Dr. Rory Boyd:

In general, people in that situation present to their general practitioner and declare that they have had, say, 20 crowns placed abroad but now have pain and symptoms. That is a very complex case to rehabilitate. The patient is usually referred on to a person with expertise and skills to rehabilitate that mouth. Unfortunately, such treatment comes with a specialist-style cost, which is what the patient was trying to avoid in the first place. It then lies in the hands of the private practitioners who are competent to rehabilitate that to take responsibility for that work, but the trail must end somewhere. Practitioners such as ourselves do treat such cases but many practitioners will not do so because they do not know the materials and techniques involved or what lies beneath. Once you get involved in a case like that, it is now yours. Only a few practitioners in this country will take on the reconstruction of these lengthy and very costly cases, and it will be a very long journey for the patient before he or she gets back to health.