I need 5x implants but cheapest quote round here was £14k
They’re all army fillings that rotted and had to be pulled but in different places so chewing is still fine.
Be fucked if I’m coughing up £14k to some robbing dentist cunt, fuckers are as bad as vets.
Vets & Dentists are both useful reminders of how all healthcare will be if it’s ever fully privatised.
Worth remembering that it’s where Farage & Tice would have us go.
I have 2 implants, by far the most painless part of my orthodontic/ dentistry journey. Worth the money to fill the gaps without having to wear a plate and keeps my bite stable.
A friend went to Goa three years running and had the lot done. I think at a ¼ of the price. Each time, he convalesced on the beach for a couple of weeks.
My wife’s great granny had her teeth removed and replaced with wooden ones as a 21st birthday present
I was just quoted just under £9k for 3 to be done.
I hadn’t thought of travelling abroad for them to be done, mind you the airport and flying experience is worse than the dentist these days.
I’ve had one in place of an accident broken tooth for around 10 years. Don’t notice it as different to any of the other teeth.
I’ve got 5 upper front teeth supported on 3 implants, cost £9k in 2017 with my dentist doing as much as possible on the NHS. and an implantologist coming from Bolton to Wirral to do the deed. It’s a long job with a lot of appointments but I don’t regret it for a minute and there’s no way I’d have it done any other way.
Just what you pay when a well qualified person in a nice building with adequately paid staff and heating, rates etc to pay for. We are lulled into a false sense of value by the NHS being paid out of our taxes.
Nowhere near as bad as legal advice, or medical will be if people are gullible enough to vote Reform in.
3K for x1 raw plug & a screw is excellent business.
Enjoy your crumbling Hampsteads 
Good luck getting an implant on the NHS.
I don’t object to contributing to the costs but when I’m paying for health insurance (NI) at approx £85 per month and I can’t “make a claim” let alone sign up to an NHS dentist
That’s a smidge shit
I thought only about 20% of NI gets put toward the NHS. The bulk goes to state benefits such as pensions. Most NHS funding comes from general taxation
Yep 20-24% of NI goes to the NHS, that is what I based my figure on
Implants are only authorised on the NHS following severe facial injury or oral cancer requiring major reconstruction.
I don’t have an issue with this.
I don’t expect to get an implant on the NHS, otoh I don’t expect running a dentistry business is cheap so the fee doesn’t seem that outrageous to me compared to lawyers, for example.
It is bizarre, IMO, that state pensions are listed as “benefits” when you pay in for decades and what you get is determined by how many contributions you make. Mind you it is pityfully little compared to other European countries so it is like being on benefits, I suppose.
If you were near Manchester this is the man
Dr David Rhodes
Principal Dentist
David Rhodes is one of the region’s foremost Dental Surgeons. David qualified from Manchester University School of Dentistry with a Bachelor of Science degree in Dental Surgery where he achieved a distinction. David has a Master of Science degree in Implant Dentistry gained at Warwick University and holds a Certificate at Masters Level in Learning and Teaching in Clinical Practice gained from the University of Liverpool.David is an Associate Fellow and the North West regional tutor for the University of Warwick. The first year of the Master of Science Degree in Implant Dentistry from the University of Warwick is delivered by David at Chorlton Private Dental Practice which is a Centre of Excellence for the University.David is a tutor for GIFT the largest provider of implant training for dental surgeons in the UK.David is an Honorary Clinical Teaching Fellow in implant dentistry for the University of Manchester on their MSc programme and a clinical mentor for the Association of Dental Implantology.David has been the Clinical Director of Chorlton Private Dental Practice since 1983 and introduced implants into the practice in 1991.
I don’t think that’s the case any more. There is no SERPS - as long as you have enough years of contributions, you get the full pension. And you get contributions for maternity, university, benefits etc
Does he have any time to actually do any dentistry ?
