Dentists

[Demon]

I'm posting this thread purely to make me feel better about my visit to mine this afternoon.

£190... For a checkup and a polish. £190! £190!

Nothing wrong with my teeth so that's literally the best it was ever going to be.

£190 flipping quid!

Normal checkup and 5 min titivation - £75 for me..

Last month I was due new X-Rays, the total bill with checkup/polish/x-rays was £100

I'd phone around a few dentists and get some prices.. I was lucky, our most local is in our village and seem very reasonable.

 

[Nitefly]

If you don’t go NHS then you are basically privately hiring a surgical doctor and a nurse. Varying quality of course!

Also, on brushing teeth, not a sponsored plug but the latest and greatest Oral B toothbrushes are amazing - iO8 I think. They are expensive at £180 ish but they have a polish setting and I can visibly see my teeth becoming whiter when I use it. Highly recommended! Be careful though and start off on the standard setting as even that will bleed your gums to shreds if they aren’t used to it

 

[BUDFORCE]

The best way to look after your teeth is avoiding sugary/acidic food.

Im fortunate that I don't have a sweet tooth and I don't particularly like apples and oranges those things rot your teeth.

 

[glenimp617]

Jesus, my last checkup and polish was about £20 something

and no that wasn't in the 1980s lol it was last Febuary

 

[Nutty667]

Aren't you supposed to wear retainers at night afterwards forever?

That's what I was told.

When I heard that, I was like "well that ain't happening for a start!"
Honestly at my age, nearly 50, I'm happy with the alignment of the my teeth the way they are. Straighter teeth ain't gonna make me look any better.

 

[unwashed potato!]

Aren't you supposed to wear retainers at night afterwards forever?

I guess it depends for each person, but definitely there will be some that it's just not enough of a worry to do this fir the rest of their life. Worst case they move a bit and you have another course many years in the future. I know I certainly wouldn't be wearing a retainer for the rest of my life at night

 

[Nabinium]

They are expensive at £180 ish but they have a polish setting

Never knew these settings actually made a difference to be honest. I had an iO9 for around that price a couple years ago, but it ended up breaking outside of warranty, so I thought there's no point me spending £££ on a fancy toothbrush again. Got an iO6 or something for around £60 on Black Friday last year, which doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but it shows you how hard you're brushing, a screen with a timer and a couple different settings. I just find the more expensive ones that come with Bluetooth and all that stuff is pointless for just brushing your teeth well.

 

[unwashed potato!]

Never knew these settings actually made a difference to be honest. I had an iO9 for around that price a couple years ago, but it ended up breaking outside of warranty, so I thought there's no point me spending £££ on a fancy toothbrush again. Got an iO6 or something for around £60 on Black Friday last year, which doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but it shows you how hard you're brushing, a screen with a timer and a couple different settings. I just find the more expensive ones that come with Bluetooth and all that stuff is pointless for just brushing your teeth well.

100 percent. I get the £30 electric toothbrush and use it until it does. Any extra features are just gimmicks to charge more.

 

[Freefaller]

And here I am thinking that £65 was a lot

 

[Chrisc]

The best way to look after your teeth is avoiding sugary/acidic food.

Im fortunate that I don't have a sweet tooth and I don't particularly like apples and oranges those things rot your teeth.

i had to stop eating apples, i used to have two or three every morning on the way to work.

the dentist told me it had eaten away my enamel and if i insisted on eating so much fruit, i should also eat cheese with it as it neutralises the acidity.

i still eat a lot of fruit though

 

[Nabinium]

i had to stop eating apples, i used to have two or three every morning on the way to work.

the dentist told me it had eaten away my enamel and if i insisted on eating so much fruit, i should also eat cheese with it as it neutralises the acidity.

i still eat a lot of fruit though

Maybe mix up the fruit you have. 1 apple and a different fruit, like a banana or something else.

 

[Chrisc]

I had a root canal done on one of my front teeth which id never had a problem with. Since he did it about 10yrs ago, its always given me grief and is so sensitive. its also started with internal staining which has really Pee'd me off as there is very little i can do about it.

im sure some of these Dentists do work for the fun of it.

 

[Chrisc]

Maybe mix up the fruit you have. 1 apple and a different fruit, like a banana or something else.

i rarely eat apples now, and very much so mix it up.

 

[Cromulent]

The price might be annoying but your health comes first

True. I guess I need to man up.

 

[Noxia]

I paid £150 for last checkup and hygenist, it's gone up a bit but some things I really don't mind paying for when it comes to health.

 

[RxR]

I once wrote a little song for dentists as part of a project in the early 00's:

With your inner Grinner jolly
It's easy to find friends
To pass away the time of day
And even make amends
So let me introduce you to
The best one of mine!
Captain Ivor-E Double C dot Shine
He's the elephant of ivory
The prince of oral pearls
He fixes all the teeth
Of all the boys and girls!
So they're laughing and singing
All around the world!
Yes, they're laughing! And singing
All around the world!

But more to the point, I fell down the stairs 3 weeks ago and broke off half of a front tooth. I got a quote for a couple of tooth extractions and a partial denture...cost: $3100. A bit steep.

 

[CircleFaust]

£1k this year for a root canal, that was just the root canal and filling the existing tooth (no crown). if i had needed a crown it would have been another £xxx quid on top of that. just shocking prices
yeah, i should have been a dentist for sure

 

[jaybee]

Ah the Invisalign scam pricing.

I had some relapse on one of my teeth, so asked for a price to just nudge it back to place... 4k... yea.

Can you tell me what you mean about it being a scam? Have you had invisalign done?

 

[Nitefly]

100 percent. I get the £30 electric toothbrush and use it until it does. Any extra features are just gimmicks to charge more.

I don’t know if the most expensive options make a meaningful difference beyond the mid range but don’t cheap out and think they are the same (‘a stick that vibrates’).

A good electric toothbrush will absolutely make a difference in my personal experience and my own dentist said that the new oral B ones were, quote, revolutionary.

@Nabinium yeah the polish setting 100% makes a difference. It sort of pulses to a very high max speed. Again, total gum wrecker if you aren’t careful.

 

[BUDFORCE]

i had to stop eating apples, i used to have two or three every morning on the way to work.

the dentist told me it had eaten away my enamel and if i insisted on eating so much fruit, i should also eat cheese with it as it neutralises the acidity.

i still eat a lot of fruit though

Yup be careful.

Although this is a bit extreme,guy over the road does a lot of driving for his job, I think out if boredom and he likes them, he used to eat a lot of apples, like a bag of them most days, used to eat the cores and everything.

He got liver failure from the cyanide in the pips.

Fortunately I think..... He is going to be ok in the long run, but his doctor was convinced the guy had a drinking problem until they eventually figured out what caused it.