Turkey teeth

[Icanflyhigh]

I'm considering going to Turkey for new teeth.

I simply can't afford it here and after yet another upper back tooth crumbling last night, I need to do something.

Tell me your horror stories, give me your recommendations, desperate as I feel so flipping ugly.

How long would I need to be there? Are they English speaking?
Will I end up horrifically disfigured with glow in the dark teeth?!

So as not to drip feed, I do look after my teeth, this is related to roaccutane treatment as a teenager, and as I've got older, they've just crumbled.

@Icanflyhigh I would look into Poland or Latvia, high quality dental work for a much cheaper price. They will be honest with you about what they can do, even if it takes more time. These place are also cheap to fly to and stay. Recently had two fractured teeth saved in Latvia for a good price and my private dentist here wanted to pull them both out, wasn’t interested in saving them which is what I wanted.

I started a thread on dental implants in the UK for my DH. Sorry if this sounds snobbish,it is not meant to be.why not choose the UK you get the aftercare, piece of mind. There is no way on this earth he would be going to Turkey. UK prices have come down a lot.

Where did you get that opinion from about dentures .the downside is eating out ,even a burger has to be thought about ..
In all honesty,I've never had to think about anything I eat with my denture,it's very firmly in my mouth ,I don't get food under it or anything

I struggle to write this
I hate to write this

But if I understand correctly, you were a child at the time and the cost of implants is phenomenal.

Were you consented for this particular side effect? Or your parent/ guardian if you were 11? If not, you may be able to get compensation from the original practice (or practioner, potentially) who prescribed this to you. Basically, if it is not in your notes that they discussed this specifically, or gave written information of all the side effects etc (which included this), you may have a case. They might not want to go to court and might just settle. A colleague cannulated a patient who got a bruise and complained that she was not consented for bruises. The Welsh Trust my colleague worked in at the time paid her patient £5K.

I would go to Hungary or Romania. The British Dental Place in Bucharest is excellent.

I know someone whose sister went to turkey for a boob job; came home and they’d removed a kidney too while she was under anaesthetic. Don’t have anything done there that requires a general anaesthetic.

Come on now, there's absolutely no way she'd not know they took a kidney upon waking. It's not like they can slip a kidney out through the breast pocket created!

Oh I'm sure that happened 🙄

This old chestnut always comes up, and somehow it's always a friend of a friend

Spain has excellent dental care at very reasonable cost.

I was 14, I was told categorically I must not get pregnant and put on the pill at the same time.
I wasn't sexually active.
I didn't really understand why I needed to take another tablet with the roaccutane, all I understood was that the roaccutane would get rid of my awful acne.

My teeth crumbling is only one side affect that's been attributed to this drug - I'm also an ex-spinal surgery patient following crumbling discs in my lower spine as well as constant joint paint in my ankles, knees and shoulders in cold weather.
I just figure I have to suck this up. I took the drug willingly.

Irony is, my acne never improved with it!!

@Bulldogdays what dentures do you have and how many teeth, are they at the front?
So you can, say, walk around a Christmas market and have a Yorkshire pudding wrap? Or a chicken kebab? I don't know anyone who can eat as they did pre dentures. But you can pay £3+k for a set, so you might have the more expensive type.

She would need to prove that teeth crumbling 30 years later is absolutely definitely caused by the medicine. As it stands I cannot find any evidence or studies that roaccutane causes severe tooth loss in later life. The only evidence is that while taking the drug you can experience reduced saliva flow which can in some cases cause a risk of increased decay at the time because you lose the protection of the saliva. So i think unless you can find hard core evidence that it caused the severe tooth issues 30 years later I don’t think this would work.

I thought this thread was going to be about something that was rare. Then I realised I was thinking of hens teeth.

Why not? Tell us the horror stories. Would you say the same to someone thinking about getting implants in the UK?

I’m not the person you asked but I also work in dentistry and have seen some awful cases. One guy had 3 implants placed 6 months previously in Turkey and he came in as he was in a lot of pain on one of them. We took an xray and the dentist had placed one of the implants INTO the roots of another tooth that was left behind! I’ve never seen anything like it. I so wish I could share the xray but obviously I can’t. How a dentist managed to place an implant not realising there was still the roots of a tooth in place is just amazing (not in a good way). We had to send him away and back to Turkey. No way was the dentist at my job going to touch that mess.

OMG, poor guy, That sort of bad practice
needs to be shared as it might make people think twice before getting implants abroad. Sounds like Turkey teeth work out more expensive than UK teeth. Having to go to Turkey for dental check ups / repair work because UK dentist won’t touch them is going to work out a lot more expensive in the long run.

Do you see many patients with a set of teeth like Rylan or Katie Price ? They look hideous!

Hi did the dentist give your husband a denture during the healing process? Trying to work up the courage to see about an implant at the minute.

I'm vegan ,so wouldn't eat what you suggest
Cheapest NHS denture possible,£250

With all due respect, you are only going to see the failures, due to the nature of your job.

So much thinly veiled racism in this thread.
@Icanflyhigh go to a recommended Turkkish dentist who has an office in the UK. Have a consultation. Don't ask mumsnet. Do your own research.

Edited due to double post.

It's not about Turkish dentists or their competency, but the inadvisability of making multiple trips abroad to have serious oral surgery done and the issue that UK based dentist won't then do aftercare if you need it.

You get incompetent dentists everywhere (indeed my one implant is a result of poor dental work carried out by a British dentist in the UK - I needed a shall shallow filling, it came loose so the dentist pinned it in and in the process badly damaged the root of my tooth causing me to need a root canal at 19 - which eventually failed and had to be removed.)

I’m a hygienist. I see plenty of very successful work.

I would never say that ALL dental work from any country will always be terrible. The problem is when people go abroad is IF there are issues then no one here will touch it to fix it. If a dentist does shabby work in the UK there are procedures for getting it fixed. They have a duty to try and fix it. You could get compensation if necessary. But if you’ve gone abroad the procedures sometimes aren’t there that we have here.

That is just awful OP. You really should be able to get help. It's true that it'll be difficult to prove causation, but the 'lack of informed consent' route may work - a quick google suggests that it is well known that roaccutane can cause dry mouth and thereby gum and teeth problems. But of course that won't be quick.

As for getting your teeth done, I'd rather try Poland, Hungary or Romania. But I've done zero research and have no personal experience. I hope you get this sorted!

I have a friend with a turkish husband and ahe has gone for various cosmetic things. I also know someone who had hair transplant in turkey. All good stories and great outcomes with no issues.
I would definitely spend time on research though. Not just book from an ad youve seen, or the cheapest option.