DIY dental tourism?

There are reports of UK denists complaining about fixing problems following work done overseas. You could try using Google or similar.

Is the person who said you 'need' two implants the same person who quoted £6k?

If so, ask another dentist before you go down the foreign route.

Another Dave

I had a friend who had the whole set done in Turkey very cheaply, from memory not much more than 6K, they are massively too white, but apart from that seem OK.

I had two implant and several crowns fitted in 2005, the dentist (Dr Dr Atilla Karman) teaches implant fitting internationally, I notice he/they now have an office in London.

Until earlier this year I hadn't had any issues with the crowns, after

You may need two or more visits, if the bone isn't strong enough to bear teeth straight away.

You could try France.

I needed some treatment several years back, not major, but I was shocked how cheap it was. They refused my EHIC card ( pre Brexit before anyone mentions it). The cost was so modest I didn’t even both claiming on my travel insurance.

Plus, I got an appt the next day, on a Sat morning.

Mr brother had his implants done in Turkey (started just before their inflation rate hit around 85%). He had to make 3 visits but treated them as two week holiday each time. The initial price for all visits was honoured and he said for the dental work it was about 40% of the price he was quoted in the UK. Add the cost of the flights and accommodation. He was treated in a large facility that only catered for dental work, mainly cosmetic.

His first visit resulted in a very bruised face as they had problems removing a tooth that had brocken near the gum line.

Turkey seems to get a bad rep lately "turkey teeth" stories in the tabloids, I didn't accept the "free" whitening treatment while I eas there, and had the crowns made to match my off-white teeth.

Mine was 1 million forints (the exchange rate then was 350 HUF to 1 GBP, now it's closer to 450 HUF, not sure what's happened to their prices since then, especially with opening a UK surgery)

flights were 15p (plus taxes) at the time with Wizz Air, on first visit the dentists provided an apartment, afterwards hotels were cheap, n.b. it's bloody cold there in Winter.

For real DIYers it costs a few pence and just half an hour of time, if a non-permanent "tooth" is acceptible. Starting with a translucent hot-melt glue stick and kids crayons, white, yellow, salmon, brown, grey in that order of amounts to colour match to existing teeth. A small bit of chewing gum, not usually needed for a single false tooth. Non of the ridiculous farting about , and big bucks , for a totally failed one in my case in the UK, and so never repeated, one bitten twice shy

That price seems high, even with inflation. It was around £2.5k per tooth including extraction, or £4.5k for a joined pair 18 months ago at my dentist, and that was a very comprehensive procedure with many visits including fitting temporary acrylic tops to see how you like the fit and shape for a few months and how well you're cleaning them before the ceramic ones were milled and fitted. It wasn't the 6 hours and it's all done type job.

I had a molar done just before Covid-19, it was about 3k, including £400 for genetically altered pig bone. Which was required to pack the hole the NHS dentist had made pulling the old tooth out (I hope never to hear a dentist say stubborn again).

I needed a bone graft for one of my implants, no extra charge, followed by a 6 month wait for the crown to be fitted, strange feeling having your jaw bashed with a stainless steel hammer and chisel, I was told it was cow bone, but it doesn't seem to have done me any harmooo.

That's interesting. Which part of the country was it? By "my dentist" do you mean the company "My Dentist"?

My wife has several implants. To fill an existing hole they took bone from further along her jaw. Wait of several weeks for this to settle down before the actual implants. Finchley Road, North London but a while back now.

sounds like a pig of a job then!

This was some specific process where the dentist mixed my DNA with some pig bone, or pig something or other (maybe bone growth cells) in a fancy machine. An alternative, some kind of calcium compound filler, Polyfilla?, was offered for £150, and then not mentioned again. I was suspicious, and it niggled me at the time, like all Victor Meldrew types I will take the niggle to the grave.

I think they always leave about 6 months between putting the implant foundation in, and fitting the post and crown.

I think they are around 20-25k for a full set top and bottom in the UK. I wonder how much maintenance they require?

Those are the sort of prices my sister paid earlier this year for a pair of implants. She made about six visits because the dentist, who came highly recommended, wanted to proceed cautiously allowing any reaction from each visit to settle down.

I am not sure the NHS would put right implants done abroad, as I believeit doesn't provide implants at all.

I had my first implant 25 years ago. The crown has fallen off once, a couple of years ago. Apart from that, no maintenance. I'm not sure if it would be the same for a full set.

When the crown fell off, the dentist wanted to know the type of implant I had, each type requires different tools. Which given I had it done 25 years ago, I didn't have a clue. The crown is held to the post mainly by friction, every time it comes off the post becomes less effective, so at some point it may need replacing. I don't know how I will identify the type of the post, if that occurs. It seems irresponsible that details are not stored somewhere.

When mine fell off, I put it back on and booked an urgent appointment, kept expecting it to fall off again, but it didn't, in fact the dentist couldn't got it off, sent me away, then of course it came off again the next day, so I left it off and went back a day later for it to be re-cemented ... thinking about it, the crown that fell off wasn't directly on an implant, it was on a tooth ground down to a "peg".

I have a little "passport" document stating implant types and dates (camlog) and bone graft (bio-oss) I have it filed away.