I woke up with excruciating tooth pain in the middle of the night. I made an emergency appointment with Aspen Dental and was told I would need a root canal with crown; also was told that all of my old fillings needed to be replaced. Sat me down with the 'Finance Manager'.. Btw. I've never seen a finance department at any other health care organization... Anyway, she told me that with my dental insurance, it would cost me about $1600 out of pocket. Chump change i suppose. So I went home and did some internet research on Aspen Dental and found many complaints, so I got a second opinion. Turns out, I did need root canal, no crown, and needed no fillings replaced. I had one cavity, which was filled, and needed new x-rays done because the ones I retrieved from Aspen were so faint that the new dentist couldn't even read them. He was kind enough to do them for free since Insurance only pays for one set a year and Aspen messed them up. BTW, it was almost impossible to get the x-rays from Aspen after they found out that I was going somewhere else for dental work. Long story short. It cost me $5 copay with new dentist... I saved $1595 by not going to Aspen. They really should be shut down... Preying on innocent people... Scum!!
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