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Dental insurance or no? Cost of a crown?

I had a horrible experience at my last dentist visit because they seemed to delibrately find things wrong with my teeth like the "free brake inspection" ploy. They found reasons for me to have further dental work done from a filling to a crown. Well, after a year of thinking I'm somewhat worried about my front tooth because there is a hairline crack running through it but when x-rayed, it did not show. I have no pain or sensitivity in that tooth. I no longer have dental insurance and all the plans I've looked at require a waiting period of about 12 months until I am partially covered for a crown. I don't want to wait that long because I'm afraid this crack can spread to my root at anytime. I don't know what to do? Are there any alternative dental plans where there are no waiting periods? Or should I just pay out of pocket money? Also, does anyone happen to know the average cost for a top quality crown? This is my front tooth we're talking about here and I want the very best.

Do you have a dental school in the area? Since it is your front tooth, they may have a teacher do the work. My brother did this when he was young and unemployed. At least they would consult with you and give you some qualified answers.

hairline fracture are normal in the enamel. the dentin below is softer. the enamel is the second hardest substance on earth .chad merrill dds

a dentist needs to determine if it is fractured or crazed lines

For a good all porc. crown you can expect to pay anywhere from nine hundred to twelve hundred dollars. You can get a porc. fused to metal crown which are slightly less expensive, but sometimes they can show a small amount of metal around the gumline. Not all of them are like this though I have seen some really good PFM crowns (porc. fused to metal) on the anterior teeth. I would not wait. I would find a dentist that uses intra oral camera technology. You can't always see a crack on the x-ray, but many times with a good intra oral camera it will show up. Because the camera was made to take pictures inside of the mouth it can show a multitude of things that we can't even see with the naked eye due to the very strong light that the intra oral camera requires to take a picture. If you can see the crack yourself then you should get something done about it soon. You could be eating something hard and hit the tooth just the right way and boom, you now have a fractured tooth that also needs a root canal plus a crown. You used the free brake inspection analogy. So let me use a car analogy as well. You know that your car needs to have that oil leak fixed,but you don't have the money to do it. You keep using your car thinking well it is running okay, why get the oil leak fixed. Then one day your engine seizes up because the oil leak got worse and you had no oil in it to keep everything lubricated. The engine got too hot and boom, now you have to pay thousands of dollars to get your engine repaired or replaced when you could have spent much less in the beginning to have the oil leak fixed. See where I am going with this. It is much less expensive in the long run to fix something, then to play the wait and see game. And in your case with it being a front tooth if anything happens everyone will be able to see it. I think you already know what to do, but you are just looking for someone to say yes go ahead and do it now. Well go ahead and get it taken care of before you encounter a potential embarrassing situation.
RDH