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[drumstick diva]

ron, after awhile you learn what side to eat crispy things so you don't break the expensive denistry.

 

[pennyJo1960]

So happy I have my great dentures sorry

 

[bruceha2000]

Don't be sorry, if they are working well for you - GREAT!

 

[ValerieJ]

Honestly, everyone has to decide what will work best for their teeth. I wont tell the whole story of my teeth, but suffice it to say it started with very bad dentistry when I was 4 years old!!! So, after years of fixes being done over and over again, I finally bit the bullet last year. We replaced all the problem areas with implants. It was expensive, approx $27,000, but it's done. I don't have to think about them anymore. No more pain!!! Because of bone loss, dentures were not even an option for me. Bone grafting and implants were my only solution. But, look at me now!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Great that your good with what you have also Val it is all very personal... My half sister has
implants swears by them .... BY the grace of god and huge dental bills my brother 18 months older still has his natural teeth

 

[ronott1]

ron, after awhile you learn what side to eat crispy things so you don't break the expensive denistry.

I have to readjust now. The left side is better with the new crown over there. The right side has the bridge and it is getting old

 

[microchick]

I have a step niece who got a bone infection from an implant. I guess she had a pretty rough time with it.

27,000 dollars? Gulp...

When I was told I had this congenital disease in the roots of my teeth there was only one other person in the state of IL who had been diagnosed with it. I asked the endentologist that I saw what happened to him and he told me that he had agreed to let them do research on his mouth since he was the only one documented to have it. The disease has three stages. If caught early, stage one or even stage two, a root canal can be done and the tooth saved. Anything after that has to be pulled. Mine has to be caught in stage one and that isn't easy to do. When I asked with the outcome of the other patient was the doctor admitted he lost all his teeth due to the fact that it's just so darned expensive to have one root canal after another.

Didn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. My teeth have always been a pain, literally.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Wow micro that tough

 

[drumstick diva]

The woman bus driver we had - needed one implant - it ended up costing her $ 3,000 in advance. Otherwise with payments it would have been much higher. She also got a bad infection and was in a lot of pain.

My teeth used to hurt so much, I wanted to grind them to dust and be rid of them. Turned out I had an abbsess in one tooth but, the pain sure traveled all over.

 

[Alaskan]

Man....

Here I am listening to all if these teeth stories....

I am not sure what to do with my tooth.

Thoughts? Here is the story:


So, I cracked my back right molar eating a sticky hard candy.... so I went in, they said look, you cracked your tooth.... so they started shaving it down for a crown....

But the anesthetic only worked on the back half of the tooth. After a bit I told them that I was done with that, it just hurt way too much, they had to finish up. So the dentist stuck on a temporary crown... but the tooth wasn't ready for it...so a bad job was done.

But... the stress from the pain made me clench up my jaw so hard that the jaw joint locked up on me, and I was only able to eat soup... could barely open my mouth.

After a couple of weeks, and me trying everything to get the jaw to relax a bit...I went to a different dentist in town who said he had more drugs...

And the new dentist took xrays and said I clenched my jaws too much, you could tell from bone wear on the xrays, and he would make me a custom mouth guard so my jaw would come down and clench at a different angle, and hopefully reduce the pain and let the jaw heal. I was barely able to get my jaw open enough for that...

Anyway, the guard helped, and the jaw joint started healing...

So, after a few more weeks, I was finally able to open my mouth wide enough for the dentist to take off the temporary crown, finish the tooth preparation, and put on a new temporary crown.

I can tell that this temporary crown is way better, it is done right, sits right, etc.

But I can NOT chew on it! If I do, it hurts. If I don't bite down there, it is fine.

Luckily the left side of my mouth is fully functional, I just chew there.

So.... why is it hurting when I chew on the crown? Is it just because it is a temporary crown, and the permanent crown will not be painful to chew on?

Or... did I crack more than one tooth with that blasted candy and need a second crown? Probably the molar above it.

Or, is the cracked tooth not just a cracked tooth, but infected or something and I need a root canal?????
Or what?