Teeth (Crowns)

[jennyjoan]

No not me again but a friend has emailed me there to say she had been getting treatment on a certain tooth and the treatment (root canal) finished last week. However after treatment dentist said I will take an x-ray and after the x-ray told her that tooth will need a crown but the NHS only do metal crowns. Now I have been getting dental work all my life but I never heard of a metal crown. Friend of course has said she will pay for white crown.

Is this correct.

[murraymints]

not in Scotland ! I have 2 both white on NHS

[Buenchico]

Quote:
"If you get an NHS crown on your back tooth, you may only be offered a silver-coloured material. You'll usually only get a white crown on the NHS for more visible front teeth. Consider private treatment if you want a white crown for aesthetic reasons".

Source:
https://www.dentaly.org/en/dental-crown-information/

[murraymints]

ahhh..both of mine are to the front ^^^^

[jennyjoan]

thanks Chris and Minty - I'll email her

[webbo3]

I've got gold on the NHS, white are more expensive.

[jno]

I've got the crowned teeth of Europe in my head but nobody ever told me I had to have metal ones, and I just paid the NHS rates. But maybe the rules have changed? What county's your friend in, jj?

[jno]

that should say country, of course

[jennyjoan]

belfast jno

[Redhelen72]

It’s the same in Belfast it’s metal unless the crown is up the front

[jennyjoan]

told her last night and of course she is paying for white. If I was young all over again and had the nerve LOL - I would change silver filling to white. Looking back at my life I just know that for the fillings in my teeth I never cried to my mother about tooth pain - maybe once - but I think dentists of yesteryear - had to put unnecessary fillings in to teeth or they wouldn't have got paid. Every one of my family have fillings at the back - they are dead now but they used to say they never complained about tooth pain. Dentists were butchers then.

[jno]

they sure were, jj, I didn't go to a dentist for more than 20 years I hated it so much. (Maybe this is connected to why I have so many implants and crowns now??) But they're a lot better now.

[rowanwitch]

I have five NHS porcelain crowns in the front of my mouth. They prefer to do metal at the back as they are stronger and you don't notice them anyway