Chipped tooth

mattheman said:
What you need to do is ask how long do you want to keep your front tooth, if the chip is small then youll be fine, if you start to use butchers then you'll end up with no teeth all.

They care only about the money they dont really care about the client. My advice is go round too another 2 dentists and ask for an opinion dont tell them that you've seen any dentists, that way you'll find out which butcher does care a bit for his clients.

Putting a crown kills the tooth, if i were you ill start to do some research, new teeth technology is around the corner with trials in japan of synthetic enamel, and you want to keep your natural teeth as long as posible. Most uk dentists if not all have no idea about the new tech coming out and still use 150 year old tech to repair if you can call it that, i call it slowing down the loss of teeth, but once you start using them you'll end up losing the tooth.

If there isnt any pain then you should be find, start to use sensi sheild toothpaste or moose thats contains calcium sodium phosilicate.
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Would you shutup slagging dentists off, for a 30something year old you're incredibly immature, tarnishing all with the same brush. Its a small cap, hes not as anal about his teeth as you are.
 
A cap and a crown are one and the same.........10% of crowned teeth will die within 15 years, so there's a potential morbidity for the tooth if it does get crowned. However, if the tooth dies it doesn't mean it has to come out, it will just need a root filling.

If its only a small chip then all you have to do is place a small composite filling in it, no need to crown the tooth at all, that is overtreating the situation.

A crown on the NHS costs £198 and thats it. You could have 10 crowns or 1 crown done, and it would only ever cost you £198 total. (Hence why so many dentists left the NHS).Only problem is wether or not the dentist would do it on the NHS, if its strictly for cosmetics, I doubt they would. Also, if you were to get a private crown rather than NHS, you'd tend to get a nicer result as the materials and craftmanship of the lab's used for each differ.

Mattheman, are you a Dentist? You seem to think you know the ins and outs of UK dentistry.

Ripper - if you want, fire me an email, i'll show you a few examples of what can be done.
 
scouse said:
Mattheman, are you a Dentist? You seem to think you know the ins and outs of UK dentistry.
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He isnt, theres a thread of him moaning because one pulled his tooth out before as they didnt feel it could be saved, but another dentist told him they could save it or something, you'd think somebody had just died over the fuss he made over it. He just likes to tarnish them all with the same brush, saying they are liars etc, even though he only thinks they are liars because one dentist told him that another had lied.. etc.
 
I remember that thread. It is also the one he stated that there was a specific toothpaste in Japan or somewhere like that, which actually repairs cavities......biggest load of rubbish I've heard. If he actually bothered to read into it he'd find that he was very very much mistaken.
 
When placing a crown, the tooth needs to be cut down and shaped to provide space for the crown material. Sometimes taking away this tissue can irritate the nerve in the tooth and cause it to lose vitality. Doens't happen all the time, but its something I warn my patients could happen.
 
I know the rules with medical advice on the forum, but since I am qualified I think this should be ok - if not, please feel free to remove this Dons.

Following a root canal the tooth is weaker - a. because of the tissue needed to be removed to access the nerve, and b. because you no longer have any proprioception in the tooth. Deciding whether a tooth needs to be crowned is really upto the Dentists personal opinion. As a rule of thumb myself though, if a molar/premolar tooth needs a filling that involves more than just the occlusal (top) surface, then I will crown it. Anterior teeth do not require crowning as much as posteriors as they are not placed under such forces during eating. So front teeth only really require crowning when a fair bit of the tooth has been lost, or for aesthetic reasons.
Hope this answers your question.
 
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