Questions about Dental crowns

Toothsmith

Up until April 1st 2006. After that it will only cost you £183.

Bear in mind though that after April 1st, a dentist won't be paid any more for doing a crown than doing a filling, so the chances of persuading him to do all of them at the same time will be zilch.

Especially as the dentist will have to pay for the construction of the crown(s).

Also to point out that the £183 that you will pay for one or more crowns will go straight to Gordon Brown - it's a charge like a prescription charge - not to the dentist.

I would hazard a guess that you are unlikely to ever have your crowns replaced on the NHS.

gundo

Out of interest Toolsmith how long does it normally take for the temperature sensitivity of a new crown to wear off? It's been over two weeks and I'm still only eating foods/drinking liquids that are at body temperature.

BTW my crown cost £410 in the end.

Toothsmith

With the weather going colder as well, you may well notice it for a while. Two weeks isn't unusual. It should, hopefully feel a little bit better each day.

I had an incident a couple of years ago when a couple of patients both needed crowns replacing because they had stayed sensitive for over 6 months. (It was me who'd done the original crowns)

It's strange the way these things work! After never really having much trouble with sensitivity after crowns I'd done, two pop up at almost the same time.

I wouldn't want to take a drill to a tooth again (to get the crown off) unless we'd given it a really good chance to settle down though.

Two weeks though, as I said earlier, is not really very long. Might be worth popping back to the dentist though. A bit of fluoride varnish may work wonders.

gundo

Thanks Toolsmith. Very much appreciate the advice.

Toothsmith

It's Toothsmith!

gundo

Toothsmith wrote:

It's Toothsmith!

D'oh!

Sorry abt that.



Toothsmith it is.

Davidboy

Toothsmith wrote:

So that was a private crown then.

I don't know, I was just answering the originators question how much did it cost, it cost me £200? Whether it was private or not, that was the what my NHS dentist charged me. Are you saying my dentist was wrong?


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Toothsmith

Sorry DB.

In saying that your NHS dentist charged you £200 for a crown, I thought it gave the impression that an NHS crown cost £200.

NHS crowns don't really come to more than about £80.

Later in your post, you do explain that you were given options though.

I was just clearing up the fact that your NHS dentist provided you with a private crown for £200.

Davidboy

You are right I think he quoted me something like £80 for a NHS one, £130 a gold and £200 for the white one.

To be honest I'd had so much pain with this flippen tooth, that I'd have paid anything to get rid of it. But I am so glad I went down the route of root canal filling first then a crown, like I said the best thing I have done, no pain can eat normally, smashing ...great!!

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System

I had my three gold crowns fitted during my pregnancies with my girls 20 and 17 years ago and they were free. I have wondered over the years if they were all really necessary as I don't recall having much trouble except for one abcess which resulted in root canal work and the subsequent crown. Nor do I recall not looking after my teeth properly.

On Monday however one of the molar crowns came out courtesy of a Quality Street toffee penny and luckily I didn't swallow it. I'm going to the dentist on Friday to hopefully have it refitted. Is it easy enough to do that and since it has come out once is it more likely to happen again?