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This is ridiculous. Any suggestions for a "sharp" top chipped tooth?
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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 529667" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>DDD - You might call dentist and see if he can just fill/build up the broken part of the tooth. I had a root canal done and never went back to have the permanent filling put in afterward (don't ask). Anyway, here we are 4 years later and the tooth broke, like the entire inside part of it. Left me with a very sharp piece of tooth (Dracula would have been jealous) on the inside part of mouth (cosmetically from outside no difference). Dragged my sorry self back to dentist, who basically built me a new tooth. Not meant to last forever but, since I assumed he was going to have to pull it, a decent result. He just put a metal piece around the tooth, like a mold (actually, more like when they're pouring concrete, LOL, and they put the whatever-they're-called in to hold the design - make sense?), then used some kind of plastic (?) filling material and just filled in the whole missing piece. I thought the thing would collapse too, especially with- the root canal, but it's built up very nicely and feels really stable. Eventually I'm going to have to get it crowned, but dental work is not on my list of fun things to do anytime in the near future, and this is holding me just fine for now, plus it got rid of the exposed knife-like edge of the broken tooth.</p><p></p><p>Especially with potential surgery looming, dentist should be able to fix this enough so you don't have wounds on your tongue! </p><p></p><p>In the meantime, for the (mumbled #) months I procrastinated calling dentist to get this fixed, I actually did use chewing gum to cover the broken part and I chewed *very* carefully.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 529667, member: 8"] DDD - You might call dentist and see if he can just fill/build up the broken part of the tooth. I had a root canal done and never went back to have the permanent filling put in afterward (don't ask). Anyway, here we are 4 years later and the tooth broke, like the entire inside part of it. Left me with a very sharp piece of tooth (Dracula would have been jealous) on the inside part of mouth (cosmetically from outside no difference). Dragged my sorry self back to dentist, who basically built me a new tooth. Not meant to last forever but, since I assumed he was going to have to pull it, a decent result. He just put a metal piece around the tooth, like a mold (actually, more like when they're pouring concrete, LOL, and they put the whatever-they're-called in to hold the design - make sense?), then used some kind of plastic (?) filling material and just filled in the whole missing piece. I thought the thing would collapse too, especially with- the root canal, but it's built up very nicely and feels really stable. Eventually I'm going to have to get it crowned, but dental work is not on my list of fun things to do anytime in the near future, and this is holding me just fine for now, plus it got rid of the exposed knife-like edge of the broken tooth. Especially with potential surgery looming, dentist should be able to fix this enough so you don't have wounds on your tongue! In the meantime, for the (mumbled #) months I procrastinated calling dentist to get this fixed, I actually did use chewing gum to cover the broken part and I chewed *very* carefully. [/QUOTE]
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