Freaking Crown..

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Will Leavitt

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Grrrrrr couple of years ago when I used to umpire college baseball I had a molar shattered by a foul ball coming straight back and catching me in the mask, the dentist repaired it best he could but said I'd need work later on. Last year had a root canal on same tooth and a crown put in. Couple of week ago the crown came out but I've been too busy to get it fixed, today eating a brownie a freaking walnut piece went in and shattered the molar to bits. :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
Will Leavitt said:
Grrrrrr couple of years ago when I used to umpire college baseball I had a molar shattered by a foul ball coming straight back and catching me in the mask, the dentist repaired it best he could but said I'd need work later on. Last year had a root canal on same tooth and a crown put in. Couple of week ago the crown came out but I've been too busy to get it fixed, today eating a brownie a freaking walnut piece went in and shattered the molar to bits. :mad: :mad: :mad:
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Not good at all......:(
Good luck on deciding what to do and getting it done...... :thumbup:
 
If you don't have a vertical fracture of the roots, could still be possible to place a gold or titanium post and then build up a core to put the crown on. If the tooth fractured through the furcation it might be possible to do a procedure known as bicuspidization and make two pre molars out of the one molar. Your third option would be to remove the tooth and then replace it with a dental implant or a fixed bridge. Best advice--find a dentist who likes really nice knives! Good Luck Kev
 
My only crown was on a shattered tooth,like your. I paid for it by supplying the dentists entire Christmas gift list (He was a big time fisherman,with lots of fishin' buddies).
It is quite likely that the crown (or a new one) can be reset.
Stacy
 
Not much tooth left, I'm guessing about 1/3 that lays next to the other molar (it was the last molar that broke.)

It's kinda funny about breaking it in the ball game. After getting hit I picked my mask off the ground :D I was spitting chunks of tooth out, the catcher looks at me and asks what's that. My tooth, shut up and don't let it happen again. He just grins. Next game of the double header my partner took a shot that went through the vision box (this was a plastic mask in vogue amongst college umpires :eek: ) he pulls the mask forward and the ball falls out. He looks at me as I run up and says "how do I look" I'm just laughing, the same catcher says "Joey, you look like @#$#, but that's an improvement." We just laughed.
 
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