Anyone had a dental implant and if so how much did it cost?

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Having an absolute nightmare with my teeth since the start of my tmj and tooth grinding about 2 years ago. I now have a suspected cracked front tooth and may need it removed. I'm only in my 20s so I'm really upset and don't fancy the idea of a denture or ruining other teeth for a bridge.
Anyone had a successful implant in the UK and how much did it cost?

DH just had one done due to root resorption . Just over £3K , a brilliant job though .

Yes it will. It's literally a physical stop to the opposite tooth. It's usually top teeth that over erupt. Bottom teeth kind of tilt and rotate.

Can someone explain exactly what an implant is?

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A dental implant is an artificial tooth root that is placed into your jaw to hold a replacement tooth or bridge.

this is quite good to explain.

They drill into your jaw. Put a metal thingy in. Do some more drilling. And some screwing.

Months of it.

mine is still in with its temporary glue as I refused to let him take out again. After it took him so long to get the damned thing in. And why did I need glue with all that metal and screws.

Birdsgottafly, please don't go abroad. I spent a long time researching various clinics abroad (there are so many!) before choosing what I thought looked like a good clinic in Piestany, Slovakia, and I still ended up with horrible results that were very painful and costly to fix. There were hundreds of positive reviews for the clinic, but so what? I know that I would be too humiliated to post an online review with my real name on it online, and I'm assuming many other people feel the same way.

Oh, and I discovered that one of the owners of the clinic also owns and runs one of the main websites for reviewing dental clinics abroad! There is no way those reviewsfor his clinic or the othersare posted in an unbiased way.

I deeply regret going abroad for dental treatment. I sounded just like you before I did it, and I spent a lot of time researching, but I wish I had listened to the few people who warned me. Please don't do it.

Because that's how it works exit as you well know and will be delighted with your new tooth when it's finished!!

Thanks Mrsmorton

Paying for an implant is not going to be easy for me. Do you think it's worth paying the money to avoid over eruption?

It's a really bespoke decision tbh and one best made in discussion with your dentist. I'm sorry to be no extra help but it's difficult!

Noooo. He told me he was putting it in for tha last time, got it right, eventually, and then said come back in two weeks and I'll take it out and put it in again.

I refused at the next appointment. I may met him take it out in 6 months.

And it feels different when I brush my teeth.

But at least I can smile with impunity.

If I felt like it.

My friend has a dentist who is quite clearly not in the job to make money. He's also a friend of hers.

He charged her only for the prep work (£300) and got her to order the implant from the technician herself, and it was sent to her house. It cost another £300. He then fitted it in his own house.

I am very jealous and quite shocked at the massive mark up dentists charge.

That's not an implant surely benny a post crown? Or a crown? Implants are a proper surgical treatment.

This thread has made me all shakey I desperately need to see a dentist but dental phobia has got me to the point where even reading online makes me feel sick

Mrs M and other MN dentists - where are you all based?!

I don't see patients anymore. It's too stressful and (as sadly sometimes demonstrated on here) it's all about rights and not about responsibilities.

Feel free to pm me and if I know anyone in your area I can recommend.

I SWEAR, Mrs M - it was an implanted molar! I was at her house when the new tooth arrived and saw the thingy (abutment?) in her gum which she had done about 3 months before the last stage.

I had mine done about 4 years ago and it cost £2500 but I'm in south east X

Ok. I believe you but that's incredibly incredibly cheap. Did she have stitches? It's just unusual. I'm not calling you a liar!!!!

£2,500 in south east London.

OP - it did not hurt at all and I have a very low pain threshold.

I had mine done 2 years ago and it was about 2k iirc. It was a private dentist just near Baker Street Station. It was originally going to be about 1500 but i needed a bovine bone graft as my jaw bone had reduced (in the 5 years since i had had no tooth there after a very botched root canal) and wasn't thick enough.

He was very good and i am very pleased with the result.

Having one tomorrow. Bloody terrified. 1900€.

I don't know re stitches, Mrs M, but she says it's the best tooth in her head! And it looks perfect.

I am just jealous of her £600 vs my £2500.

...I could tell many stories from her re this dentist. He seems, rather, altruistic, or certainly to my friend and her family.

MrsKoala almost identical story - bovine bone graft etc. Bloody thing didn't work, the dentist didn't tell me not to floss, plus I got a cold just after it was done, bloody waste of money and £2.5k poorer. I am fuming about it.

DH does implants. £2-3k per tooth is about right due to the labour, insurance, parts and risk. If they are cheaper than that find out why. Good idea if you are spending that kind of money to choose either a specialist or someone with a post graduate course in implants- like a masters. DH works next to a dentist who just bangs in implants after doing a week long course purely to make money whereas DH will spend HOURS putting what he's learned into practice.