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Eating breakfast!
One of the molars, top right. It had been filled for years, and now half the front portion is sitting on my desk. Any ideas how much I'll be looking at to get it fixed? If I can't afford it, would the be any problems getting the tooth taken out in the chair? (I've had a wisdom tooth out before)
Just like to prepare myself before visiting the surgery this morning! And what's the likelihood of getting it fixed before next Tuesday?
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Hard luck Kwilter - from my experience my dentist costs £70 just to walk through the door
!! Unfortunately though, because I live quite remotely there are only 2 practise's within a 70 mile radius and they are both private so I have no choice!
As to getting it removed - generally dentists will do anything to save a tooth but about 2 years ago I had a hole in my tooth which the dentist identified. Apparently, it needed "bridging" - I didn't know there was a hole (no pain, infection etc) let alone that it needing "bridging" - at a cost of over £200. It would cost £80 to remove it so as it was right at the back and I didn't feel I'd miss it I decided to have it removed. It wasn't painful but was traumatic.........after about 20mins of dentist virtually with his foot on my chest trying to lever the offending tooth out he stopped........then disappeared out of the room muttering "I'll just go and get the big man from downstairs......." It wasn't a pleasant experience and quite funny on reflection - the dentist was the skinnyest most weak looking bloke I've ever seen and I never knew how long molars roots are!
My dentist does allow you to pay monthly - but you're not kidding - it ain't cheap!!
A few months back I chewed a nice chewy mint and had half a tooth come off. Lower jaw molar, more filling than tooth. Not in pain but the tooth needed fixing. Dentist saw me next morning, did some drilling and fitted a temporary crown. Properly crowned tooth a couple of weeks later. Can't remember the exact cost but somewhere between £350 and £400. I couldn't help thinking what would happen if I couldn't afford that kind of money. And where NHS dentistry went.
Anyway, hope this helps. I'm in Reading, probs a bit pricier than Plymouth.
Oh poor you!
NHS treatment falls into 3 bands - £12 for check -up x-rays and scale, £39 for any fillings or extractions whether you need 1 or 10! and £177 for any crown bridge work or dentures, again regardless of how many you need.
If your dentist is private, prices can vary quite a bit.
Upper wisdom teeth are usually easier to extract than lowers, however it depends how broken down the tooth is.
Hope you get on ok. Good luck!!
Sounds like root canal work to remove the tooth!
I was 'in the chair' for two and 1/2 hours. New crown fitted after having a tempoary one for 3 weeks and £250.00 later!
And that was on the NHS!!! Bliddy good dentist though! Didn't feel a thing, apart from when the cheque book was opened! 
No it wasn't, Prince S!
(a dentist writes from his 14 bedroom mansion etc etc
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NHS prices are currently as follows (give or take pence)
Band 1 (check up, scale and polish, x rays) £16.20
Band 2 (fillings, root fillings, extractions) £44.60
Band 3 (crowns, bridges, dentures) £198
You pay for the highest band only (ie band 3 includes any band 1 or 2 treatments)
teeth often break, usually as a result of mechanical failure where they've been weakened by a filling in the past.
Minor breaks can be filled. More serious breaks need crowns. Sometimes the break has occurred because the nerve has died and the tooth is brittle or the break is severe enough to involve the nerve chamber. these need a root filling before a crown. Rarely, the tooth may split straight down the middle and need to be extracted.
Hope that helps a bit
Yep, I think it might be...
English Parliament, anyone?
Sorry to sort of hijack the thread, but I've got to have my first ever filling on Thursday.
Basically it's on a wisdom tooth, I can pay £30 extra to have it white instead of silver, is it worth paying the extra? Will it be noticeable?
It will depend on where the filling is on the tooth, and how large, as to how noticable it will be.
I gradually getting my metal fillings replaced with white ones, as they need doing.
Jimo, get the dentist to show you where the filling is while you look in a mirror, then assess whether or not it'll show.
Well I would say I have teeth like a gopher rather than a hippo.
I don't think it'll be that big, the dentist says he won't fully know until he starts.
That's a good idea Crash Hamster, the dentist actually did advise that a silver should be fine.
Cheers peeps!
Sorry if this has been mentioned before...but did you do it eating a perticular product? The firm I work for frequently pay dental fees for people who claim to have broken a tooth/filling while eating one of our products- no quibbles
Claims direct K
Heheheheeeheheh
Take the deal...I'm always surprised that they pay out for teeth broken on cereal (lumps of rock in it is a different story)...the damage is often done to a tooth days or weeks before the actual break; it's the 'straws and camels backs' principle.
If I'd broken a tooth, I'd blame the cereal it snapped on; if I was a cereal manufacturer, I'd claim it failed due to years of wear and tear and that our cereal just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time...
...impossible to prove either way...