Would zirconia crown fill my gap between the teeth? (photo)

Teeth naturally move due to position, bite and if a patient clenches or grinds. You may want to have your dental provider take X-rays to confirm the crowns are seated completed and that there is no gap between the crown and the tooth. Also, your dental provider can confirm that there is no...

When working in the back of the mouth, dentists usually numb you up by doing a lower jaw block. In doing so,  your lower jaw nerve (mandibular branch of your Cranial Nerve 5, not Facial nerve which is Cranial Nerve 7) may be disturbed or injured. If that nerve was injured during...

I don’t think he exposed a nerve preparing the tooth. When a nerve is exposed, you tend to feel it immediately, even when you‘re numb. A certain percentage of teeth that have crowns will eventually need root canal therapy. This may be due to the pulp being traumatized by crown preparation or the...

Hmm, I imagine you are quite frustrated after having spent all that time and money. You have to ask this of the dentist who placed it. The edge can be ground down; however, depending upon the type of crown, such a change might affect either the color, strength or both.

At this point, from the symptoms that you are describing, the tooth has become sensitive and indicates the likelihood for a root canal. More than likely, the decay had worked its way under the filling and has reached the nerve that runs inside the tooth. This would explain the sensitivity....

If your dental provider has found that you have a vertical fracture, then most likely the tooth needs to be extracted and the site grafted for future dental implant placement.