All About Dental

[verykiasu2010]

Otah:

verykiasu2010:

[quote=\"Otah\"]For secondary school student who might need to align his teeth, which route do I take, see school dentist first (what if no school dentist? do I bring him to polyclinic?) or go direct to outside private dentist?

SDC is costly and long Q. Pay high price to be guinea pigs and they cancel appointment in short notice !!!!

Go straight to private one

A Line at Adelphi is reasonable and is popular with lots of sec school students but takes a while to get an initial time slot. After that the time slots could be managed for subsequent appointments

Thanks verykiasu2010! Any dentist there you can recommend?[/quote]Can't remember the name of the orthodontist, but seemed only one with a few assistants

He is very pragmatic in a sense that he would recommend what is critical but not for the full package that will maximise your cost -- for example, for my kid he recommended to do braces only for the lower jaw, which means half the cost, but SDC does not care - just do full set and need to extract 4 teeth before the braces for both upper and lower jaws could be done

For A Line, they don't do extraction but will recommend the relevant dentist or dentist of your choice to do the extraction if needed. Please note some extractions qualify for medisave payment (eg wisdom tooth extraction) so that your cash payments are minimised

[Verysuperkiasu]

Is there a dental clinic that allows patients to pay by instalment for implants? It’s just too costly.


How much can I claim from cpf?

In the west - any good recommendation?

[smurfymum]

Is poly clinic dental ok? Thinking of that as lower in price

[PHMummy]

looking for children friendly dentist in around Toh Yi.


have the below options - K&K Dental Surgery
/ Ascent Dental Surgeons / Q&M Dental Surgery (Bt. Timah)

anyone went to any of the above and any comments. :please:

juz need normal cleaning & polishing services...

[jeanieg]

My 7 year old girl has dropped her top 2 front teeth about 6 months ago and the new adult teeth has yet to appear! Is this normal?

[verykiasu2010]

jeanieg:

My 7 year old girl has dropped her top 2 front teeth about 6 months ago and the new adult teeth has yet to appear! Is this normal?

it is normal to look cute

such cute-ness will never repeat itself

get more photo shots for keep sake ........

[MMM]

jeanieg:

My 7 year old girl has dropped her top 2 front teeth about 6 months ago and the new adult teeth has yet to appear! Is this normal?

So far, my kids' teeth came loose because the permanent set is pushing it out. In fact for ds2, the moment his 2 front teeth dropped, we saw the 2 permanent set coming out together...

So did your child's teeth dropped automatically or????

I had alot of teeth problem when I was young. One of my front teeth never drop and then finally at around upper primary, my mum brought me to the dentist and they found that there is a bone between milk and permanent set. So had to go through an ops to remove the bone and then wait for permanent set to come down. It took awhile.

Then there was another milk teeth that didn't drop but the one next to it had 2 permanent set!!!! So I had my milk teeth till 23 yrs old when my dh (bf then) encouraged me to see a orthodontist and finally got my braces at that age (just before getting married). Fortunately I only had to wear it for 9 months as it was just the front part that was creating problem.

My dd1 seems to have alittle of my genes. She had prenatal teeth for the lower 2 (usually the 1st 2 teeth to sprout). Starting having swollen gums when she was few days old..... Dentist proposed that we extract it and we did. So she didn't have her 2 lower teeth (so cute for bb) until she was 7 years old and it's permanent set.

[jeanieg]

When her tooth was wobbly she complained that it was abit uncomfortable to eat so we extracted it. Both teeth dod not drop out on their own. Am just wondering is it normal for the permanent set to take so long to appear. Should I wait for a couple more months or go to the dentist to get it checked. Her bottom ones have dropped and grown new set already.

[Verysuperkiasu]

Should I go for an implant that will be done by a post graduate dentist at NUH? The cost of implant for a tooth is only $2K (for post graduate) compared to a specialist $5K? But a little worried - don’t know whether it is safe?

[verykiasu2010]

Verysuperkiasu:

Should I go for an implant that will be done by a post graduate dentist at NUH? The cost of implant for a tooth is only $2K (for post graduate) compared to a specialist $5K? But a little worried - don't know whether it is safe?

has the post grad dentist any real work experience before ?