When I drove a school bus, at one point I worked enough hours to receive benefits, so I went to sign up for them. The lady showed me two folders for different dental plans. I asked if I could review them and get back to her. She gave me permission, but when I returned, she told me that I needed to decide when I was first there.
I was upset, which did not do any good.
Then I started having dental problems. I went to the local dental school and they found some issues, but told me that I needed to have my wisdom teeth removed first.
"Is that causing the pain?"
"No, but you need to do that first."
I requested time off for the procedure, but was told to schedule it after work, or on a weekend. When I could not find any orthodontist that worked that schedule, they agreed, but then I could not take any pain medications because I was driving a school bus. I never had the dental student do anything, the entire process took too long. I went to a normal dentist and paid for three root canals. However, after putting the wisdom teeth and three root canals on my credit card, I could only afford one crown, and I was not able to get the others in the couple of years before I joined the Army. I needed to wait a full month for that one crown, going through a couple temporaries, with one lasting just a few hours. I got tired of going back for replacements, so I just waited, and then the orthodontist needed to grind down the permanent one.
So, dentists used to always tell me that I ground my teeth. No, an oral surgeon ground one tooth.
At some point a dentist gave me "huge fillings," so at least I would not get food trapped there, but I could not chew on that side, which made Basic more interesting.
After boot camp, they kept calling me to fill in cavities. The dental instructor at the school told me repeatedly (during the same visit) to purchase a Sonicare and every time I said that I would, as soon as I left. I did and I used it three times a day. When I was in Germany, they filled in many more cavities, and we had three formations a day. I brushed my teeth with the Sonicare before every formation and again before going to bed.
However, every single dentist told me to stop eating candy, drinking soda, and start brushing my teeth. I was brushing my teeth three or four times a day and never drank soda, just water, rarely eating candy, but when I try to tell them this, they say "Don't lie to me, boy."
They would not give me crowns when I was in Germany and two months ago, my one remaining crown broke off. I am finally starting my "career" as a Speech-Language Pathology Assistant (speech therapist sidekick) and only have two clients so far, but I should eventually have enough work to fix up my mouth and my car.
I should be able to get Tricare dental and crowns are supposed to cost about five hundred dollars each, although going to Mexico is an interesting idea. I speak the language!
The first result for "how much to have a crown done in mexico?" is
Dentists Mexico - Find a better Dentist in Mexico. On the right there are links for Popular Locations in Mexico and Popular Treatments. It looks like most charge about four hundred dollars, although some were less than half of that.