Two words. Private Equity.
Large private equity companies have infested the full-mouth dental implants market buying up clinics left and right to the point we are now the last established full-mouth implant center in the Dallas area not involved with corporate dentistry.
These Private equity companies have decided to capitalize on the full-mouth dental implant trend marking up the cost of this procedure drastically. A lot of the increase in fees is also purely administrative. You can do a job search online for some of these large chain dental implant and denture centers/clinics. They have sales positions starting at well over 6 figures plus commission. Most of the time when you go in for visits at these offices you will get very little time with the actual doctor. Your time will be spent talking with the "treatment coordinator" who will upsell you on their different packages and sell you into doing surgery with them.
Because we are not involved in private equity we cut the bureaucratic middleman entirely which results in huge savings straight to our patients, often at half of our competitor's fees. No business executives, no outside investors, and no salespeople marking up the cost of the procedure double what we charge.
One other downside of private equity's involvement in this sector of dentistry is the reduction in product quality. Rather than focus on using their deep pockets to improve the quality of the restorative materials they downgraded to achieve larger profit margins and provide no guarantees or warranties to their patients.
The majority of Full mouth implant products are either made of acrylic (plastic) which is very prone to breakage or solid monolithic zirconia which is heavy, clanky, and places excessive force on the implants which leads to earlier implant failure.
Instead, for our product, we use a shock-absorbing bar that mimics our natural teeth. Our teeth have something called a periodontal ligament which gives teeth some give and flexure during biting forces. This is in stark contrast to dentures and zirconia which are very static and rigid. The shock-absorbing material we use is also virtually unbreakable and has been used for decades in orthopedic medicine for hip replacement. However, despite its unbreakable strength, it is only a fraction of the weight of monolithic zirconia which makes it much more suitable for long-term implant health.