orthodontist help needed

jpaine

my daughter is 15 and has been refered to an orthodontist who said she needs full orthodontic treatment ,train track braces. the problem is there is a year and a half waiting list. she will be 17 getting braces and 18 half gettingbthem off, needless to say shes not impressed. so i thought i would check out private. £3400.00 total .... i have health insurance with HSA but enen on there max its only 210 for dental. checked tesco dental insurance and they go th 2100. does anyone know a way around this, any help wopuld be great. thanx

poppyolivia

I got my braces (upper and lower fixed) when i was 31...3 years worth of treatment....2 years to go...Will she defo not do it on the NHS???? I wish I had it done then!
If youre not with tesco insurance I think (and I say THINK) you would have to be with it a certain time before it would kick in?????
Braces are cool all the young and trendy have them...ok I'm kidding myself!!!LOL

aylesby

When my children went through this they had a choice of orthodontist. Explain the waiting list to your dentist and see what they can come up with.

whatatwit

Check with the Insurance Plans, they may class this as 'cosmetic'

I think some orthodontists accepts payment as the treatment goes, so if you did go private, you would not have to pay up front in full.

Toothsmith may give some more advice.

Ishtar

I had full train track braces fitted when I was almost 17 - not sure why it was left so late, but wasn't a waiting list issue.... Anyhow, I finished my treatment after my 18th birthday - had a removable brace for the last six months or so which I was supposed to wear every night. Many of my friends were also fitted with braces at around the same time, so I didn't necessarily feel isolated.

I remember thinking that it would be awful, but in reality it wasn't so bad...and IMO the benefits outweighed the drawbacks...

D.

andromache_2

I had braces put in at the beginning of sixth form and got them taken off a couple of weeks before I left for uni. It was no problem at all - soooo many people have orthodontic work nowadays that most people had had them at some point in the past even if they didn't have them at that age so they were sympathetic! Honestly, it was never an issue and I was never self-conscious about it. Obviously it would be nice to get it out the way but if it's not possible then it's no biggie having to have braces when you're a little bit older.

Paparika

my 13 year old needs the treatment too, only we've been kicked off the nhs list by our dental surgery as they dont have an nhs dentist

Shoshannah

Does she actually need the treatment? For example, I was sent for orthodontic work as a matter of course when I was about 13 or 14. I hated the braces, wore them a couple of times then never wore them again. OK, so my teeth aren't perfectly in line. But I can speak without biting my tongue and eat without dribbling, so who cares? :rotfl:

poppyolivia

Shoshannah wrote: »

Does she actually need the treatment? For example, I was sent for orthodontic work as a matter of course when I was about 13 or 14. I hated the braces, wore them a couple of times then never wore them again. OK, so my teeth aren't perfectly in line. But I can speak without biting my tongue and eat without dribbling, so who cares? :rotfl:

:rotfl: :rotfl: did you ever lisp?:rotfl: I have just, sort of done away with mine when they removed the plate in my mouth...oh to be half normal again!!:rotfl:

bunty109

I had braces at 17 and they were taken off when I was nearly 19.....in the meantime I met the man I married....<cue emotional music>

My 10yo is having braces put on privately. We've got Tesco insurance and orthodontics aren't covered so we are paying ourselves and praying her 2 brothers won't need them! As far as I am aware, NHS orthodontics are now points scored and it's getting harder to get free treatment

Frith

I had mine put on at 17 and I don't think they stopped me doing much! My sister's braces were definitely still glued on when she went to Uni although I can't remember when they were prised off.

If you have them too early, do your teeth move back a bit? One of mine at the top isn't quite as straight as it was when I first had the braces off :-( but they are still so straight they look false!!

Liz