Numbness or pain after dental work? It's not in your head.

We hear this question first on almost every call — and the honest answer is: more often than people are told. Trigeminal nerve repair is a documented surgical procedure with established CPT codes, and most major plans cover at least part of it when the documentation is built correctly. That's a big 'when.' Most offices don't know how to code or appeal it, which is why patients get told 'it's not covered.' Your Patient Advocate verifies your specific plan live on the 15-minute call, walks through deductibles and out-of-network benefits, and tells you in plain numbers what you'd actually owe. No vague answers, no surprise bills.

It's the most important question you can ask, and we wish more surgeons would give a straight answer. Outcomes are strongest in the first 3–6 months because nerves can scar and lose signal pathways the longer they sit. But — and this matters — meaningful repair is often still possible at 12, 18, even 24+ months out, especially with newer microsurgical techniques and nerve allografts. The only way to know your window is a real evaluation. We'd rather tell you the door is still open than let you assume it's closed.

Not to start. Your first conversation is a 15-minute virtual call with our Patient Advocate from anywhere — that's where we look at your imaging, verify insurance, and tell you whether an in-person surgical consult is even worth your travel. If it is, we coordinate scans locally to you whenever possible and only bring you in for the surgical consult and the procedure itself. We've helped patients from across the country and we make the logistics as light as we can.

We'll be straight with you: we are not the cheapest team in the country, and we don't want to be. We are the team that has done this 200+ times, with an MD+DDS surgeon, a co-surgeon model, and a Patient Advocate who fights your insurance instead of shrugging. Surgical fees range based on injury type, graft material, and OR time, and we walk through the real numbers — plus financing options like CareCredit and in-house plans — on the Advocate call. No deposits, no pressure, no quote that changes later.

Because we'd rather be honest than oversold. Our surgeons personally own each case from planning through recovery — there are no hand-offs to associates. To protect that standard, we cap new surgical consults at 8 per month so the patients already in our care don't slip. It's also why this month's offer matters: when these slots are gone, the next opening is genuinely 30+ days out. The 15-minute virtual call doesn't count against that cap, so you can always start there.