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Need root treatment on 2 teeth? Why?

  • 05-07-2006 4:39pm
    #1
    funkymonk
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    Hello,
    I require root treatment on 2 teeth. I am told that there is infection but I just don't understand how this happened! It will cost me over 2000 euro for the root canals and crowns.

    In the year 2000 I got 4 fillings, and I brush my teeth twice a day, floss occasionally, rarely eat chocolate/sweets and take fizzy drinks.

    Now 6 years later 2 of these filled teeth are infected and require root treatment.

    I'd like know how the teeth could get infected and is this normal for filled teeth to fail like this.

    Would it have been shoddy work from my first dentist who did the fillings? What are the percentages for teeth that were filled to 'fail' and require root treatment? I'm really just looking for a reason to understand for myself.

    Help!

    thanks.


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  • #2
    DublinWriter
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    funkymonk wrote:
    Hello,
    I require root treatment on 2 teeth. I am told that there is infection but I just don't understand how this happened! It will cost me over 2000 euro for the root canals and crowns.

    In the year 2000 I got 4 fillings, and I brush my teeth twice a day, floss occasionally, rarely eat chocolate/sweets and take fizzy drinks.

    Now 6 years later 2 of these filled teeth are infected and require root treatment.

    I'd like know how the teeth could get infected and is this normal for filled teeth to fail like this.

    Would it have been shoddy work from my first dentist who did the fillings? What are the percentages for teeth that were filled to 'fail' and require root treatment? I'm really just looking for a reason to understand for myself.

    Help!

    thanks.
    I'm no dentist, but that won't stop me from having a go!

    Generally when dentists are doing fillings, they'll drill out as much decay as possible. Once they drill through the decay, they start hitting 'healthy' tooth, so they stop and minimise as much healthy tooth area loss as possible.

    However, they don't always get all the decay out because generally it's quite difficult to fit an electron-microscope in yer gob. They could quite normally miss microscopic areas of decay that will be sealed under the filling material and quite happily start decaying under the filling again.

    It's all down to their skill and 'drillsmanship' basically. There's only so much they can see with the naked eye.

    It sounds like the above is your particular case, since you mention that the original restorations (fillings) were done in 2000, so any decay under the fillings had lots of time to run amok.

    I'm not sure why you require crowns as well. Maybe it's because teeth that have been root canaled 'die' and blacken in colour over time, although they remain structurally sound.

    A friend of mine had a root canal done on one of his front teeth and it hasn't discoloured yet (18 months later) although it probably will.

    2000 yoyos sounds reasonable for 2Xroot canals and crowns in the ROI. I'm guessing this is on your front teeth?

    (P.S. Lomb - do I pass the 'Barrack-Room Dentist' exam?)


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