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Post by johnc on Nov 14, 2018 13:43:14 GMT
I was at the dentist this morning and was told that a tooth I have at the back (root treated about 20 years ago by the same dentist) has reached the end of its natural, having cracked right down the root, according to the X-Ray.
The options are get it pulled and do without it, or get an implant. I asked how much an implant was and nearly fell off the chair with the news that it was £3,000.
I don't know anyone who has had an implant - can anyone tell me if that is a normal price so that I can weigh up the pros and cons? |
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Post by Tim on Nov 14, 2018 13:56:44 GMT
The person at the desk next to me at work is in mid-process of getting this done and so far has paid £350 for a scan and diagnosis, they'll be paying £1,500 for the implant but then there'll be more after that for a crown.
Add extra if any bone graft is needing done!
So £3,000 doesn't sound excessive.
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Post by Alex on Nov 14, 2018 13:57:07 GMT
The cost of an implant is why I just settled for having a gap at the back of my mouth. It was my own fault, I had a bit of a filling fall out and was too busy to do anything about it until the tooth it came from starting wobbling and hurting like buggery. I now use high fluoride toothpaste and attend check ups religiously every six months with no further problems. Sorry, that probably doesn’t answer your question!
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Post by Boxer6 on Nov 14, 2018 14:38:15 GMT
One of our secretaries got one done about 4 years ago; all in it cost her just over £1500 and was the 4th from the front, so fairly noticeable - more expensive? Anyway, she wouldn't have it done again, as she was sold it on the premise nothing would ever need done to it, which is a nonsense.
Personally, for a back one I think I'd be tempted to let it go and save the pennies for when an incisor decides to give up the ghost! |
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Post by ChrisM on Nov 14, 2018 14:56:30 GMT
Funny you should mention this......
A few weeks ago I went to a dentist for the first time in about 8 years. She couldn't understand why I wasn't in great pain as my teeth are in a bad way !
About 5 fillings have fallen out over the years and need re-doing, top front teeth have lost the layer of dentine and I have one lower tooth towards tha back that has decayed below the level of the gum and needs to come out. She suggested seeing how I get on with a gap there, otherwise one option is an implant (but she didn't mention the cost!).
Fillings are bad enough at around £90 each (gulp) ; I had the first one plus a "proper" clean done last Saturday, an hour in the chair, and it wasn't too bad at all, a much better and less painful experience than the last time I went to a dentist, and now I have clean teeth (ivory but not white, mind you)
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Post by PetrolEd on Nov 14, 2018 16:31:54 GMT
£3k seems about right the father in law has been quoted at least 4 grand for a front tooth. There are specialists, usually south Africans, that do an implant for not much more than a grand as everything is made cheaply back home.
I also know a guy who had his whole mouth done and was quoted £30k in the UK but pissed off to Thailand which was less then 10k but that was some 10 years ago.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Nov 14, 2018 16:37:51 GMT
£3k seems about right the father in law has been quoted at least 4 grand for a front tooth. There are specialists, usually south Africans, that do an implant for not much more than a grand as everything is made cheaply back home. I also know a guy who had his whole mouth done and was quoted £30k in the UK but pissed off to Thailand which was less then 10k but that was some 10 years ago. We had a guy at work who went to Thailand for his hols and got veneers as well - tremendous they were but I think they got his impressions mixed up with Shergars. He could eat an apple through a letterbox afterwards. |
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Post by Big Blue on Nov 14, 2018 17:15:46 GMT
Straight to Slovakia for this kind of treatment. Paulo, our dentist, is a technologist and always has the latest of whatever is on offer in the surgery.
His customers would take a hit out on him if he tried to charge them £3k for anything!
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Post by michael on Nov 14, 2018 17:21:33 GMT
I have implants and that price is about right. Do your homework on the specialist you get to do it as done wrong they can cause major bother.
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Post by PG on Nov 15, 2018 12:20:06 GMT
I have implants and that price is about right. Do your homework on the specialist you get to do it as done wrong they can cause major bother. Price looks about right for what UK dentists seem to want to charge. Two opposite tales in implants - Mrs PG had an implant done some years ago (on a back tooth) and had terrible trouble with it after it had been in quite a few years. THe tooth next to it got a large abscess underneath it. Upon having to have surgery to relieve the abscess it was discovered that the implant had been badly done and that there had been a low level infection at the wound site for years due to tiny amounts of metal off the tooth-pole that had come off as it was put into the bone. Basically, there was not much bone left to hold the tooth in and she lost the tooth next to the implant. The implant survives, so far. A friend of ours had two done at the same time as some remedial work on another tooth. She has had no trouble but says that the process was hugely painful and described having the stitches from her gum removed as like having trawler rope pulled through your jaw. Is it a top or lower tooth that has gone? If it is a top one, I'd leave it. If a bottom one, the tooth in the upper jaw can drop as there is no bite pressure on it - so you may lose the tooth above as well eventually. Basically, teeth are a fucking nuisance! |
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Post by johnc on Nov 15, 2018 13:03:12 GMT
It's a top molar but far enough back that you don't really see it when I smile.
I don't need it done for aesthetics it's just I will have a gap and one less tooth to chew with! |
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Post by grampa on Nov 15, 2018 21:45:07 GMT
As soon as I heard £3000 it would have taken me a nano second to decide I’d live with the gap!
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Post by Roadsterstu on Dec 10, 2018 20:33:22 GMT
I have implants and that price is about right. Do your homework on the specialist you get to do it as done wrong they can cause major bother. Price looks about right for what UK dentists seem to want to charge. Two opposite tales in implants - Mrs PG had an implant done some years ago (on a back tooth) and had terrible trouble with it after it had been in quite a few years. THe tooth next to it got a large abscess underneath it. Upon having to have surgery to relieve the abscess it was discovered that the implant had been badly done and that there had been a low level infection at the wound site for years due to tiny amounts of metal off the tooth-pole that had come off as it was put into the bone. Basically, there was not much bone left to hold the tooth in and she lost the tooth next to the implant. The implant survives, so far. A friend of ours had two done at the same time as some remedial work on another tooth. She has had no trouble but says that the process was hugely painful and described having the stitches from her gum removed as like having trawler rope pulled through your jaw. Is it a top or lower tooth that has gone? If it is a top one, I'd leave it. If a bottom one, the tooth in the upper jaw can drop as there is no bite pressure on it - so you may lose the tooth above as well eventually. Basically, teeth are a fucking nuisance! Sounds awful and I dread the day I need anything like that doing. Why do we not seem to have the option of general anaesthesia for dental work any more?! |
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Post by ChrisM on Dec 10, 2018 21:07:25 GMT
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Why can't our teeth last as long as the rest of our bodies?
I'm still in discomfort in my gum from the tooth that was taken out a week ago.
If I'm still experiencing pain on Wednesday, the dentist said she'd have a look at it, but from what I described it does not sound to her that it's infected.
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Post by michael on Dec 10, 2018 21:24:44 GMT
If you’ve had a tooth out expect discomfort for a few weeks if not months from the bits of tooth and bone that remain lodged in the gum and work their way out in time.
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