Dental Implant on a front tooth to a teenager

Why did you think Gransnet would be a good place to ask for expert advice on dental matters, swind0wn?

I know we have at least one (retired?) dental practitioner member, but as for the rest of us...

JaneA one for you!

Hi swin0down ouch for the teeth! Those questions are pretty technical, did the dentist who gave you all that info have a view on what would be the best thing to do?

Hello Swind0wn
I'm a retired dentist. You should really take the advice of the implantologist you have seen. If you're not happy with that implantologist, ask for a second opinion from someone else.
I'm afraid no-one can give you an opinion without examining you and knowing your full dental history.

Please Note: The same implant person advised me to extract the tooth and do it as soon as possible due to me damaging the bone every time I bite on the tooth (no matter whether it is accidentally). This scared me since I need the bone as healthy as possible as that is where the implant would be attached.

Thanks for your replies. The person who told me to go ahead and do it (implant person I was going on about) was a young man around 30 years of age and he works part time in a dentist place in Hammersmith, London.

The reason why I am asking around is to get more points of view from different people in order to educate my potential decision. If I find no luck, I would have to go a different place and see what they will say as I really do not want to let the situation remain hit and miss. The only problem I have with that is obviously the cost of it - around £100 for a consultation here in London.

P.S. I have absolutely no idea what this website is about, however I found a similar thread here in the forum so I decided to go ahead.

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Ask you NHS dentist to refer you to your nearest dental hospital ASAP. You will have to pay huge fees from a private practice. As your problem was caused by an accident you qualify to have this work done under the NHS.
I don't know where you are in the country but most large cities have a teaching hospital which is where all the best consultant are. Two good hospitals that I know are Manchester and Liverpool. Good luck.

How nice that a teenager turns to us for help and advice when he needs it. When so often older people are marginalised, to be seen asathe group able to advise is a real confidence booster.

I do, in fact share Swind0wn's worries. I had a tooth break this week. I went to my dentist. who looked at it, look worried, said the problem lay not only with the tooth that broke but the one each side. We discussed a range of treatments but in the end decided that what was left of the tooth (very little) will need to come out and then we have to decide on implants, bridge or denture.

My instinct, and possible Swindown may consider this, is; if something major has to happen, to your teeth or anything else. Do it. Get it over and done with and move on. Temporary fixes just add delay and mean giving lots of thoughts, worries and time, while you delay the inevitable.

After running through a host of temporary options my dentist looked really relieved when I just said take the tooth out and then we will consider the options for permanent replacement

Ii appears that Swindown is London based so his best option is to get his dentist to refer him to the dental school in Grays Inn Road near Kings Cross. It is NHS and he will get the best treatment and advice there.

This is an old thread - I hope swind0wn has found a satisfactory solution to his dental problem now.