Getting me teeth fixed.

theheathen

hethmar wrote: »

Id join in but I dont understand all the long words.

BTW, there are a couple of implant dentists in the UK who charge £1k or less, if you have a google for them.

Being sesquipedalian is not a requisite for participation. Are you a patient or practitioner?

hethmar

Most definitely a patient. Most of top teeth capped 3 years back now and Im very pleased with them. Currently contemplating about 6 implants at the Brighton Implant Centre (but Im nearly twice your age ) which seems very reasonably priced. There is also Dentale, which say they charge £555 an implant if you allow dentist students to do the work - they are dentists already but learning implant techniques. Unfortunately they are based in the west country and too difficult for me to attend regularly.

I can fully understand why dentists would be reluctant to undertake the work the way you mention. It could get very complicated and messy. As toothsmith suggested, ask your friend if he can recommend someone who would be prepared to do it.

http://www.brightonimplantclinic.co.uk/


http://www.brightonimplantclinic.co.uk/prices.php

theheathen

hethmar wrote: »

Most definitely a patient. Most of top teeth capped 3 years back now and Im very pleased with them. Currently contemplating about 6 implants at the Brighton Implant Centre (but Im nearly twice your age ) which seems very reasonably priced. There is also Dentale, which say they charge £555 an implant if you allow dentist students to do the work - they are dentists already but learning implant techniques. Unfortunately they are based in the west country and too difficult for me to attend regularly.




Of course 'implant' as a term can mean a few different things..

1. Just the actual root form implant

2. Root form and abutment to which a crown will later be attached

3. Both of the above.

coldstreamalways

You are Barry Cockroft and I claim my £5.

This thread is brilliant and what I would call a "wah".

brook2jack

theheathen wrote: »

More obfuscation.

For argument sake say 28 crown preps, impressions of both arches and temps placed. Then remove temps, cement permanent crowns and adjust. How many hours of the practitioner time do you think it would take?
plan.

Months if not years. No one in their right mind would try to do this as you will totally destroy the "bite" and this will lead to all sorts of problems from jaw pain to broken teeth and crowns.

25 % of all teeth prepared for a crown will need root treatment afterwards so you would also have to have say 6 root treatments. Not all root treatments work so you may need to have a tooth or several extracted.

Teeth that are root filled are more brittle than living teeth so the crowns on these teeth will have to be redone with posts.

Even so these teeth will be more likely to break so you will probably need more teeth extracted.

Meantime the acid erosion etc is still going on underneath the remaining crowns and these are starting to fail as erosion decay happens much faster under a crown than on an untouched tooth......


You would be at a dentists every couple of weeks/months for years until all the teeth were lost.

ynwa6

theheathen wrote: »

More obfuscation.

I mean it's certainly preferable to having people like you spitting poison at them because they don't have £5-10k to drop on your suggested treatment plan.

The only person to suggest this is an appropriate treatment is you.

As mentioned above savaging your teeth in this way as a one off treatment will lead to more problems. You need several treatment planning sessions to assess the teeth, bone, bite etc before you would start preparation. And following that years of aftercare.

hethmar

Of course 'implant' as a term can mean a few different things..

1. Just the actual root form implant

2. Root form and abutment to which a crown will later be attached

3. Both of the above.

Well, Ive given you the link - check for yourself - its an important decision and worthy of a lot of research.

Would add the prep and other treatment plus the final caps/crowns for my 6 teeth then the bite adjustments took about 6 months overall - plus the dentist told me to stop smoking or Id be throwing my money away. I stopped that day after 40 years of smoking So an added bonus. I continue to visit the dentist every 6 months for follow up and hygienist treatments which are very thorough.

ASTONDB9

this thread is funny

i wonder if the OP is also behind this thread
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2782776

i think the NHS dentist was spot on, goodbye, see you in 6 months ( dont think i will be sending you a reminder though)

theheathen

brook2jack wrote: »

Months if not years. No one in their right mind would try to do this as you will totally destroy the "bite" and this will lead to all sorts of problems from jaw pain to broken teeth and crowns.

25 % of all teeth prepared for a crown will need root treatment afterwards so you would also have to have say 6 root treatments. Not all root treatments work so you may need to have a tooth or several extracted.

Teeth that are root filled are more brittle than living teeth so the crowns on these teeth will have to be redone with posts.

Even so these teeth will be more likely to break so you will probably need more teeth extracted.

Meantime the acid erosion etc is still going on underneath the remaining crowns and these are starting to fail as erosion decay happens much faster under a crown than on an untouched tooth......


You would be at a dentists every couple of weeks/months for years until all the teeth were lost.

Despite this If I walked into pretty much any private dental practice in the land, plopped £25k on the desk, the work would go ahead despite your dire warnings. Your argument is ridiculous as taken to its logical conclusion no dentist would ever place a crown.

theheathen

hans1983 wrote: »

The only person to suggest this is an appropriate treatment is you.

As mentioned above savaging your teeth in this way as a one off treatment will lead to more problems. You need several treatment planning sessions to assess the teeth, bone, bite etc before you would start preparation. And following that years of aftercare.

No, a broadly similar plan was advised by 2 different dentists, the only major difference being they suggested veneers for the anterior teeth as a more conservative way to protect them.