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Medical Forum / General / Dentistry / October 2004New crown TOO short!!!
I just got new crown on to first left upper molar. The crown is too short it is not making contact with teeth on lower jaw. Is that a problem, other than other teeth wearing down more? Like bone loss on short tooth? Thank You. That depends on a couple of things. How much too short? Were they planning on doing some work on the tooth/teeth it is supposed to touch? You can feel the difference of a couple of a thousands of an inch. If it shy by that much, the tooth will soon move into position with out a problem. Sure beats being a little high and having it hurt like the dickens.  SignatureRoy DotSeaEh is .ca |I just got new crown on to first left upper molar. The crown is too short it | is not making contact with teeth on lower jaw. Is that a problem, other | than other teeth wearing down more? Like bone loss on short tooth? Thank | You. >That depends on a couple of things. How much too short? Were they planning >on doing some work on the tooth/teeth it is supposed to touch? > >You can feel the difference of a couple of a thousands of an inch. If it shy >by that much, the tooth will soon move into position with out a problem. >Sure beats being a little high and having it hurt like the dickens. Try the slider test. You cut a strip of paper, open wide ,,,, I mean o-pen w-i-i-i-i-i-de, insert the strip, chomp down and try to pull it out. If it pull out too easily, the contact is poor. Next, repeat the slider strip with a carrot.Not a carrot strip. An entire carrot. If you can extract the carrot without opening your teeth, it will still come out but now shaven of course, then you need to consider getting employment at one of theose natural foods juice bars. It is tough to shave 'dem carrots. Joel Thank you all. I tried to slide single piece of paper and it goes through easy, but not three slides. How easy to replace the crown? Do they have to drill the old one off? Can a porcelain fused-to-metal crowns that has porcelain worn off be fixed by adding resin to the metal part of the crown? Thanks again. > >That depends on a couple of things. How much too short? Were they planning > >on doing some work on the tooth/teeth it is supposed to touch? [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Joel >Thank you all. >I tried to slide single piece of paper and it goes through easy, but not >three slides. Ummm, the tooth might erupt and correct itself, but the dentist should become aware of the problem ...... (TRANSLATION: Be sure to tell him). > How easy to replace the crown? Do they have to drill the old >one off? I tap them off with a "reverse crown-puller" > Can a porcelain fused-to-metal crowns that has porcelain worn off >be fixed by adding resin to the metal part of the crown? NOPE. It will not stick. >Thanks again. > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> >> Joel Its possible to fix it properly.Ask your dentist for It. If this crown is out of occlusion(as you claim) then dentist ought to fix it regards >I just got new crown on to first left upper molar. The crown is too short >it > is not making contact with teeth on lower jaw. Is that a problem, other > than other teeth wearing down more? Like bone loss on short tooth? Thank > You. >I just got new crown on to first left upper molar. The crown is too short it >is not making contact with teeth on lower jaw. If I were the dentist, I would remake it pronto. Joel PS- How do your other teeth meet? > Is that a problem, other >than other teeth wearing down more? Like bone loss on short tooth? Thank >You. Nah, and it might erupt, but it should be right from the get-go! |
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