Has anyone ever had a tooth with a crown to completely fall out - tooth and all?!
Question: I just had a tooth, with a crown on it, to completely fall out of my mouth. There isn't any pain at all, and to the best of my memory, I don't think that there has ever been a root canal performed on it. This tooth (and the crown) just fell off at the gumline. Has this ever happened to anyone else? What can be done for it that doesn't involve some very expensive work? I should add that this is a visible upper incisor, so cosmetically, it's very important. Please help.
Answers: I just had a tooth, with a crown on it, to completely fall out of my mouth. There isn't any pain at all, and to the best of my memory, I don't think that there has ever been a root canal performed on it. This tooth (and the crown) just fell off at the gumline. Has this ever happened to anyone else? What can be done for it that doesn't involve some very expensive work? I should add that this is a visible upper incisor, so cosmetically, it's very important. Please help.
I'm only guessing on this, but I would say that the tooth was dead thats why it didn't hurt. You either had a root canal and/or it had some trauma to it and turned dark and thats why it was crowned. If the tooth is broken off to the gum line and nothing is sticking out past the gum at all, then nothing can be done for that tooth. The root tip will be extracted and then you can have an Implant placed there. Another option would be to bridge across the space, but that would require 2 teeth on either side of the space to also be crowned.......It is one piece with 3 crowns attached together.
The only reasons the tooth would fall out are:
1. The tooth fractured - you can see that if there is no root attached to the piece that fell out.
2. You have lost the bone support around the tooth from chronic periodontal disease. This can affect the surrounding teeth so have them checked or else you may be loosing other teeth in a similar manner.
You need to see a dentist, have a set of x-rays done of that area and probably your whole mouth, to evaluate the condition of the bone and supporting structures. Your solutions, depending on what the xrays show, will be an implant or a bridge or denture. The bridge will be dependant on how strong the surrounding teeth are as there is no point in trying to anchor a replacement tooth to other teeth that are mobile.