Dental Trifecta

[Copper]

Crown, Root Canal, Implant - all in 1 sitting and all in the same tooth!

Yesterday

Go to the dentist to replace the temporary crown with the permanent crown.

The assistant tries to remove the temporary - snaps it off at the gum line, she disappears without explanation, I was pretty sure what happened.

The dentist says there are 2 options:

1. Root canal, place a post, buildup, put on a crown $900

2. Remove tooth, insert bone graft, 6 months later insert screw, 6 months later place crown $4,000 (the more permanent solution)

I love root canals - let's try that!
After a long while drilling, scraping and a couple extended leaves from the room, the dentist returns and says they don't have all the tools needed because she hit calcification in the root, how about a referral to a specialist.

I'm not leaving with a partial root canal.

Let's do the Implant!

She says 20 minutes for the extraction, a couple minutes for the bone graft.

After >20 minutes of pulling, twisting, scraping, snaping and slamming, she calls in the second string extraction team.

A few minutes later the extraction happens and she inserts the bone graft

A couple stiches and it is all tied up nice and neat

The dental trifecta, right here in my mouth.

ps - The bone graft takes 6 months to cure, then the screw is inserted and 6 months later the crown
Yes, I will have a hole where the tooth was, for 12 months, shocking!

[jon-nyc]

Ugh. Im sorry to hear this.

My one implant is fundamentally due to a dentist’s error.

[Horace]

That sounds like a bad day. Glad you got through it. They should give you a discount at least.

[Mik]

Awful.

[Jolly]

If I have to have a tooth pulled, it's oral surgeon time.

[taiwan_girl]

Ouch. @Copper Hope you are not too uncomfortable

[bachophile]

Look at the bright side, if you have your demise in some horrible conflagration, you will be easily identifiable as per your dental records and give comfort and solace to your loved ones.

[Jolly]

That may be the most Jewish thing I've read in quite some time.

[George K]

In 2006, I lost a crown - second molar on the bottom-right. Tooth broke off. Had it extracted. In fact, I posted about it on TNCR (Zetaboards version). Once extracted, it was going to be another $2000 or so for implant, etc.

Thought, "I'm 56 years old. Do I REALLY need that tooth? Nah." I never had anything more done to it, and I didn't starve.

[George K]

@bachophile said in Dental Trifecta:

Look at the bright side, if you have your demise in some horrible conflagration, you will be easily identifiable as per your dental records and give comfort and solace to your loved ones.

Guy that was our dentist for a while worked at the dental school at the U.

He did forensic dentistry, and was involved in the plane crash at O'Hare back in 1979.

Steve Smith:

https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9781466500570_A24034196/preview-9781466500570_A24034196.pdf

[89th]

Wow @Copper what a day. Hope you had good numbing during all of that extraction twisting. I've been there and just the idea (and the pressure) is not fun.

Please tell me you used the old dad joke, of "Hey Doc, will I be able to play golf well after this?"

[George K]

My favorite thing to say at the dentist: "OK Doc, let's just get this straight. We're not gonna hurt each other, right?"