Looking for top notch dentist in Northern Ireland for front teeth crowns!!!

swanangel

Hi all,

Please can you help, I need crowns in my top front teeth - the front six.

I have to go to Northern Ireland because it's too expensive everywhere else, I got a loan which I will be paying off for about five or six years and still need to save a bit for added extras, so with the money and the fact that it's my front teeth I really need good recommendations please?
It would help also if the dentist is nice and maybe opens some Saturdays so I don't need to take so much time off work but these would be just a bonus, I really just want a great cosmetic dentist for crowns.

If anyone has any advice on what types of crowns would be best or you have had crowns on your front teeth and can tell me about them, how long they have lasted, can you see metal, what other types there are, costs you paid etc that would be great.

Thanks for any info you may PM me, take care.:o

btkm8unsl0w5r4

You can get crowns just a cheep in the ROI now as in northern Ireland if you look around, the problem is that cheap crowns are generally not of high quality or high aesthetics. Also great dentists or prosthodontists (cosmetic specialists) will tend not to be the cheapest in town.

swanangel

Thanks Fitzgeme.
Unfortunately I can't afford the best here, I searched around Dublin & close to home but they still seem to be quite a lot more expensive, I need some posts and cores too, I think that's what there called I must check out my treatment plan again.

If I could afford the best here I would go but more then likely I will just be living loan to loan to get them replaced every how ever many years, it's upsetting but I can only get what I can afford to pay for it's not option to get the best of the best really so I'm just hoping to find the best recommendation on here and then price it with the dentist and see if I can go there.

If you can recommend dentists in the Republic that are the same as NI please do, I'm very young but my dentist in NI said if he didn't know my age he would say my teeth age is 50, I have nearly every tooth filled, a lot of root canals, I just can't afford really good dental treatment and speaking about it now is actually upsetting me, I wish all the time I could afford it and couldn't even get the full loan, usually people cry on the way to or in the dentist I cry after because I just wish my smile was better.

peggie

hi,
i'm not too aware of dublin dental hospital but i do know they train
prosthodontists (cosmetic dentists) it may be worth investigating how to become a post-graduate-student's patient, these guys would be qualified dentists who are doing extra training in crowns etc, it may take a bit longer but as they are supervised and training to be expert in that area i would think they should be able to give you a smile you'd be proud of perhaps at an affordable price,
as i say i don't know dublin dental hospital but can't hurt to enquire, i would expect you'd still have to pay but they may have a payment plan?

i hope you succeed in getting the smile you want
best of luck
peg

swanangel

NI is out the window lads, Super Dublin dental treatment found!:D

CuriousGeorge10

Can you tell me the place you found? Need to get one of my front teeth crowned!!

swanangel

Private mail sent CuriousGeorge10

problemchimp

swanangel wrote: »

NI is out the window lads, Super Dublin dental treatment found!:D

I use a dentist in Crossmaglen in South Armagh but if you could p.m. me your new dentist I would be very grateful. Cheers.

swanangel

PM on the way ProblemChimp

Roscoe69

Hi Swanangel... front tooth crown required too... would appreciate a good recommendation by pm!

swanangel

Will send a PM now Roscoe69:D

capefear

swanangel would you send me on the details as well. cheers

pentire

Hi Swanangle, could you PM me with the details. Would be very grateful as both my partner and i are considering getting some work done and neither of us want to go abroad to do this.


cheers

swanangel

PM's should be with you now guys best of luck

lizmer

Hi Swanangel, need four front crowns... would appreciate a reccommendation also. Cheers

granma

CuriousGeorge10 wrote: »

Can you tell me the place you found? Need to get one of my front teeth crowned!!

could you sent me details as well please! Thanks

swanangel

I'm starting to feel so popular on here, ha ha!:P Private mails sent.

BO-JANGLES

Can you please pm me too? Need bridging work done. Thanks. Bo-Jangles

Jimdagym

Can i get that too?

I've used a place in newry and liked it, but I'd much rather keep my money down south.

Susie564

swanangel wrote: »

I'm starting to feel so popular on here, ha ha!:P Private mails sent.

Ha ha - I'll bet! That practice is going to do well out of you too you should ask for commission!

beatrice33

swanangel wrote: »

I'm starting to feel so popular on here, ha ha!:P Private mails sent.

Hi swanangel,

could I get the details as well? i need a crown on my front tooth.

cheers

Poutbutton

Hi, so glad to hear you found a Dublin based one. I'd like a PM too if you wouldn't mind and I hope you come on & tell us of your experience as you go through it, might put ease the fear for others

granma

hi swanangel,

Thanks for contact details. Have not had appointment yet but prices on web site look expensive?

swanangel

So just to update on my progress, I am booked in next week for the crown prep, 6 front teeth, eeekkkk!:eek:
I am also going to get whitening done, I had never considered getting this done before as fillings don't whiten so it would of made the fillings in my teeth (the white ones at the front obviously) look more noticeable, unless I went and got them all redone.

I went in and had impressions made of my teeth a couple of weeks ago, they fit me in at lunch time which was great and it wasn't bad, I thought I might gag or feel really choked but it only takes a minute and he kinda talked to me as he was doing it as he telling me it would be only another ten seconds etc, I need the whole gentle reassurance thing so I don't feel anxious.

The last few weeks but I started to wonder if I had made the right decision, I thought do I really need them? It wasn't a question of the money, it's just I kept thinking why don't I just keep getting them filled or maybe veneers would be better, seeing on-line how much tooth structure they take away was scary and I never really thought I would have any money to get them done so when it became 'real' all these other worries came about!:(

I spoke with my Prosthodontist today and he said it is the best option to get crowns, I could keep getting them filled but that's not the best option for the teeth long term and I am missing a lot of tooth structure anyway because of all the fillings. I mean I am not worried that they won't look nice or anything, I just want to make sure I do whats best for my natural teeth long term, if the best thing was to leave them as they are even though they don't look the best I would, but crowns seem to be the way to go for my poor abused teeth.

Also, just to add when I rang today with my concerns I told the receptionist what the story was and asked could I come see the Prosthodontist again and he actually rang me back later to speak with me about it so I told him all the above and he was very nice and straight forward too.

I hope this helps anyone thinking about getting crowns, I will update as I go on and let you know what it is all like.

annabelle79

swanangel sounds like you have same problem as me, all my dental problems are all my own fault, and its so bad now that I cry when I see myself smiling.

If you could pm me your dentist also I would be very interested.

swanangel

Aww God I feel so sad for you, it's a horrible feeling and I bet you can't even laugh properly because you are afraid of people seeing them I keep blaming myself too and most people would say it must be your own fault you should of looked after them but it is not always that straight forward other issues in life can affect your dental care, I saw your other post too your having an awful time, I will PM you now and we can have a chat and I will send details on for ya.

Graham_B18C

Could i get the details for this Place too please?

shoes34

HI,

could I also, have to get a tooth extracted and a little scared to be honest.

Thanks.

carcum

Hi Swanangel,

Could you please pm me the name of your dentist also? I have been looking up dentists for ages! Need to get front two teeth crowned or veneered- don't really know which option is best for me! Thanks )

swanangel

So I got my crown prep done yesterday, the whole thing on the 6 front teeth took less then three hours and it flew by really, had a little break in between to rest my jaw etc and the dental team need breaks too ya know!
Took some painkillers as the numbness wore off as all around my gums were tender and a little sore, but I wouldn't call it pain so don't worry!

So in my mind it went like this below, maybe not in this order as I wasn't exactly taking notes while in the chair but this is what it felt like for me as a patient in the chair!
I am sure dental trained people would laugh but this is all I felt was going on even though I know it was much more technical and difficult for those doing the work.

1.Numb up
2.Prep teeth by drilling and shaping
3.Put little moulds in and out
4. Pressing around the gums
5. Louder type drill for a minute or two
6.Put the mouth shaped trays in mouth with putty stuff inside them to take a mould shape of my upper&lower teeth.
7. Close jaw, open jaw, chomp down a few times, repeat.
8.Rinse mouth out, go home.

I couldn't stop crying when I woke up yesterday because I was nervous, but mostly because I would just love not to have to get crowns in the first place, keep worrying about the future and money because obviously they don't last forever but that's that. Sob!:(

So if anyone is going in to get crowns and is worried about pain, don't be, it wasn't painful at all, after the first two injections I didn't feel the others he gave me, although I did still hold the dental nurses hand cause I hate injections.
I would say it is more annoying then anything else, just the sound of the drill really but not painful, your gums get poked around a bit so that can be uncomfortable, they were putting teeth shaped moulds in and out of mouth but if they hadn't of told me what they were doing I wouldn't even have known.

At one stage during the break the dental nurse asked if I wanted to look at my teeth and I thought she was gone mad, I didn't actually realise until she said they look really nice that the temporary crowns were on ha, I thought it was the shaved down teeth she was talking about!

Now the temp crowns do not look as good as the real stuff so don't freak out and think the end result will be like them, my real crowns will take 3 to 4 weeks to be made, I am going on hols in late August so I keep thinking of that as my end point, while I am waiting on them they also said to get my teeth whitened so they are making me bleaching trays to wear at night and I will go back for an in office bleaching.

Today I still don't have any pain, up above my teeth is tender still but that's to be expected. I'm not taking painkillers or anything I just have to be gentle while brushing the area, it kinda feels like when you touch a bruise so unless you have the lowest threshold for pain ever and can't press a bruise without crying I would say all is grand.

Be back in a few weeks with update, hope I am helping anyone who is nervous of getting them!:D

conbob

Hi Swanangel. Could you PM me with the details of the place? Going to have to go to the dentists soon. Thanks