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Subject: [Leica] O/T Any Dentists 'round here? Cracked tooth - Options?
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Tue Oct 31 15:51:35 2006
References: <A1ECDF88-51D6-4228-B10E-42152BE0DF01@home.netspeed.com.au> <C771F6F3-585B-420D-8F74-BFD2D1472129@pandora.be>

Take them out and use super glue? That's what I'd do.

Philippe Orlent wrote:

> I had exactly the same problem (cracked from top to bottom, that is)  
> a month ago, had it pulled, and do not really miss it. Even not  
> optically.
>
>
>
> Op 31-okt-06, om 21:00 heeft Rick Dykstra het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Apparently we're all Dentists here on the LUG. :-)  Some advice  please.
>>
>> I had a cracked molar sealed back in June.  Lower right jaw, the  
>> third molar from the back (starting from a wisdom tooth).  My teeth  
>> are great in general but this one has had some history.  It had  
>> fillings when I was a teenager, then more substantial fillings in  my 
>> late twenties and now the crack seal job with the rear outside  
>> quarter taken back and filled, at 44 years.  Back in June my  dentist 
>> said that a root canal would not be an option for this  tooth, due to 
>> the crack, and that if it didn't settle extraction  would be the only 
>> option.  Eeek!  Over the last week its been  giving me serious 
>> trouble, just as it was in June.
>>
>> A friend at work says that her dentist offered to do a root canal  on 
>> her cracked molar, though she had it extracted at the time (it  was a 
>> wizzy).  So the question is, is doing a root canal on a  cracked 
>> molar like mine generally an option, or not?  Perhaps my  dentist is 
>> a little conservative. ??
>>
>> Thanks for any clues.  I'm in there this afternoon so your early  
>> thoughts would be valued.
>>
>> Regards, Rick Dykstra.  Australia.
>>
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Replies: Reply from philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent) ([Leica] O/T Any Dentists 'round here? Cracked tooth - Options?)
In reply to: Message from rdandcb at home.netspeed.com.au (Rick Dykstra) ([Leica] O/T Any Dentists 'round here? Cracked tooth - Options?)
Message from philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent) ([Leica] O/T Any Dentists 'round here? Cracked tooth - Options?)