooth from them glue cement stuff, im all ok, but the process was taking a while, and i could smell the tooth drilling type of smell, like a tooth is being shaved off, enamel is being removed, this shouldnt be happening with "cleaning" I kept thinking if this is them trying to pay me back for "threatening" to sue them for lying to me? but i kept reassuring myself that its just cleaning, im thinking to much, so i told myself ill check it out at home and it will be all good. They made a new mold of the tooth, took some pictures, and i went off home with a new appointment in a month to put the new lumeneer tooth cover on.
So i get home, and what do you know!! my tooth is shaved up, about 10% is shaved off!!!! and my tooth was made thinner, and it was made to look crooked, it was small before ok, but it was at least squared, now it was distorted, thinner, enamel shaved. I got so angry, i didnt want to go into public, i felt humiliated and felt like i was taken advantage of.
Since i already prepaid for the new tooth cover, i didnt want to raise a big deal over it because i just wanted to get the new cover back on asap! i figured ill give it a month and maybe it will be all good, maybe things will get better, maybe they have a reason for what they did, but i was still angry they didnt tell me, or ask me if its ok to shave off because they had to for some weird reason.
So i went in for the new appointment for my new crown, as much as i wanted to say something, i stayed calm, waited for my new tooth cover, didnt say much to them, kept thinking on how i should ask them about this situation and what reason would they give me. I had my phone with me, and my phone has a voice recorded, so i decided this will be really useful.
after 2-3 hours everything was done and i have decided to ask him about the tooth, and why it was shaved off a few weeks ago when i came in for the new cover. HE SAID HE DIDNT TOUCH IT!!!
here is picture of the tooth before and after, and also the recording of the short conversation. also included their site Sacramento Cosmetic Dentist where they say "there is no tooth removal beforehand" and "In most cases little or no tooth reduction is necessary" i wouldnt go with a lumeneer if i knew my tooth needed to be reduced, shaved, drilled.
please tell me what you guys think.
before and after picture, noticed how they made my tooth smaller, more distorted and crooked.
here is the recorded conversation
http://s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii153/Shelby916/?action=view¤t=Movie.flv
I put these on about 3 years ago, 10 lumeneers, 6 top 4 bottom. price was $10,000+ they told me i have to pay everything up front, and then after the work is done, they send everything to my insurance company and they will rein bust me. They even stated in the email to me that they called the insurance company and they told me that all the work is covered, and once im done ill get my money back within 4-6 weeks
well 2 months went by and i got one check from my insurance company for $140 or something, and even that was in the doctors name, so i had to come in, for them to write me a new check to me.
Anyhow, i never got my money back from my insurance company, and them telling me that i will get the money back, i pulled all the money i could out of my credit cards, maxed my finances out, and everything out of my savings. Since i never got any of it back, i was in a struggle for a while, i kept debating if i should go to court for this or let it go, back and forth.
i emailed them back before about the situation, and how i was thinking about going to court because they lied to me, and if there is anything they can do to help me with my finances, but i was pretty much told tough luck!
Now 3 years later my front tooth broke off while eating steak. This is another big reason why i didnt want to do any prep work to my tooth, in case one brakes off, my baby teeth wont look even smaller. So it broke off, even tho it was a bit embarrassing, i dealth with it for about 1-2 months before deciding to call that same dentist who lied to me, knowing i would have to pay upfront about $1,000 to get that a new lumeneer cover for that front tooth.
I made an appointment, I came in, they checked it all out, started cleaning and such. Well, then he started grinding my tooth, i asked him what he was doing, and he said he was just cleaning up the tooth from them glue cement stuff, im all ok, but the process was taking a while, and i could smell the tooth drilling type of smell, like a tooth is being shaved off, enamel is being removed, this shouldnt be happening with "cleaning" I kept thinking if this is them trying to pay me back for "threatening" to sue them for lying to me? but i kept reassuring myself that its just cleaning, im thinking to much, so i told myself ill check it out at home and it will be all good. They made a new mold of the tooth, took some pictures, and i went off home with a new appointment in a month to put the new lumeneer tooth cover on.
So i get home, and what do you know!! my tooth is shaved up, about 10% is shaved off!!!! and my tooth was made thinner, and it was made to look crooked, it was small before ok, but it was at least squared, now it was distorted, thinner, enamel shaved. I got so angry, i didnt want to go into public, i felt humiliated and felt like i was taken advantage of.
Since i already prepaid for the new tooth cover, i didnt want to raise a big deal over it because i just wanted to get the new cover back on asap! i figured ill give it a month and maybe it will be all good, maybe things will get better, maybe they have a reason for what they did, but i was still angry they didnt tell me, or ask me if its ok to shave off because they had to for some weird reason.
So i went in for the new appointment for my new crown, as much as i wanted to say something, i stayed calm, waited for my new tooth cover, didnt say much to them, kept thinking on how i should ask them about this situation and what reason would they give me. I had my phone with me, and my phone has a voice recorded, so i decided this will be really useful.
after 2-3 hours everything was done and i have decided to ask him about the tooth, and why it was shaved off a few weeks ago when i came in for the new cover. HE SAID HE DIDNT TOUCH IT!!!
here is picture of the tooth before and after, and also the recording of the short conversation. also included their site Sacramento Cosmetic Dentist where they say "there is no tooth removal beforehand" and "In most cases little or no tooth reduction is necessary" i wouldnt go with a lumeneer if i knew my tooth needed to be reduced, shaved, drilled.
please tell me what you guys think.
before and after picture, noticed how they made my tooth smaller, more distorted and crooked.
here is the recorded conversation
http://s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii153/Shelby916/?action=view¤t=Movie.flv
