Dental Spacers for children. Need or Wait?

[pizzaparty9]

i have a spacer i broke an adult tooth in the back Ive noticed teeth move fast to fill a gap Ive gone 1 day with out putting it in and it get really hard to put back in so i recommend do it as fast as you can if you wait to long the measurements the dentist has right now would be wrong thou they can grind away at it to make it fit i wouldn't wait a month thou maybe 2 weeks max recently broke mine and i am really scrambling for time because i don't want the teeth to move too much

[pizzaparty9]

i really don't understand why it cost so much its just a small plastic piece like a quarter the size of a retainer that probably costs only 30$ to make if computer manufacturers can build cheep parts with materials more expensive than what any spacer is made from and sell it for as little as 30$ why the hell do spacers cost 500$ you know what 500$ can buy ... a phone a gtx 970 graphics card a tv the list go's on and on ... now if some one can tell me why i can buy a full computer with what i paid for this small plastic piece go ahead and make my day

[Utopian Slums]

If she is definitely going to need braces, it seems to me that waiting for a tooth to grow in would not add $500 worth of orthodontic treatment in the future.

But I'm not an ortho. And I'm biased to spacers since my mom was talked into one in hopes to avoid braces and yet I needed them anyways. Getting my teeth pulled to get a spacer was a ridiculous scam on my pedi dentist's part. It's obvious to anyone with a basic knowledge of physics that getting your 2 front teeth pulled and then putting in a spacer will merely thrust the growing teeth fwd. This was billed to my mom's insurance. She had excellent insurance that was taken full advantage of to the penny.

[AnonChick]

Originally Posted by pizzaparty9

i really don't understand why it cost so much its just a small plastic piece like a quarter the size of a retainer that probably costs only 30$ to make if computer manufacturers can build cheep parts with materials more expensive than what any spacer is made from and sell it for as little as 30$ why the hell do spacers cost 500$ you know what 500$ can buy ... a phone a gtx 970 graphics card a tv the list go's on and on ... now if some one can tell me why i can buy a full computer with what i paid for this small plastic piece go ahead and make my day

You're starting from a false premise. It doesn't cost only $30 to make.
This isn't meant to be rude, but you're making an illogical comparison. Computers aren't people, and computer components aren't dental devices, and dentists aren't computer manufacturers. Computers don't need to make an appointment to get a component added to them, and computer technicians don't need an advanced medical degree to place a component onto a motherboard.