This treatment needs 2 trips to Costa Rica, this happens in the first trip:

6 nights in Costa Rica

1. Monday Morning / Initial Consultation and Diagnosis

Once you decide to undergo the treatment, the first step is a thorough diagnosis that involves taking CT scans and pictures of your mouth. These help us understand your unique situation and formulate the most suitable treatment plan. Dr. Freer will project your X-rays in the consulting room and will explain how we will do the treatment in your case; during this appointment, the doctor will answer all your questions.

2. Monday Afternoon or Tuesday Morning / Surgery & Implant Stability

After the diagnosis, our team of specialists will perform the surgery. This involves placing 4 to 6 titanium implants in your upper and lower arches (8 to 12 dental implants in total). The surgery is performed under sedation to ensure your comfort. Afterwards, the stability of the implants is crucial; if your bone structure is solid and healthy, we have high chances of achieving immediate loading of the dental implants. This means we put the implants to work immediately. During this surgery, all teeth extractions that you currently need, are also done without pain.

3. Tuesday /Titanium Metal Hybrid Prosthesis Design

Once the surgery is complete and assuming immediate loading is achieved (as it is for 95% of our patients), we take an impression of the implants. While you rest, our dental lab begins designing your new titanium metal bar frame. This metal frame significantly reduces the risk of fracture and helps the implants work together more effectively.

4. Wednesday /Try-In of Prosthesis and Adjustments

We will try in the metal bar structure and the acrylic set of teeth over it. You’ll be able to choose the color and size of your new teeth. Any modifications you want can be done with the help of our dental technicians until you are satisfied with your new smile. Once you and the dentist are happy with the aesthetics and function of the prosthesis, we instruct our dental lab to finish the process.

5. Thursday /Receiving Your New Teeth

On the third day after your surgery, you will receive your new set of acrylic teeth (Upper and lower full arches), completing your transformation and giving you a brand-new smile.

6. Friday /Final Check-Up

The prosthesis has been fixed the day before, and now the patient will return for a last check-up appointment to see how the prostheses feel, fit, and eventually adjust to the bite.

After your first trip, your process of osseointegration begins, your implants will become part of your bone structure and then it will be safe for you to receive the permanent zirconium prosthesis. After 4 months we are ready to design your new permanent zirconium smile.

Your second and last trip to Costa Rica is very important, the design and test of your new permanent smile is something that we take seriously; it is necessary that you spend 10 nights in Costa Rica, you will only have 4 appointments since most of the job happens inside the lab, we want to make sure that you come back home with your dream smile and that it lasts for the rest of your life.

10 nights in Costa Rica:

1. (Monday Morning) Initial Consultationand Diagnosis

During your interview with the Doctor, he will analyze your X-Rays and analyze the state of the implants that were already installed during your first trip, where we will place your new Zirconia smile.

2. (Tuesday & First Week) Laboratory Work of Smile

Our state-of-the-art in-house laboratory will create your customized permanent teeth that will not only restore your smile but is also individualized and carefully planned.

3. (Friday, first week) Aesthetic Test

The final adjustments are made to ensure the smile that the patient wants, how the prostheses feel, fit, and eventually adjust the bite, the patient can enter in our laboratory and along with the doctor make modifications to the digital design of the smile.

4. (Tuesday 2nd Week) Receiving Your New Teeth

On this day, you will receive your new set of zirconium teeth, completing your transformation, and giving you a brand-new smile.

5. Final Check-Up (Wednesday 2nd Week) 

The permanent zirconium smile is fixed the day before, once we have confirmed that the bridges and/or arch fit perfectly, they will be securely attached to your implants, giving you a full set of new and functional teeth.

You must buy your flight ticket for the Juan Santamaría Airport (SJO), airlines such as Spirit and American Airlines have direct flights to Costa Rica.

Freer Dental has an exclusive team of 3 anesthesiologists with more than 25 years of experience giving services to public and private hospitals and giving our patients a painless experience. The anesthetic is placed by intravenous line and generally our patients wake up 1 hour after the surgery.

When patients acquire the treatment through our website, it includes transport from the airport to the hotel. When the treatment is acquired through intermediaries, it does not include transport. Schedule your treatment through our website to receive benefits.

The only additional expense is the purchase of medicine in the pharmacy, the doctor will send you a recipe with antibiotics, medicine for pain control, among others with an approximate cost of 140 dollars for all the medicine you will need during the week.

Our concierge service will accompany you to the medicine purchase in one of the two pharmacies nearby the clinic.

Accommodation for the second trip is not included and costs approximately $800 for your entire stay, including breakfast.

In Freer Dental we accept 3 payment methods such as bank transfer, to our account in the United States (Wire Transfer), cash and credit card. If you would like more information about payment, you can contact our customer service team.

Six nights of accommodation for two people are included in all of our full smile reconstruction packages.

• The temporary prosthesis of the All on 6 treatment is designed to last up to 12 months; you have 12 months of complete warranty, following the recommendations and with proper maintenance it can extend the product life by up to 5 years.
• The temporary prosthesis includes a metal bar inside the prosthesis that provides double support to the treatment and allows for greater durability.
• Price includes lodging for your first trip, but it is not included in your second trip.
• Some patients remain some years with the temporary prosthesis, the recommendation is to replace the temporary prosthesis in 6 months and in a maximum of 3 years.
• The permanent zirconium prosthesis can be designed in a single bar over the implants or using the 3 on 6 treatment in which you receive 6 zirconium bridges (3 bridges in each arch), since your first trip you can discuss both options with the doctor.

Options for my permanent zirconium smile:

Please note that your permanent zirconia smile can be either a single full arch over implants (All-on-6) with an internal metal bar, or a 3-on-6 design (three individual bridges per arch, directly attached to the implants). This decision will be made with the doctor during your initial evaluation appointment, depending on your medical background and bone structure.

Conditions and restrictions:

If you have any of the following diseases you should have it under medical control: Diabetes, dyslipidemia, high cholesterol or thyroid problems, This treatment is not performed in patients who use medications for osteoporosis (Bisphosphonates).

Patients must have the adequate volume of bone and a sufficient density for the anchorage of the implants to allow immediate loading, if their bone does not have the necessary conditions, a second trip will be necessary.

The number of implants depends on the state of your bone, in some cases it will be possible to place 4 implants per jaw (8 in total), if your bone has sufficient volume, 12 implants will be placed in total.

You can send us your panoramic x-ray so that our team of doctors can confirm that you qualify for the treatment before your trip.