How much did Whitney Houston's dentures cost?

Answer 1

It is difficult to know how many false teeth Whitney Houston had, and equally difficult to determine when (and where) she first got dentures, if in fact, she had them. Assuming she got false teeth years ago, the cost was much lower back then than it would be today. Neither Houston nor her publicist ever would have released such information to the public; celebrities tend to guard this sort of personal information very carefully, as it can affect their image if the public knows they had plastic surgery or needed false teeth or had other types of cosmetic procedures.

Tabloids, which are seldom reliable, have claimed her teeth were ruined by drug abuse (which is possible), but reports that her dentures cost more than $8,000 are impossible to verify. Further, despite all of the tabloid rumors, there is no accurate way to verify how many (if any) of her teeth were her own, versus how many were false. Now that she is deceased, the autopsy did note that she had a partial plate (top teeth), but not many more details than that were provided.

Answer 2

It is difficult to know. Tabloids, which are seldom reliable, claimed her teeth were ruined by drug abuse, but whether she had lost any teeth was never verified while she was alive. It is certainly possible that her teeth were damaged by her addictions; the autopsy after she died indicated that her use of cocaine had damaged her heart as well. That said, tabloid and internet reports claimed she had lost all her teeth, which turned out to be untrue. As for other reports claiming her dentures cost more than $8,000, that amount is unlikely, given that the average dentist does not charge that much for a partial plate.

After Ms. Houston died, the autopsy revealed that she did have some false teeth (some of her top teeth), but some of her teeth were still her own. No further details were ever given, so we may never know how much her top teeth cost. But it is safe to assume that a major singing star who left a reported $20 million estate was able to afford excellent dental care, if and when she sought it out.