Anyone had a dental implant? Experiences please!!

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Hi all,
any advice/ experiences welcome.
Without being boring, got a front tooth which has been root filled loads, got a veneer on, but for years keeps getting infected and you can tell tooth under veneer is dead, kind of looks greyer.
Considering an implant;

• cost?
• pain? result? alternatives
• nhs/ private

thanks

I'm near the end of what I think has been a year long process of getting one. Not a front one but cost me 2000 privately. Worst part by far was having the old tooth removed.

I have a bridge which I recently had replaced and am really pleased with. Is this an option rather than the implant? There is a big difference in cost or doesn't this matter?

i don't mind what i have done, so long as it looks good! when you have an implant do you always have a replacement tooth? don't they have to shave bits off of other teeth for a bridge? desperate for a solution this tooth has been crap for years, costant infections in root canal, damn!

for a bridge they reduce the teeth on either side to a point (like a triangle) and crown them with the fake tooth being held between the two crowns. Does that make sense? If its done well, like my replacement bridge, it looks really natural and is much cheaper than an implant. With an implant,as far as I am aware, the tooth is removed and if obvious like a front tooth, replaced with a temporary denture, and a metal post is screwed into the gum. This takes a few months to settle and for the swelling to go down before the implant can be secured to the post.

I am sure dentist mumsnetters will correct me

cheers oxo for input, do they reduce teeth either side regardless of their condition? as all other teeth are fine. did you have your work sone nhs/ private?

dh has an implant. tooth had eventually died after being knocked and chipped 20 years ago. It was a front top one They removed it, then some months later put the implant in, let that settle then about 8 months after the tooth was removed they put the tooth on the implant. Looks like his own, he said it felt odd as it had no sensation but now down the line that non feeling doesn't bother him. looks brilliant, not sure you could pick out which one it was.

that's encouraging furball, my tooth problems similar to your dh's, what did he in temporarily before final tooth went on?

they made a plate with one tooth on it. He never really got on with it to be fair and used to take it out to eat, then he just put it in less and less until it was never.

Mine was done 20 yrs ago on NHS but was never good (was free though!) and had it redone really well by a private dentist last year. Cost Eu 2,400 as was to replace two teeth which had been knocked out when I was young. I think they charged Eu 400 per 'unit' ie crown or replacement tooth, and yes, they have to shave down the teeth on either side, regardless of condition - mine were fine