Anyone had a single tooth implant? 🦷

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Dentist is recommending I have a tooth removed due to decay/crown issues and an implant put in. I’ve been referred to an implant specialist.

Anyone had this procedure and was it successful and how much did it cost in total, including a new crown?

I had a tooth implant 21 years ago. It fell out for the first time after I ate a toffee the other week. They popped it back in again and ready to go for

The procedure was a bit drawn out & uncomfortable but it's worked out well for me. Sorry can't remember the price but it wouldn't be much help for you.

I have. Back molar. Cost me £2500.

Yes I have. One titanium implant, after hoping for two once the dodgy, shabby bits of old posts and disintegrating cement-stuff were removed. Very happy with it.

I can't remember the final cost, but the two hours of conscious sedation cost £300 per hour, and were worth every damn penny. (I'm a coward.) I could look up the cost if you'd like but you'd do better to ask your specialist. But it was expensive.

The one think I didn't quite clock was how long the process took.

• MRI(?) scan of jaw elsewhere.
• Subsequent discussion with dentist. (Couldn't have the 2nd implant due to not enough jawbone due to infection under dodgy older tooth. But could have special bovine paste applied that might grow back jaw after a year. Who knew?)
• Big appointment with two hrs sedation
• Needed to go to hotel overnight as I had no-one to escort me home
• Sitting at home thinking 'it feels a bit wobbly'
• Sitting at home drinking coffee and spitting out a piece of metal that I assumed was my implant. Still pleased I didn't swallow it.
• Hysterical phone call to dentist, with me going 'my implant has fallen out!!!'.
• Eventually me sending them a pic of the metal thingy established that JUST my dental abutment (who knew?) had fallen out.
• Return to dentist to get another one screwed in.
• Wait approx 6 weeks and return to get stitches taken out/checked they'd dissolved.
• Maybe the same time, got magic scan to get a digital model for the crown. If this hadn't worked, I'd have to have had that horrid mould with nasty blue sludge to give a physical model. Hate that.
• Came back and had the crown fitted. It was a bit tight so bits of adjacent teeth were shaved. Gaaah!

All done. Then I paid the bill. Worth it to me. Hoping to have another. Need to sell my house beforehand. Good luck.

My friend did but also needed a bone graft so it was 5.5k.

I'm in the middle of ine now. Had to have a bone graft, which has upped the price. I could choose between bovine or human bone. Picked human because with bovine there's a greater risk of rejection. Had scre put into gum this week and finally implant next month. It's taken just over a year and 5000 euro. Front tooth

Yes, and I have a bone graft. I chose to have a cadaver bone rather than my own - the whole process took quite a long time, as the bone graft had to ‘take’ before I could have the implant. It looks great though, and you’d never tell.

it might depend why you need it - in my case the adult tooth had come in in completely the wrong place many (many!) years ago, and when the milk tooth finally came out in my late 30s, there just wasn’t any bone there, because it hadn’t had to form around the adult tooth.

I would probably have opted for a denture if the tooth wasn’t at the front of my mouth

my tooth had already been missing for several years.
similar to others a long slow process which for me was very uneventful.
in the end very very pleased as it's improved my bite and ability to chew on both sides of my mouth which will help the other teeth next to it which have large large fillings.
worth the money (which was pricy) but i'm not in the uk.
i'd make sure the person doing the surgery is a specialist and that it's an office your dentist frequently works with.

I had one on a lateral incisor 4 years ago, done by my dentist and his colleague who is an implant specialist. The whole process took about 10 months, dentist said it's best to let each part of the process heal and settle before doing the next part.

It was on a tooth with a 30 year old crown and the tooth just snapped off at gum level one day. The process was extraction of the remainder of the tooth, creation and fitting of temporary false tooth on a denture( this looked fine but I loathed the feeling of it), scans of jaw to see if my jawbone was suitable, after the extraction had healed the gum was opened up and a titanium screw put in the jaw, gum stitched back, left that to heal until it was solidly in my jaw, temporary crown fitted, then final crown fitted.
I am delighted by the results, have had no problems, have to make sure to clean and floss it very well, all done under local anaesthetic, the worst bit was the drilling into the jaw for the titanium screw, it didn't hurt at all but because it was a slow drill it just sounded and vibrated like my head was going to be drilled off.

Cost around £3k altogether and I think that's money very well spent, I would have hated a denture which was the alternative.