Questions about Dental crowns

Nile

Dear Toothsmith


Thank you for providing the link. It helps to know that the information is fairly accurate too.;)

Kind Regards

Nile

Hermia

My lovely white crown (it unfortunately makes the rest of my teeth look really grotty!) cost me about £70. Crumbs! If my NHS dentist retires/moves away I'll have to knock my teeth out with a hammer 'cause I won't be able to afford to do anything else!

gundo

Toothsmith wrote:

White crowns look better, gold crowns generally last longer. Pays yer money, takes yer choice!

White it is then.

Toothsmith wrote:

I've gone into quite a bit of detail in other posts on why dentistry is expensive. It's not all Porsches and villas. If you click my profile, you'll be able to find other posts by me.

Mine have all had top of the range BMWs. Porsches are so vulgar darling...

Toothsmith wrote:

A polish dentist still has to operate in this country with our wage costs, and business costs, and regulations. You could go to Poland, but our government has been recruiting all their dentists, so you might not find one there!

Polish plumbers/carpenters etc don't necessarily file IR returns etc.

I was kidding by the way, hence the smiley.

If my toilet cistern doesn't flush properly then no big deal.

However when it comes to my health I wouldn't take chances.

Toothsmith wrote:

Seriously though, the cost sounds about right for the area (High property & wage costs) If you have a good relationship with this dentist, and it's a good service he offers, then it's probably a fair charge.

Thanks for your opinion much appreciated.

The dentist I have now is superior to the previous one who didn't know what to do about my acheing tooth and did a filling at the side of the tooth which didn't solve the problem and it has a rough finish which if I don't brush it scrupulously develops that horrible "mossy" feeling.

Moose_2

Here's a thought...how much do you want to keep the tooth in your head. Have it taken out it is far cheaper!
You will get used to the gap in no time.
Root fillings don't always solve the problem and it's a lot of money to spend to then find the tooth has died and rotted and has to be taken out afterall! (this is what happened to my Father-in-Law)

gundo

Moose wrote:

Here's a thought...how much do you want to keep the tooth in your head. Have it taken out it is far cheaper!
You will get used to the gap in no time.
Root fillings don't always solve the problem and it's a lot of money to spend to then find the tooth has died and rotted and has to be taken out afterall! (this is what happened to my Father-in-Law)

Sadly this is exactly what a dentist did to me when I was 7-8 years old completely pulling out the roots and everything. So I have a massive gap on the LHS bottom jaw and since then I've only ever been able to chew food with the RHS.



So not an option I'm afraid.

$17mma

Well I was told by my dentist that a crown with ( the best materials) would cost in £700 :eek:

Needless to say I was out of the chair in a shot!!, if I wanted it with cheaper materials it was going to cost In the region of £300..

I curse the dentist :mad: who tok my tooth out when I was only 18 rather than giving me a root canal job because he thought it would hurt!

If I could afford it I would do it, but can do without the canal job for now so it will have to wait for another time.

Moral of the story.. never have teeth taken out if you can help it.. they cant be replaced.. not even with a bridge...

Mr_Proctalgia

I am currently part way through a lot of endodontic treatment - Firstly a grind down of my UL6 then start of Root canal work, then x ray with the files still in and finally a gold crown. I paid for my root canal work on monday £64!!!! I get the gold crown next week and that is £75!!! We have a choice of NHS dentists still up here.

My dentist said that I could only have a gold crown on my molars on the NHS and a private porcelain one would be £250

.........and no it hasn't really hurt too much, only the root files feel strange as you can hear them grinding the pulp out

Toothsmith

The 'gold' crown will have no precious metal in it. that's not allowed on the NHS either.

Just out of interest, how long has the whole process taken?

Was rubber dam used?

Teerah

Hey Toothsmith, dont forget to stop tarring everyone with the same brush

Toothsmith

sorry T.

This does look a bit like a molar endo/crown prep in one appointment though! Just wondered how long that appointment was!

It would take me 3 visits and about 2 h to get to the same stage! But then it could be that I'm just spinning it out to justify my enormous bill!