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gum irritation from crown

ardmacha · 2008-07-07 21:18:51

I have a cantilever bridge, bridging one tooth from a crown on the one beside it. The crowned tooth has had a root canal and as part of the tooth broke, it has a metal post. I recently had this bridge replaced. I have problems with the gum over the tooth supporting the bridge. My dentist in NI sent me to a gum expert who…

07-07-2008 9:18pm

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I have a cantilever bridge, bridging one tooth from a crown on the one beside it. The crowned tooth has had a root canal and as part of the tooth broke, it has a metal post. I recently had this bridge replaced. I have problems with the gum over the tooth supporting the bridge. My dentist in NI sent me to a gum expert who pronounced that this was caused by a gap in the tooth supporting the bridge which means that the dental cement is coming into contact with the gum, causing the irritation. The gum specialist wasn't too optimistic about solving the problem by a gum operation, so I haven't gone along this path yet. However I have little enthusiasm for having the tooth pulled,as this is a chain effect, a dodgy crown mean one was pulled, leading to bridge, problems with that tooth, pull that and put a bridge on the next one and so on.

My understanding is that you would need an inert material between the gum and the dental cement and it seems that this problem is one that someone has invented a material for in the world of dentistry. It is not easy to remove the bridge to work on this from underneath, but if there was a solution likely to work I'd get another bridge.

Anyone have any insight here?

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