Dentist recommending a crown?!
Question:
Dentist recommending a crown?
My dentist says I need a crown on one of my back teeth which has got 3 seperate fillings in it at the minute, and apparently has some recurrent decay around one of them. He plans to basically take out the old fillings, drill away the decay and replace it with one big filling, but he says the filling will be so big that the tooth will be too weak unless he puts a crown on it.
He recommended getting a stainless steel crown on it, because it's cheapest and because it's at the back so you won't really be able to see it. I don't really understand totally what a crown is though - does it go over the whole tooth right down to the gum? Or does it just cover the top part of the tooth? And what's the process of having a crown fitted?
Answers:
i have two crowns. [ both on my back teeth ] they have to do a root canal and kill all the nerves in it. then they drill your tooth down and put a fake tooth on it.
its better to go ahead and get a crown than to have them constantly having to fill your tooth.
but trust me, itll never hurt again. =]
ps. i didnt get a silver one. i got one too much the shade of my teeth.