That answer varies greatly depending on where you live. In the suburb of Phoenix that I practice in my cost for a crown for a patient with no insurance is $950. Hope this helps Joe
In short yes the space can be refilled temporarily but it usually is cost prohibitive. It will require quite a bit of fabrication work that eats up chair time at the office which the dentist will have to charge you for. In my area of Phoenix the extraction generally runs $200 approximately where as the temporary tooth fabrication will run $600-700 just for the hour of chair time it eats up. So long story short yes we can temporarily fabricate just about anything it just comes down to cost to do so. Hope that helps Joe
short answer no. Long answer if the probe scores went from a 5 to a 10 on a root canal tooth it is a relatively good sign the root canal is failing. I am going to take a guess here but I bet there is visible bone loss on the x rays is why they would probe it aggressively. Hope this helps Joe
Pfm crowns have been around for a long time and have a very good track record. As far as being the “strongest” that is not true. We have a few options that are stronger such as a full gold crown or a full porcelain crown made from zirconia. The gray line is where your tooth under the crown and your crown meet or the joint between the 2. Your underlying tooth shade is always darker than the crown. If the tooth has had a root canal or has had a large amalgam (metal) filling for a long time the tooth will be much darker as well. I personally try to keep my restoration margins right at or slightly above the gum line for ease of cleaning. If all of the margins are above the gum line and you have a good fitting restoration you should have a better long term success rate for that restoration. If you do not want to see the margins than you need toplace them below the gum line but that will decrease the lifespan of the restoration. So long story short. If you do not like the esthetics of the restoration you should talk to the dentist that placed it. Hope that helps Joe
what’s left is the root of your tooth. That probably needs to extracted. From there you have 3 basic options. An implant which acts the most like a tooth. A bridge which uses the tooth on each side to hold in a fake tooth (3 crowns fused together is how I try to explain a bridge sometimes) or your last option is a removable appliance. Hope this helps Joe
