I live in Cambodia and had my two top front teeth crowned around a year ago here. I am not sure if they are pure porcelain or fused with metal. Since then my gums have started to develop black areas. I visited a different dentist for a check up and he said that black areas are dead tissue resulting from the removal of nerves during the crowning. This doesn't sound right to me at all. Are my gums dead/dying? Can nerve removal result in the death of gum tissue? What can I do?
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This color is due to the light going into the tooth with very little reflection. It is possible to ues an opaque white filling but it is very rarely a cosmetic problem.mmA new crown can be done in the future but is rarely worth the expense.
Without a picture it is difficult to determine the answer to your question without a picture. It is very possible to mask out the qrey caused by having a root canal. Also, a good dentist and lab should be able to accomplish this with only working on one tooth. The thing to know is that the tooth...
It would be acceptable to place a new temporary on the tooth at this point. However, the final restoration, as you have been told, would need to wait until all healing has occurred, to make sure that the gum tissue does not change.
