Try to get a prescription of Valium or Ativan to reduce the stress of
crohns.    It might ease your dental symptoms.   Take some vitamins,
especially B comples vitamins.    Difficult situation.
Write to me email  at      Advocate147@aol.com    and will write to you the
cause of crohns which may help.     I doubt dentists know much about crohns.
Usually they only know what they see, they do not seem to attribute it to
crohns.     It is a manmade illness and a puzzling one,     and you can try
the      alt.support.crohns-colitis        newsgroup.    Maybe some one
there lives in Los Angeles.    Perhaps knowing the cause of crohns will
help.
Gail Michael
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Since you do not seem to be getting an answer,  We can assume crohns and its
effect on teeth is a completely unknown factor to most dentists.     Not
surprising.      Most physicians are also grasping around for answers to the
problem.      Because the illness is not of medical origin. but  treatment
requires the treatment of physicians, dentists, opthamalogists, surgeons, we
have to hope they know SOMETHING, while  the Crohns and Colitis Foundation
of America (CCFA) insists they are extremely diligent in pursuing research
on the cause.of Crohns.
They will still be insisting the cause  has to be scientific 500 years from
now, and we will be lucky  if  they know something by then.      The cause
is manmade.     Send an email to me    (Advocate147@aol.com)    and I will
write what the cause is and maybe you can help yourself a bit.     Actually,
the dentists have no way of knowing dental problems can be caused by crohns.
It is not a familiar, mainstream malady.
Gail Michael

I would write the email to you without a request, but your screen name is a
challenge to copy.
Gail

You can try asking your local chapter of the CCFA.  You can locate this info
at www.ccfa.org. Also, you can ask you GI for a referral to one but I have
found that the only problems I have had is if I have been on any meds that
can cause excess bleeding, esp. with the pred.  UM MOM Susan