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[Alaskan]

My mom hated her implants, she switched to bridges, and loves those.

Getting teeth right must be horrid.

 

[ValerieJ]

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.

That is awful.

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.

So, perhaps I should forgive my dentist for taking an entire year for these implants, complete with antibiotics that made me sick. I really have a good dentist. I have had no problems or infections, but I did have my patience stretched to its limit!!!!

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?

There is something else wrong with your tooth. It shouldn't hurt like that. So either go to this dentist if you trust him, or go to another. I literally, no exaggeration, went to 10 dentists who could not do what I needed on my teeth. They all gave me plans, but I knew they were wrong for me. Most wanted to pull all of my teeth, some wanted to just keep working on them. No one wanted to do the number of implants I needed if they weren't going to do a full mouth implant procedure. Until I found Dr. Johnson. He's my angel. He listened to what I said and we worked out a plan that suited my teeth and my wishes. Yes, $27K is a lot of money. But, once I knew I was going to get what I needed done, money didn't matter any more. I'm very happy with the work he did. So, find a dentist you trust and get it fixed. Even if you have to shop around. It's stressful, but worth it in the long run.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I think if you have to keep going in your right if other teeth are broke or injured
it would be horrible ... Mine was easy went in they put me under pulled the 7 I had left
that was simple in my book

 

[ronott1]

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?

How long ago was the work done? When they prep a tooth for a crown, they have to make the gums recede. This hurts the gums. My guess is that you have an infection at the gum. Rinsing with salt water will help if so

 

[CapricornFarm]

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?

It may need to be ground down some so it is level with your other teeth. Return to dentist, they should do that free.

 

[Alaskan]

How long ago was the work done? When they prep a tooth for a crown, they have to make the gums recede. This hurts the gums. My guess is that you have an infection at the gum. Rinsing with salt water will help if so

The gum is fine, it only hurts when I bite down.

Directly after the dentist put in the good crown (so, this last go around) the gum was a bit sore but it healed up fine.

And I can brush all over, no pain.

It is just if I bite down on the tooth, and it hurts deep inside, as if maybe the entire tooth is being pressed down too hard?? Or, something?

If I clearly knew what was wrong... -sigh-

 

[Alaskan]

This is just the temp crown... date for the permanent crown is on the 18th.

I got this new temporary crown put in January 28, so over a week ago.

Should I call and tell them? And ask to go in early? Or wait until the appointment for the permanent crown?

I just feel like a weeny. Stupid tooth.

And chewing on the left side works fine.

 

[Alaskan]

Thanks everyone for the input.

 

[getaclue]

I'd call, and talk to the dentist about it. He may suggest a root canal, or want to check further regarding infection, and healing. I had to have the root canal done, before they put my crown in.

 

[sourland]

Somewhere during puberty they should pull everyone's teeth and replace them with stainless steel. @Alaskan I'm guessing you have a cracked root. That being said I have a crown/root canal that periodically acts up with big time pain. X rays show nothing.
Good morning all.