Dental implants - full mouth restoration

Unfortunately, most of us have to make do with dentures.

I have a metal half top plate and it’s quite comfortable.
I did have a plastic one, but it kept breaking.
Hence the metal one which is unbreakable.

They way they do it has changed, I was told several years ago I couldn't have implants due to lack of bone, but my dentist told me recently that I probably could have them. I have all my back upper teeth missing on one side and simply cannot get used to the false teeth. I can just about talk now with them in but I can't eat or drink and they're the only option as I have no teeth to attach any other kind too.
Unfortunately implants are out of my financial ability now, but if I could afford them I'd jump at it.

I am just waiting for AI to work.out how you can actually grown back your own new teeth. Maybe with the help of genetic engineering?

That would be brilliant
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After a very long and difficult transition to dentures over the past 2 years (full upper, partial lower, only 3 of my own teeth left), I am really struggling with mine, particularly the top, with function, retention and sensory issues (hate the hard things pressing all over my mouth). It cost me £12,500 to get to where I am now. I can still only eat a very limited diet of soft food, can't taste food very well and am very down over the difficulties I now have.
My diet is not very good now because anything crunchy, chewy, hard - fruit, veg, meat is pretty much off limits now unless cooked or mashed into oblivion!

I saw the dentist last week, who said there isn't anything further can be done to help with the upper denture retention (mix of very flat upper palate and dry mouth means even with adhesive it comes adrift at intervals during the day.
The dentist said implants would help and my existing denture could be adapted to become snap-on dentures, with 4 implants at a cost of £2,500 per implant.... Told I'd probably be in some discomfort for around 8 weeks while the implants heal.
I too just don't know what to do. That's another 10 grand for the posts, plus whatever consultation, scan and fitting fees which are bound to be on top, even if I can raise the finance. But, I am so not enjoying life, particularly eating and socialising where food is involved. I just don't know what to do.

Hope you are prepared to pay mega bucks!

I had implants in 2010 and have regretted it ever since. They kept getting infected and eventually fell out in 2021. How I could do with the money now!

I had one implant that cost ( always my analogy) the price of a small second hand car. I am still sorry that I couldn’t afford two. I needed one on either side of my lower jaw so it meant settling one first. I couldn’t justify the cost again sadly.

Thanks for all your replies and feedback.
Do appreciate it.

Thanks again.
As I said further up thread, dentist said my gums and the tablets that I take would not make me a good candidate for this procedure.
Good luck to anyone with any dental issues.

I wouldn't' listen to a lot of what people are saying, even if you have low bone and are older there are still treatment options out there.

My husband is 85 years old and has been diagnosed with osteoperosis yet he was still able to get treatment with New life teeth in manchester

It was expensive but life is worth living and feeling confident about he had lost most his teeth and wearing dentures for a long time.

J52

I am also in the category of low bone density. Not urgent yet, but I have had a long discussion with my dentist. Apart from the cost, which would be thousands for a full mouth restoration, would anyone post 70 want to spend possibly several years undergoing such work for a full mouth restoration.
Each tooth removal has to have time to heal, then the grafts also have to heal individually. I don’t think it can all be done at once.
Comprehensive research on what it will mean for you, in reality, is the best way forward.

I know someone distant family paid £58 grand for full mouth of implants in their 70s. At the time they were coughing up their lungs.
Now eights later, they have a chronic lung condition.
No I certainly wouldn’t be paying all that, especially if I had a chronic illness.

I went to a dentist who teaches others how to do implants.
I am happy with mine but I do only have 2.
One is maybe 18 months old and the other about 7 or 8 I think.

I had a "graft" with the second, and it was a trickier tooth anyway. I had probably spent nearly the cost of the implant trying to fix it over the years!!.

My "bite" is apparently very good and by replacing this tooth it still is.

I would do it again if I needed it and had enough money. Really it's a cost thing. Mine was paid over several visits (at ⅓ or ¼ per visit) - but I think they also do an "installment" plan.

Advice would be to go somewhere where implant dentistry is a speciality and choose someone who has been doing it for a reasonable length of time. I travelled almost an hour back to my person.
You generally don't want to pay a lot to discover you are one of their first patients.