How much did you pay for your child's braces?

[Anonymous]

These orthodontist are making a mint!

[Anonymous]

7k no insurance

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! What kind of insurance do you people have? My lifetime coverage is $1000. I pick up the rest of the 8or 9K braces cost.

if you change dental plans every year, you can use the new "lifetime 1000" benefit toward the balance of the braces. That's how most of my kids braces cost was paid.

Is the lifetime benefit per person? or per policy?

Per person.

Certain plans have no waiting period. That's what we had to do -- my son had to do 2 phases and after exhausting one lifetime benefit we had to switch and use the second. Overall I think we paid somewhere around $5k.

[Anonymous]

With insurance, we paid out of pocket $5,100 for Invisalign.

[Anonymous]

We paid just under 8,000 for 18 months of braces.

That included 3 sets of retainers once braces were removed and 4 followups after the braces - I think at 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, and 1 year. After that, you pay per appointment which they recommend annually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our co-pay is $2,800. I'm wondering if this is good, bad or average.

That’s a normal copay cap.

Phase 1 was $4k, 50/50 insurance and us.

Phase 2 was $6k, insurance paid $2.5k, we paid the rest.

We changed dental insurance plans between to two phases so we’re not affected by the “one coverage per lifetime”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These orthodontist are making a mint!

Especially if you chose Invisilign! Takes $0.50 to make on a 3d printer, no appts necessary, you send in the photos of what set you did, takes twice as long as braces and costs the same. Very high margin.

[Anonymous]

Invisalign was $5000, insurance took care of $2000. Covers all retainers including 3 replacements. We could also switch to regular braces in the first year for no additional cost in case DS didn't manage will with Invisalign

[Anonymous]

$1900, with insurance. Another place quoted us $3200 with insurance..the insurance paid the same at both places but one accepted the insurance negotiated rate and one didn't. We went to a play with excellent reviews but no flash that serves a large low income population


Service has been impeccable. I was turned off by a few places that seemed to treat braces like selling cars. I dont need any of that.

[Anonymous]

total cost was 5K or so and we are paying half with insurance. Palate expander and braces for some crowding in a small mouth. Lots of little steps at each visit to get specific teeth into place, incorporate new teeth as they crop up. Seems good so far.