From UK, Considering All-On-4 in Turkey

So on Tuesday I finally got around to getting a OPG panoramic X-ray. I immediately sent it to the clinic I'm considering and they were pretty quick to tell me their oral surgeon would look at it and get back to me... I'm hoping they do so this week as I'm pretty impatient and just want to know what can be done.

I must admit I'd been in two minds about having it done. Is it a bit too drastic? And then I saw my x-ray and that day I tried to eat some pretty soft meat and immediately my teeth hurt and eating was not pleasurable. I've been on a soft food/puree diet because of my gastric sleeve but I had forgotten how miserable eating with my teeth are...

And then I look at my X-ray and realise that I've only got 23 teeth, and barely a handful are not filled. Some teeth look more filling that tooth now, and I'm pretty sure several have needed to be pulled for a few years now.

My X-ray kind of convinced me I need to do something with my teeth. They're ugly, painful, eating is becoming impossible and miserable, they always need something done to them and have already cost me thousands of pounds in trying to fix them. They need to go.

Hopefully I'll hear back from the clinic very soon with the oral surgeons thoughts on whether I am a suitable candidate for All on 4/6.

So I've asked the clinic what will happen if I get there and the dentist decides my teeth are "still good" and won't do the All on 4. They said we could switch to veneers or crowns but the only way they'll know if I'm a suitable candidate for All on 4 before I get there and have a consultation is if I get an OPG or Panoramic X-Ray done and send it over to them.

So I've found a dentist I can get this done at who will give me a digital copy that I can email over to them and I'm going to book to get that done in the next week or so.

For the moment though I've taken some photo's of my teeth as best I can... I'm rubbish at this though so forgive the poor photo quality.... Although they don't look too bad, most of them are filled (white fillings), discoloured, broken, need fillings or extraction and wonky. I can't live with them as they are anymore, they make me miserable and I try not to smile as a result of them.

So I've made the decision to go for All-on-4s at Premium Dental Turkey. So the big cash saving begins now! They've quoted me an all in price for upper and lower jaw of £8471 and I can't beat that price anywhere I've looked for the quality.

The current aim is to book a date for summer 2020... But I'm hoping to do it a little bit earlier than that, maybe around May time. I won't know a date for sure until I've got next years class timetables as I'll have to go when I'm not studying. I'll post some photo's of my teeth in the next little while. :)

I am excited to think that by this time next year I've have lovely new teeth and will be able to smile without shame, and eat without pain.