I fear that today's dentists, well many of them, brush you off if they think there's not much money in it to correct a problem.
Last Christmas I got a crown. I went home and ate a bag of very sticky candy. I wasn't warned not to do it. And this dentist is 70.
Every week since then this tooth has felt "high" like I pulled it out some with the candy. It is a heavy feeling in the tooth that can wake me up. It graduated to sensitivity with chewing first thing in the mornings some mornings. I finally went back to this guy and he did the carbon paper thing first and said it was fine. Then he actually tried to pull the crown off !!! I said, "Don't do that !"
and he stopped. No Charge. But No Help either. He didn't suggest a thing to me. He doesn't care; he thinks I'm crazy. And he never agreed he SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME NOT TO EAT CANDY.

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Best Wishes to All,
Susan Gene

I would be getting a new dentist.

Cattys

I agree. Please find a new dentist.

You know what, don't you find that your "bite" is different when your reclined in a chair versus sitting up or stading in an upright position???? Because I think I know what you mean.

When they do that paper test you're lying back and your jaw kinda naturally sets back.

No offense, but go and find someone younger - there have been a lot of advances in dentistry and I have noticed (my in-laws dentist is one) that these older guys haven't kept up with the times. Goodluck!

Interesting. My mother told me once that the new dentists are informed of new techniques but the older dentists are not only more ethical but have more experience.
This problem must be one he has delt with numerous times over his career. A crown that isn't working out.
He and another dentist both told me that I may need a root canal since this tooth has been worked on. Excessively. I had one other RC by the endo; he is fabulous. Thanks.

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Best Wishes to All,
Susan Gene

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[This message has been edited by Well-come (edited 08-07-2003).]

NEW DENTIST

it sounds like the crown either wasn't seated far down enough when the cement was set or it was a poorly fitting crown (eg-it may have air blows on the fitting surface etc). Where the crown meets the gum, can you see part of your natural tooth?

i agree, a new dentist would be a good idea. i'm a trainee dentist myself and find that the 70 year old dentists i work with are mostly very set in their ways and reluctant to learn new techniques but a crown is hardly a new technique! switch, i say!