tooth implant in India??

aventura

Hello everybody!

Here is my case..
In my mouyh on the side i have a tooth from when i was a child, we call it here a milktooth, this is one that should fall out when you are little and a new one grows out.
The fact is that that never happened with me, so i am still having this babytooth wich is now after 34 years a bit getting loose and will fall out in maybe 1 year or so.

My dentist can get it fixed with an implant, he gave me the price for this 1715 euros
I get crazy from this. It is all the money I have at the moment.
It would mean that i will not be able to go to India this winter!!!!!!

So I wonderd, could there be somewhere in India a place where there are trained dentists who can perform good implantoperations??????

raaz

hello aventura , there r a lot of dentists that can do the implant for you in india for a fraction of cost what u hv mentioned above in post....i myself get my dentist work done whenever i visit india...but i cant remember the add somehow..(that was in delhi)...but i am sure other members will be able to share their experiences....n offer to more advice

aventura

I just read the other thread about dentist hygiene....
This implantstuff is a risky operation and the dentist needs to be a well trained specialist, I couldnt find anything surfing on the internet in India.
They do recommand these operations in Istanbul and bulgarye.

ba9rn

Why not go for a bridge, rather than an implant (in Holland or India). Cheaper and less painful!

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Nick-H

Having had two implants placed, I can say that it is not at all painful. Even the cutting of the gum left me sore only for a few hours.

There are plenty of dentists in India specialising in this procedure.

In fact, there is probably no specialist medical or dental procedure available outside of India that you cannot find here.

Aishah's thread about dental hygiene is not talking about the relatively expensive big-city dental clinics.

If you want, the private hospitals like Apolo whcih are now getting international reputation also have dental clinics.

You will find good hygiene and good practice and plush, well-equipped and staffed clinics here. My Chennai dentist does not work with a nurse; he works with an assistant dentist... the one who was working with him when I last visited was trained at Barts in London.

Now for the down side, and the reason why I got my implants done (at huge expense) in London...

Implants mean a number of visits to your dentist. After the initial conversations, recommendations etc he will drill and place the implant. This has to be left to allow the bone to 'accept' it for around six months --- then only he will place the crown on the implant.

You should not be too far away from your dentist for a couple of weeks after the implant is placed. Nothing went wrong with mine, but I still needed reassurance from my dentist that everything was ok. After the crown is placed you may need to revisit your dentist to see how it is settling in. Add the flights and the accomodation and you might not save that much!

At the time, I expected quite a lot of pain/discomfort, so I didn't feel like being alone in a hotel room. Actually I was quite wrong and never took even one of the heavy duty just-in-case pain killers I persuaded my dentist to prescribe for me.

I was concerned at the time that my immune system was not so attuned to India... even a tummy upset might not have been a lot of fun.

That was my reasoning then. In retrospect, I would have got it done here.

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aventura

Wow nick H
Thanx for your long answer!

So you would say its as good in India as it would be in Europe...
Well I know also about the lets say 8 times coming back in 5 months, so that would mean i would be stuck around one place, not able to travel far.
That is something that i wouldnt like to much.
Apolo private hospitals I will check them out online.

@ba9rn, I think that a bridge is not possible in my case helas!

Nick-H

I'd say it could be. I'd say you could get a bad dentist in Europe too... My Indian dentist has sorted out several things that were done badly to me by British dentists over the years.

Trouble is, with these things one tends not to find out for a long time if it was good or bad!

My Indian dentist re-crowned all my teeth to correct my bite, and did a pretty good job. He did one bridge more recently that I'm 20% unhappy with --- I'd still recommend him, though!