I would be very wary of franchise dental practices. I will not name names, but they often have lower fees, but add things that you do not need - thus you end up paying for more than you need and will often not get as good of treatment as you would with a private dentist, who has a rep to consider and even good dentist at these places are pressured to sell and work quicker than they may be good at.

As far as pulling teeth and dentures, it is almost always better to save your own teeth if you can.

If one gets dentures, then supporting them with titanium dental implants is usually a better way to go.

If $$ is the largest driving force, then I suggest the UT Dental Branch, Houston, in the MD Anderson med center. I also am a Clinical Assistant Professor in the periodontics residency. All residents in any program are doctors - they have all graduated with their DDS, or DMD and are doing extra training. The dental students are college grads, who start clinic in their 3rd year, after 2 years of books, labs , intensive model work, etc. They are closely supervised and do great work. Both dental students and residents will render treatment for about 1/3 of the $$ in the private sector. If driving is a problem, there are P&R busses and the light rail. I have done it before.