A big chunk of my tooth broke off

[Black Diamond Bay]

Originally Posted by DrumNFeather

I actually had a situation similar to yours...but you have just saved yourself a few months/years of misery and pain.

I chipped a molar a while back and when I got around to getting it fixed, my dentist put a crown on it (not cheap mind you) and said I'd be good to go. About a year later, I returned to inform my dentist that my back molar had been causing me severe pain and it was ultra sensitive. She sent me in for a root canal on the back tooth.

The endontist I saw told me that the back tooth was fine and that it was my crowned tooth that was the problem...that the crowned molar, not the far back molar needed the root canal.

I was pretty nervous at first, but after a few days of soreness and sensitive chewing, everything was back to normal.

Good luck!

By a few days do you mean a week? Three days? What about the temporary crown? Did it still hurt while you had the temporary crown? How bad did it hurt? Like will I be able to eat food with the temporary crown?

[DrumNFeather]

Originally Posted by Black Diamond Bay

By a few days do you mean a week? Three days? What about the temporary crown? Did it still hurt while you had the temporary crown? How bad did it hurt? Like will I be able to eat food with the temporary crown?

You should be fine to eat withint 2-3 days depending on your comfort level. It just takes some getting used to, I think.

You can eat with a temporary crown, it won't be a problem.

[creekster]

Just don't eat sticky things like caramel with a temporary corwn. It also tends to be temperature sensitive, but otherwise is fine.

I have a gold crown and have had it for years. It is fine, but I much prefer the look of the porcelain. Recovery time (menaing loss of soreness and sensitivty) will vary depending upon the tooth and your tolerances.

[Black Diamond Bay]

Originally Posted by creekster

Just don't eat sticky things like caramel with a temporary corwn. It also tends to be temperature sensitive, but otherwise is fine.

I have a gold crown and have had it for years. It is fine, but I much prefer the look of the porcelain. Recovery time (menaing loss of soreness and sensitivty) will vary depending upon the tooth and your tolerances.

Well the novacaine is starting to wear off now, and if it gets no worse than this I can't imagine that this is going to be anything I can't stick out sans the painkillers. He gave me codeine, but I my friend says it makes you feel like your swimming in glue. Although she's recommending I take it so that I'll know what it feels like to smoke a joint.

[Requiem]

Originally Posted by Goatnapper'96

Unless she is a woman, or a Ute.

Talk about an intolerable situation...is there anything worse?

[creekster]

Originally Posted by Black Diamond Bay

My dad is a dental lab technician, he's going to make the crown for me. I was instructed that under no circumstances should I allow my dentist to do a crown like you just described above. My dad said those crowns are just junk because they're too soft, and don't hold up very well, especially for a back molar and people are always getting those replaced when they break. He says he can make me one that will last 20+ years.

I'm mostly concerned how long it will take them to grind my tooth down to a little stump. Does it take a couple of hours, or minutes, what? Sounds miserable.

He may be right, but let me tell you I love mine. In addition to the time saved, I have never had to return to have adjustments made in the ones that were made on the spot, but I have to other ones. (I have about 6 now.) Moreover, 20 years from now I'll probabyl be dead, so what the heck.

Drilling time depends on where in the mouth and how hard it is, but probabyl ranges from 10-20 minutes. The difficult part is you can feel all the pieces of tooth or prior filling (most of mine are from prior fillings) flying around your mouth. If you have had deep fillings, and you proabbyl have if you had one collapse needing a crown, you'll probabyl be ok with the drilling aprt, as it's not much worse.