[OT] Dental crowns

[Andrew Gabriel]

Didn't know they had a website until I just looked them up to get the exact address. Tell them I recommended them to you!

[Andrew Gabriel]

Had a work colleague many years ago who was extremely squeamish; if the office conversation even momentarily mentioned blood or injuries, you would notice he'd suddenly vanished from the room.

Anyway, he got to the point where he absolutely had to get some dentistry work done. He reappeared later in the day, rather quiet. Apparently some sort of fight broke out when the dentist attempted to use the local anesthetic syringe, resulting in the dentist stabbing himself in the back of the hand with the needle. After that, he refused to treat the guy.

[Nightjar]

Probably blacksmith's tongs. Both blacksmiths and barbers would pull teeth, but the blacksmith usually charged less.

[Murmansk]

I once asked my dentist what kind of glue he was using to glue my crown on and he said it was carboxylate - means nothing to me but might mean something to someone here!

[tony sayer]

In article , harryagain scribeth thus

Harry you really are a cheerful bugger aren't you;!....

[PeterC]

Try a dash of SBR.

[Chris J Dixon]

Many years ago I worried my colleagues, at the end of our lunch break, when they just saw me slump forward on my desk, apparently dead to the world.

What had actually happened was that I was reading a Gerald Durrell book and just got to a point where he wrote fairly graphically (which I won't) about dealing with a nose bleed. Having a low threshold for this sort of thing the room began to swim....

I was taken off for a compulsory sweet tea and a lie down.

Chris

[Nightjar]

I once had to get a chair for a visiting company rep. who felt faint when he asked what we did in the factory and I replied that we made surgical needles.

[Huge]

I used to teach people scuba diving (for BSAC) and there was one in every class who reacted as above to the graphic descriptions of some of the more, er, biological effects of barotrauma (masks full of blood & so on).

Still, gave us a chance to demonstrate the recovery position.

[RobertL]

yes, that was the approved procedure in those days. They would drill holes in a perfectly good tooth in order o get access to the decay in the tooth next door.

You didn't mention gold as a possible crown material. I've heard that it is better than ceramic because it can be worked and also it wears at the same rate as teeth. Not sure whether is is so.

I've got one ceramic and one gold crown. Both have been i there for 25+ years.

Robert

[RobertL]

But superglue is not especially strong is it (just fast setting)? I would have thought some sort of epoxy would be better.

Robert

[RobertL]

... about the same chance as rolling 7 dice and having them all come up 6.

[Tim Watts]

One prescription, 10 x 2mg valium with instructions to take 3 (and not drive obviously).

[Andrew Gabriel]

Gold used to be recommended for cap-type crowns on rear teeth, where there are high forces from the jaw muscles which could break other types of crowns or fixings which were used 20 or more years ago.

That recommendation doesn't seem to be as strong nowadays, possibly because other types of crown have got better.

Gold was also better in people who tend to get reactions to some other artificial materials in their bodies, but again, I haven't heard of that so much recently, possibly because other modern materials have improved in this respect.

Gold crowns are normally an alloy of gold, silver, and copper, and sometimes other metals too. Gold by itself doesn't have ideal properties. (National Health gold crowns tended to have a rather higher proportion of copper.)

[Tim Watts]

Well 6mg valium did the job. I am not off my face but not anxious either. Wish I'd thought of this a long time ago...

Happy - let him do a good prep job and he's got an excellent impression

- so zirconium it is in 3 weeks when it comes back from the lab.

But by god - awkward tooth - 3 injections and I could still feel a couple of bits of drilling. I remember my root canal years ago took about 4 jabs.

I am so happy I am going next week to get everything else xrayed and any old dodgy fillings replaced - I feel one or two are a bit past it.

I did ask about the on site crown making machines - apparently they cost around £85,000. He'd love one, but unless you are a practise with a few dentists, it's impossible to make it cost effective.

[Tim Streater]

Good for you. Leaving teeth when there is a known problem just stores up worse for later.

My Dad had all his teeth pulled on the NHS prolly in the mid-50s. Those were the days when everyone expected to need false choppers by the time they were 40. The anaesthesia was a screw-up. Not enough so he didn't feel each tooth being pulled, but just enough so he couldn't raise an arm or otherwise communicate about it.

[Tim Watts]

Dentistry - you look back 40 years and realise how mediaeval it was such a short time ago.

My parents both had partial choppers when 40. Into the steradent each night.

I noticed some people getting crowns or implants (which are insanely expensive) are going abroad - in India, you can get a crown done for £150 apparently. And no, not going...

[Andy Burns]

I went to Budapest, I think it's less worthwhile now.

There's another bridge with crowns between the implants and the right molar, that required an extra visit for the implants to grow into the bone graft ...

[Tim Watts]

And with 8mg today, he took a full set of X rays - he did not want to do the rear 4 molars but I told him to - those 2 were uncomfortable but managed. Rest were a breeze and I'd normally want to throw my guts up doing that.

Needed a filling touch up (very shallow on an incisor) - did that with no jab - painless.

He said I was better behaved than his "best" (non drugged) patients. Had a lot of fun discussing the x rays. Quite surpised that teh fillings I thought were ropey are actually, bar 2, very shallow and rock solid.

Tiny bit of decay round the back of one rear molar but he's going to try flouride gel on that to see if it will remineralise when he fits the crown in 2 weeks.

Nice to know it's not all falling to bits :) Wish you could get body MoTs like that...

Biggest problem I have is gumline issues with plaque - due to mineral heavy saliva (got that from my mum). Going to try one of those water jet thingies on hygenist's advice.

[PeterC]

Pressure washer - yeah!