I had four consultations and I selected Clear Choice.
1) Pro: The entire staff projected a friendly atmosphere.
Con: What was discussed at the consultation was different than what I experienced.
A) It hurts after surgery. I was given the impression pain will be minimal.
B) They will correct any problems with their denture that was made improperly. False.
> The denture was never fixed even though I complained multiple times. I felt I was tortured while they were pretending to do modifications that never were fixed.
>The denture causes me to frequent bite my cheeks.
>The Denture is not functional for chewing food. An example of what it is like; you are trying to chew your food when your gum hurts. You chew food very carefully. You feel pressure on your implant while chewing.
You're afraid you might damage your gum while chewing. Your denture constantly feels loose while you're chewing. The food gets jammed in between your gum and denture and it is very uncomfortable. Your taste of food is reduced and you don't enjoy eating as much.
C) They say they will give you a document so that you can submit it to your insurance. Clear Choice does not accept insurance. You must pay for the entire process in advance. The implant and denture cost is at most $55,000.00 The finance option they provide is around $2.50 for every dollar. No bank will give you a loan for medical procedures. Once you submit an insurance claim, you are lucky if you get reimbursed $1,000.00. It takes more than 6 months to be reimbursed.
D) No more gum disease after implant. False. Their Doctor tells you differently.
E) The denture will last a lifetime if you get it cleaned once a year. False. The doctor and her assistant tell you, you need to clean twice a year. Each cleaning costs $350.00.
2) After Consultation
>Once you paid in full, they want you to sign a liability document. Right before you are put to sleep for surgery, the surgeon makes you sign the same document again.
3) After Surgery
> You will have many appointments to get your temporary denture. Again, my denture was never right. You get what they want you to have. That was my experience.
>Final denture is a little better, but I have the same problems as I have mentioned above.
If you are reading this review, I hope you have a better experience than I did. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't have chosen ClearChoice. It was a very expensive mistake.
In late 2012, I had full upper and lower dental implants installed at the ClearChoiice office in Saint Louis, MO. Shortly thereafter I started experiencing problems with nasal congestion. I dismissed it as probably just an allergic reaction.
I have since moved to Florida and the symptoms continued to worsen. I finally decided to consult an ENT doctor to look into this. What he discovered by MRI and Xray was that one of the upper implants had penetrated into my left nasal cavity. This caused a chronic low grade infection and worsening nasal congestion.
I contacted the Saint Louis office and reported this. They sent me forms to complete to authorize the exchnage of medical records. I did this and since then I have had no contact with them. I have sent four letters and made several phone calls. The response was that someone would be in touch with me.
Well that was over 2 months ago and I have received no responser from anyone at ClearChoice.
I paid $38,500 for this work and told them that I was asking for a refund of between $15,000 and $20,000 to have this situation corrected. This was the estimate provided by an oral surgeon and an implant dentist in the local area. I am retired and cannot afford to have this work done. I am not looking for any large sum of money, just some help to have this dental error corrected
I went to clear choice hoping for a solution to my dental needs. The offered me the only treatment plan the offer which is the 'All on four". After high presssure sales tatics, researching and reading a lot of negative reviews, I decided to refuse treatment. That did not stop them from charging $15,000 to my creditors for work that they never did. I am not paying Care credit nor the other. Clear Choice charged them knowing full well I was not going to get their proceedure. The creditors said Clear Choice has to give them the money back or I owe it to them. That's not going to happen. $15,000! No proceedure! wtf! I want the money refunding, I will never give up until they do.
ClearChoice Reviews
I had four consultations and I selected Clear Choice.
1) Pro: The entire staff projected a friendly atmosphere.
Con: What was discussed at the consultation was different than what I experienced.
A) It hurts after surgery. I was given the impression pain will be minimal.
B) They will correct any problems with their denture that was made improperly. False.
> The denture was never fixed even though I complained multiple times. I felt I was tortured while they were pretending to do modifications that never were fixed.
>The denture causes me to frequent bite my cheeks.
>The Denture is not functional for chewing food. An example of what it is like; you are trying to chew your food when your gum hurts. You chew food very carefully. You feel pressure on your implant while chewing.
You're afraid you might damage your gum while chewing. Your denture constantly feels loose while you're chewing. The food gets jammed in between your gum and denture and it is very uncomfortable. Your taste of food is reduced and you don't enjoy eating as much.
C) They say they will give you a document so that you can submit it to your insurance. Clear Choice does not accept insurance. You must pay for the entire process in advance. The implant and denture cost is at most $55,000.00 The finance option they provide is around $2.50 for every dollar. No bank will give you a loan for medical procedures. Once you submit an insurance claim, you are lucky if you get reimbursed $1,000.00. It takes more than 6 months to be reimbursed.
D) No more gum disease after implant. False. Their Doctor tells you differently.
E) The denture will last a lifetime if you get it cleaned once a year. False. The doctor and her assistant tell you, you need to clean twice a year. Each cleaning costs $350.00.
2) After Consultation
>Once you paid in full, they want you to sign a liability document. Right before you are put to sleep for surgery, the surgeon makes you sign the same document again.
3) After Surgery
> You will have many appointments to get your temporary denture. Again, my denture was never right. You get what they want you to have. That was my experience.
>Final denture is a little better, but I have the same problems as I have mentioned above.
If you are reading this review, I hope you have a better experience than I did. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't have chosen ClearChoice. It was a very expensive mistake.
In late 2012, I had full upper and lower dental implants installed at the ClearChoiice office in Saint Louis, MO. Shortly thereafter I started experiencing problems with nasal congestion. I dismissed it as probably just an allergic reaction.
I have since moved to Florida and the symptoms continued to worsen. I finally decided to consult an ENT doctor to look into this. What he discovered by MRI and Xray was that one of the upper implants had penetrated into my left nasal cavity. This caused a chronic low grade infection and worsening nasal congestion.
I contacted the Saint Louis office and reported this. They sent me forms to complete to authorize the exchnage of medical records. I did this and since then I have had no contact with them. I have sent four letters and made several phone calls. The response was that someone would be in touch with me.
Well that was over 2 months ago and I have received no responser from anyone at ClearChoice.
I paid $38,500 for this work and told them that I was asking for a refund of between $15,000 and $20,000 to have this situation corrected. This was the estimate provided by an oral surgeon and an implant dentist in the local area. I am retired and cannot afford to have this work done. I am not looking for any large sum of money, just some help to have this dental error corrected
I went to clear choice hoping for a solution to my dental needs. The offered me the only treatment plan the offer which is the 'All on four". After high presssure sales tatics, researching and reading a lot of negative reviews, I decided to refuse treatment. That did not stop them from charging $15,000 to my creditors for work that they never did. I am not paying Care credit nor the other. Clear Choice charged them knowing full well I was not going to get their proceedure. The creditors said Clear Choice has to give them the money back or I owe it to them. That's not going to happen. $15,000! No proceedure! wtf! I want the money refunding, I will never give up until they do.