Fifth time I broke this tooth!!!?!
Question: Well when I was maybe 8 or 9 I fell and broke my two front permanent teeth. Like half of both going horozontally. Ok so i got it fixed but they keep breaking over and over again! Like three times a year. One more than the other.Ugh. I hate costing my mother money. Its expensive to get it fixed but I also don't want to walk around like a hillbilly. What can I do so that the next time they fix it, it wont break again
Answers: Well when I was maybe 8 or 9 I fell and broke my two front permanent teeth. Like half of both going horozontally. Ok so i got it fixed but they keep breaking over and over again! Like three times a year. One more than the other.Ugh. I hate costing my mother money. Its expensive to get it fixed but I also don't want to walk around like a hillbilly. What can I do so that the next time they fix it, it wont break again
It sounds to me like they are constantly being fixed with composite fillings. These, especially if they are large and on the incisal edge of a tooth, aren't going to last long. Sounds to me like you need to get these two teeth crowned. Obviously the break was just too extensive to do large fillings on.
A filling bonds to the tooth, but depending on the size, which tooth it is, and where on the tooth it is, it may last a few months or a few years. Since yours is only lasting a few months, the teeth probably need to be crowned. Of course, this is much more expensive, but if you add up the cost of redoing the fillings every few months, the crowns will be a better investment.
You will need to stop using those front teeth to bite, for starters. Things like taking bites out of apples, and eating corn on the cob. When you clamp down to chomp off a bite of something like that, you put extreme pressure on the teeth- likely right at the point where the repair is joining the natural tooth. The only thing close to a permanent fix is to cap those teeth. My sister had the same sort of accident with hers, with the same trouble you have now. The dentist ended up capping both front teeth and one tooth on either side of them with a piece that had all four joined in the back. It was expensive to have done at the time, but it did end the annual repairs to those same teeth. But unfortunately until then, you will have to go easy on front tooth biting.