Find me a dentist! Dentists?

Thanks!

Main dentist is a Spurs fan. Loves to talk about football.

Would recommend dentist holidays in Bonn if you need crowns and have time. Nice place to beer and ride bike, cheap travel, brilliant work.

That would add to the misery for me..

I lived in Bonn for several months, love that place.

Thanks but I am sticking with Halfmoon Dental in Herne Hill, they are pretty good and also not too spendy for private...

I have a good route there.

Is your route by the canal?

Lol.

How much for just a regular checkup, do you know? I might have to take back my positive comment about Halfmoon pending my conversation with their practice manager next week. Long story short, they wanted to charge me £20 no show fee for running a little late to my appointment and I didn't actually end up having my appointment. I have already paid the cost of appointment up front and when asked if I could have the rest of my money back they were being very evasive.

I don't have any on-going / half finished work with them so can easily take my money elsewhere...

DREDGE

Root canal or tooth out? It's a rear molar and I hate giving dentists my money.

Extraction would be over in one trip. Root canal is looking like four x 1.5 hours.

How does one find a decent dentist?

I have a dead and discoloured front tooth. It has been dead for a long time (30 years ish). It was drilled and filled at the time and has been fine since. It doesn't cause me any problems at all it is less pretty than the rest of me.

My own dentist sort of suggested something but somehow I lacked confidence that they were presenting me with all the options, just what their particular surgery was able to do, which is kind of fair enough, but I would like to know what the advantages/disadvantages of various approaches are. They thought they could do something with it, but also said I wouldn't be able to eat apples afterwards :-) Money is sort of no object here, I'd rather find the money and have something I am very happy with rather than make compromises.

NHS dentist on North end road in Fulham http://nhsdentist.com they're really great. I live in Hornsey but it's definitely worth crossing town to go there. They specialise in NHS service and only offer private care when it's actually needed (I had an implant there). I can't recommend them enough. You'll get better and cheaper care there than anywhere else in London, even the hygienist is only 35 quid.

Had a wisdom tooth pulled out this morning, was over the moon as those fuckers just don't fit in my jaw.
How long til the bugger settles down and stops bleeding intermittently?

Dredge-O-rama, anyone on here used InvisAlign braces?

Not used them personally but sort of know how they work, they are not the only system, there is Clearstep and others

My dentist recommended an orthodontist who specialises in them - I went to see him and he seems very clued up, so I'm now on my second set of aligners.

I had a brace when I was a kid, finding the experience of them the second time around much more interesting. However, my love of coffee is, erm, problematic.

Aligners sometimes leave teeth in a slightly unstable position and tend to spring back. Pay careful attention to what the orthodontist tells you about "retention" :)

I had a brace (train track style) when I was a kid, was never given a retainer which is why I now (30 years later) have Brace II - return of the brace.

My girlfriend has Invisalign, she’s finished the aligners and is on a retainer now but her teeth do look great. They weren’t bad before however.
I just know I’d constantly lose my retainers

This was the starting position:

This is the set for the end of July:

Got to aligner pair #12 today, and a visit to the orthodontist. Sadly he has called time on this treatment plan - he doesn't think that the bone is there in the lower jaw to allow the lower incisors to keep coming forwards, so we took a new X-ray, new scans, and he's going to come up with a new plan. This one is likely to see me losing a pre-molar in order to make some room, and bringing the upper teeth back much further than we had originally planned.

It's been a really interesting experience so far, seeing the scanners, the aligners themselves, and I've been impressed with the professionalism of the orthodontist and his team.

This is where we started from:

This is where we were going too (mid year next year would have been the finish line):

And this is where we've got too, and then had to stop (for now):

To give a better understanding of how far the lower incisors were planned to move, here's the starting point from above:

Goal:

Start (black) with goal (white) in same image:

Where we got too:

It's disappointing, but better to stop now than to have my lower incisors literally fall out of my jaw.

It'll be interesting to see the next plan.

That's a lot of movement / torque control for clear aligners.... Are you going for fixed braces, the normal type with brackets and wires?

No, only the clear aligners.

I have a sneaky feeling that you might have to have some attachments glued to your teeth to help the aligners guide the teeth better, for Invisalign anyway.

I work with orthodontists treating the most difficult cases so I am used to what traditional "train tracks" can do....