Dental Hygienist cracked a tooth.

Larianne

Hello,

I went to the dentist yesterday to have my teeth cleaned by the hygienist and it appears she chipped one of my teeth. It is one of the molars towards the back. It now feels sharp and with a definite hole in it.

What can I do? Do I contact the dental surgery and explain what happened and see if they can have a look at it without having to pay for the consultation?

Thanks.

ballsymchugh

hiya, sorry that this has happened to you. without seeing the tooth itself, all i can say is that it's bloody hard to break a perfectly good tooth with a scaler.
are you sure that it's not some dirt that you were used to, and now it's gone it feels like a hole? you'd be surprised how many people need to have it explained after cleaning that that is what their teeth are meant to feel like, and it'll just take a few days/weeks to get used to the feeling again.
also, if it did break during cleaning, it's pretty likely it was already decayed or fractured. if you call up saying you need a filling and not a check up, and emphasise that, then you'll probably just get a filling.

Larianne

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I thought that about the scaler and that maybe it was a dodgy tooth already. I rang the dental surgery and the girl on the phone said the same thing.

I'm going in tomorrow to have it looked at. Hopefully it can be fixed.

DaveTwenty7

Hi Larianne how did you get on in the dentists, was the tooth chipped?