I need a new front tooth after loosing one in a bike accident. The options are dental plate (not keen) a bridge, this involves grinding down two good teeth to glue to (not sure) or a dental implant (kin expensive).
Any advice people?

If the dental implant is when they put a pin in the bone then put a ceramic tooth in the gap. Then i have one.

It does the job. Feels odd at times and wasn’t fun to get done and it was pretty pricey.

Yup – I’ve got two implants – both upper front teeth. I had a road / face interface after coming off of my bike that resulted in no front teeth at the top and a broken jaw.

I would recommend them – my first one didn’t go according to plan (“normal” dentist fitted), but was sorted out after going to the local dental specialist after a referal.

I wouldn’t recommend wearing a plate as I had to wear one while things were settling down and it isn’t nice – too much faffing about with poligrip and looks plain wrong in the bathroom of a 30-year old!

Implant Pros – can’t feel them once they’ve settled down, treat them like normal teeth, never get cold teeth from icecreams!

Implant Cons – Hurts quite a bit going in, and may not ‘take’ – the bone has to grow onto the implant itself or it’ll just drop out, and they are very expensive. You’ll never be quite so carefree on a bike again ‘cos I’m pretty sure knocking an implant out would be even more painful than losing a normal tooth. I have a gumshield to wear cycling as I can’t afford to have them done again!

If you are going to have one done – make sure you find a reputable dental surgeon to do it – it hurts like **** having one taken out and replaced!

people can show videos of man getting hit in the bollocks, pictures of open leg wounds from crashes, and Im fine.
….but talk of teeth implants and facial bone makes me squirm 😕

have you had your breakfast Stoner?

here’s my face for you 🙂

and i’m off to the dentist today as i seem to have developed a massive crater in one of the teeth i damaged in the same crash

and note the full set of wisdom teeth 8)

Ive got lower wisdom teeth almost sitting at 90degrees.

One day my dentist keeps threatening they’re going to have to come out….
over my dead body…or general anaesthetic, which ever is easier 🙂

you’ll see i have a 90 degree one, it’s staying there unless my dentist admits that charging what he does for a 3 min checkup is a COMPLETE AND UTTER RIPOFF

i can count my own teeth thankyou

I have pretty high pain thresholds after the wires round the tops of my teeth in the x-ray above were removed with snips and pliers without anesthetic

you’ll see i have a 90 degree one

oh yeah.
Mines like that on both sides.

One of them got a hole in the top (effectively the sidewall) from the tooth above.
TYhat hole is now filled with crushed glass courtesy of a very nice and cheap hungarian dentist in north london on a sunday emergency filling! I think it cost £30 and its the best filling Ive got 🙂

did he use crushed Dreher beer bottles? that’d be good

I’ve just been looking at a friends implant base funnily enough. He’s had the metal bit implamanted and he’s just waiting for it to bed in now before getting a tooth attached. Apparently there’s a delay while the bone knits around the bit in your jaw….

I had a tooth pulled when it got cracked and I was asking him about getting an implant. The price alone was enough to scare me off.

Yes I have a front tooth implant.
They insert a piece of titanium into your jaw bone. After 6 months the calcium grows around it, and voila there is a screw fitted into this new piece of bone and the new tooth fitted into that. This all takes time so you will have to wear a plate. They take bone grafts too now, which is far better then the way I had it done.
This costs a fortune and done properly will NOT hurt. Mine was done in a surgical theatre. The only thing that was unpleasant were the injections, which had to be into the roof of your mouth ( not up the back of the tooth where it makes your mouth water).
However this was 9 years ago now and the procedure is better.

The bad thing for me is mine is now slightly loose, which I’m not happy about, but can’t afford to have it sorted, because like Stoner I am terrible at the dentist.
Also my skin above the implant came away after a few months and you can now see the base of the screw. So all the pictures they showed me were a waste of time. Luckily I’m not vain and smile away.

If you go ahead get a really good dentist that specialises in this procedure, or get a recommendation. I really wouldn’t go for the other options.

Good luck.

I have two, One front and One rear tooth. Got mine done in Hungary by a company called kreativ dental, not a worry at all. There facilities blew the NHS dentist away, the price is about a 3rd….. Investigate it. They have europeons from everywhere going there (Irish, Germans and Swede’s especially)

Stoner; I’ll sort your teeth out. I’ve got a Dremel and some Araldite.

And ittul save you money; I won’t charge, as I’ll take pleasure from doing the work…

Relax, Mr Stoner; this won’t hurt a bit…

And environmentally friendly, too, as I prefer to use organic free-range tools…

Open wide!

I can see myself having this done one day from old kick boxing days…

Gulp!

Ive got lower wisdom teeth almost sitting at 90degrees.

One day my dentist keeps threatening they’re going to have to come out….
over my dead body…or general anaesthetic, which ever is easier

I am having my impacted wisdom tooth out next week… managed to talk them into giving me a general anesthetic at least. 🙁

I’ve got a ti pin screwed into my jaw with a platinum, gold and ceramic crown sitting on top around what is left of my tooth after a botched root-canal filling
no anaesthetic, didn’t hurt at all just felt weird because the torque of the screw going in was making my head turn, but I had no idea why!
I don’t notice is at all now – cost £600 a few years back

One of my front teeth is an implant it’s a gold peg with the tooth built around it,and yes it is uncomfortable to get it done. Had it for about 15 years now with no problems and never even notice it unless someone mentions teeth.

Has anyone gone abroad to have it done?

My dentist reckons I should have/need one but can’t do it himself, although he has recommended someone local for circa £2k 😯

He also said it would be cheaper abroad, even with a couple of trips. What worries me is if something goes wrong – not much comeback I should imagine!

IMO – don’t go abroad.
A good implant surgeon will carry on seeing you for weeks, then months, then finally even a couple of years after the proceedure. So it may not be practical or affordable for you to have the aftercare that’s needed.

and note the full set of wisdom teeth

I always thought most guys had their wisdom teeth? And it was just women that mostly got them out due to having smaller mouths?

My dadas in the middle of having 6 fitted. He had the old one removed last friday and now has to wear temps for 6 months. Its costing £17,000!!!!!!!

i am in the process of having them done atm, i have the 2 implants in and am just waiting for them to knit to get my new teeth not painfull at all imo (and i really and a girl when it comes to pain)

i have braces on aswell to make the gaps the correct size for the impants (previously had baby teeth there) and that was much more painfull at the start lol

very expensive work, well that is unless your in the forces and get it for free lol

So it may not be practical or affordable for you to have the aftercare that’s needed.

That’s what I thought, especially if it doesn’t ‘take’ the first time.

very expensive work, well that is unless your in the forces and get it for free lol

Is that any work or does it have to be from ‘injuries sustained in the course of duty’ or health type stuff?

I had a front one done here in Spain, titanium screw and artificial bone graft.
It was expensive, about a grand, but totally painless.
If your going through any kind of pain then your dentist is crap. Even the injections, if done properly are barely noticeable.

is that any work or does it have to be from ‘injuries sustained in the course of duty’ or health type stuff?

all dential work is done by them inhouse but not everyone gets it i expect alot of the time it comes down to how many patients they have and how much of that years budget they have used lol, mine are replacment teeth because i had baby teeth nothing to do with my job, not injurys and no real health reasons.

i used to have a bridge but there rubish and kept falling out, so oneday my dentist said to me did i want to see a specialist and see if they would give me implants so i did, and they did lol

they also said there was no point in the implants on there own that they might as well straighten up my other teeth (even thou they were not that bad) with braces but that also allowed them to move my adult teeth to make room for proper sized teeth instead of the baby teeth.

horrible pic 😆 actually my friend has dental implants and not because of the accident, she just wanted to have a perfect smile and now she’s happy)

came off my road bike.into a wall.so needed new front teeth,again.
that was a year and a half ago.nearly finished now.
expensive at 3000eu,but the bike was fine.

had a bridge done about 6ys ago.now got implants.
go for the implants,the bridge was getting a bit loose.
implants feel much more solid.
I went toothless for about 4months,the dentist said it would be more solid to let it fuse without any pressure.looked a bit weird,but girls-oddly- seemed to like it.
(remember the line in pulp fiction?when he asks about the piercing?)

I wouldn’t go abroad.I thought about it,but it takes so long-repeat visits.lots of bother.
besides, how are you going to ask around in a place you don’t know?
price is harsh though.

and I don’t feel as confident dh as I used to.but maybe it comes back.

Hormel’s finest reported.

I have two implants at the front after some French Caaant elbowed me in the face at a football match 20 years ago beware that as you age you need to have these replaced due to discolouration of your natural teeth.
I also have a bridge at the back on the upper half which was tricky but worked really well. I have a good dentist who is also my sister, thing is she “experiments” with new proceedures on me and then invites all the other dentists in her practice to poke around, the price of free medicine!

I’ve had a bridge in my front teeth since I was assaulted on my bike 40 years ago, it has come adrift at one end so is only anchored by one incisor but still giving great service.

Check the age of the OP, guys.

Aged 13 I had a dental appointment during which I was told that I had perfect teeth (“just look after them son…”). Two weeks later I had a bike smash that blew two upper front teeth, roots n’ all, clean out of my mouth, leaving another shattered in half (the nerve had to be drilled out before they re-built it – for about five seconds, I thought my heart was going to stop). Thanks to a quick thinking friend who ran to a nearby dairy farm (this being on top of Mendip), the two teeth were put into some milk & re-implanted. Unfortunately, I then developed a nasty infection & they (& also the remaining broken tooth had to be removed). Whatever, it could have been much worse.

The subsequent bone loss and, er, vast gap meant that I’ve been wearing a denture ever since. Synthetic bone grafts & artificial implants are a very expensive possibility – but I’d rather spend the money on bike stuff, tbh! 😀

but girls-oddly- seemed to like it.

I don’t think it can be considered a general rule – although I have loved (& lost) the only Sandra Bullock lookalike who didn’t seem to mind. I doubt I’ll meet another.

Brainflex, if you are anywhere near Cambrdge I can recommend a damned good dentist that specialises in implants.

My SO was in a car accident when she was 16, knocked out 3 front teeth and damaged jaw quite a bit. She has been wearing a plate since (11years). Few months ago she went to the dental hospital and the dentist advised her that the techniques now exist for her to get implants.

She had the op about a month ago. All I know is that there is cow bone, pig membrane and titanium involved.
She’s got to wait another 5 months or so before she gets the implants and is still feeling uncomfortable and in a bit of pain. But even if she’s unhappy with the results, the outcome will still be better than her plate.

Oh…and it was all free :/

Got one about 7 years ago it is expensive, time consuming and uncomfortable at certain stages for a few days but absolutely worth it. I had the extraction and metal spikery done under sedation and i could not recommend this way enough. 6hours of dental surgery spli across two appointments (including a root filling) felt like 10 minutes each time. I am a total coward at the dentist and it did not worry me at all when the sedation kicked in.

I had a bridge. Because the tooth holding it eventually broke, I now have two teeth missing 😐

Love these threads 🙂

Had an implant in the upper front for 8 years now. Originally, the damage was done by a squash racquet but the kill stroke was a forehead in the pub.
Cost about 2k initially but is as strong, if not stronger, than any of the naturals.
Normal dentist noticed a bit of bone recession around it over the last couple of years so I’ve gone back to my man and whad’ya know, he’s trying to repair it under warranty! 8 years and he’s putting warranty on it. Imagine that in the bike industry!!!
I would find the cash and go with it. With the right Implatologist, obviously.
Anders Hjorst @ Surrey Implant Services. He’s got soft hands too 😀