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Can you fit a crown without root canal treatment?

  • 19-11-2009 12:52pm
    #1
    Run_to_da_hills
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    I was told I may need three crowns on in my lower jaw. Can this be done without canal treatment?


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  • #2
    Big_G
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    Its a tough question to answer. In some cases crowns are necessary without root canal treatment. It depends on your particular case. On molar teeth, in 99% of cases, root canal should not be done without putting crown on after.


  • #3
    marco_polo
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    A crown can be placed without a root canal if the tooth is in good enough condition


  • #4
    Run_to_da_hills
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    marco_polo wrote: »
    A crown can be placed without a root canal if the tooth is in good enough condition

    Chers.


  • #5
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    I was told I may need three crowns on in my lower jaw. Can this be done without canal treatment?
    Absoutly yes no problem at all


  • #6
    res ipsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭res ipsa


    Your dentist should have taken periapical x-rays of the three teeth, and made a report on the x-rays to say there was no disease on the ends of the roots.
    Sensibility tests (hot, cold and electric) should have been performed to show that the nerve is responding normally. Diminished or exaggerated responses are a bad sign that the nerve is shot.
    The dentist should have examined the gums for sinus tracts or tenderness in the sulcus and none of the teeth should be tender to percussion. There should have been no response to a fracture finder which checks for cracks in the tooth.
    Crowned teeth need root canal treatment at a rate of 1% per year after crowning according to a study by a chap called Valderhaug, so 25 years after crowning a quarter of the crowned teeth had been root treated.
    Second opinions are always worthwhile on big (often expensive) treatment plans as the biological damage done to teeth by poor decision making and poor technical execution is sadly irreversible.
    You only get one chance to make a first impression...


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