Zirconia Crown on Tooth 14 - Wellington, FL
I researched the internet for the best dentist I...
I researched the internet for the best dentist I could find when I learned I needed a crown after a molar with a big filling broke past the gumline. I found a dentist in Wellington Florida, a top rated cosmetic dentist. He has lots and lots of before and after photos, along with lots of impressive credentials and a fancy office. I know someone who has beautiful perfect teeth he made as it turned out.
He went to work immediately on my tooth and after an hour of work he had placed a plastic temporary crown that was an exact duplicate of the tooth he removed, minus the hole. There was no pain except for a few seconds of intense pain when he injected more anesthetic into my gum.
He had scared me a lot when he said he didn't know if he could save the tooth at all since the break in it was above the gum line and he said it might be more than a millimeter above the gum line in which case he would have to pull the tooth. I told him not to and I would get a second opinion, but after silently praying it turned out he didn't have to pull it, and it didn't need a root canal in spite of him saying at first he was 80% sure it did. Whew! He does root canals himself rather than sending patients to an endodontist.
He took about 100 pictures of all my teeth and it turns out I need LOTS of crowns since there are so many huge fillings and they are leaking and have decay under them.
So after two weeks, I go back to get my new zirconia crown which I'm sure will look amazing after seeing the quality of work this dentist does.
I will post again when I get the permanent crown.
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I find out now from another dentist that to get the temporary off, he has to grind down the prepped tooth even smaller, to get it all off.
Has anyone here had a dentist refuse to talk to them about work they are doing on them, either on the phone or in person?
Would you go to a dentist and let him work in your mouth if he refuses to talk to you?
He is obviously hoping I will disappear.
The crown he had made won't fit now. My tooth will have to be ground down smaller to get the temporary off.
I'm a bit confused, is the communication issue going on with the new dentist that you went to, or is this the original office that you were unsure of their advice to pull the tooth?
He said it is highly unorthodox to use permanent cement on a temporary.
Dr Sadati was told by his assistent when he prepped my tooth that he was out of temporary cement so he told his assistant to give him Optibond, a permanent cement. She stopped and stared at him for a second like he was nuts, and I felt alarmed, but had forgotten about that until the endodontist couldn't get the temp off.
I'm so glad to hear you found a dentist that you feel so comfortable with. That is great you were able to keep your natural tooth. I have to say it is great on your part that when the options was presented to pull your tooth you thought to consider a second opinion. Good job! Not everyone thinks of that, and they end up getting treatment they weren't entirely sure about.
Looking forward to hearing how everything else goes for you!
How am I supposed to know this if no one tells me?
I talked to another dentist who told me the temporary could indeed be removed but I don't know why the dentist who put it on couldn't have told me that, or better yet, have told me in advance so I would not have gone through that and could have told the endo to just go through the temporary. Nor did he tell me there was an old filling he was leaving in there, which showed up on the endodontist's xray. It would be nice if he could have told me that too and told me why he was leaving it in. I'm concerned that it might have decay under it, but since the dentist wouldn't talk to me on the phone, I don't know what is going on with the filling. I don't know the reason the dentist won't talk to me on the phone just to answer these questions and I have to try to get answers to them from other dentists.