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Crown questions

  • 27-04-2018 3:11pm
    #1
    Chelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭


    I've had a very slight twinge in a molar for a month or two when chewing. Nothing major but my dentist says there is a crack forming at front of tooth and only option is a crown, or else leave it and tooth will have to be pulled. Cost quoted around €650

    I was in the UK and dropped into a dentist there for a second opinion. They couldn't see anything wrong at all, but when I described what I'd been told here they said possibly a filling would suffice. If a crown was wanted cost would be £280

    I do trust my dentist here but I have reservations about reducing a potentially healthy tooth for the crown and of course the cost. Could anyone advise?


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  • #2
    davo10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,926 ✭✭✭davo10


    A crack on a tooth can be difficult to see, it's the symptoms that often point to a fracture e.g., a twinge when you bite down on the corner of a tooth suggests one of the cusps is fractured. Eventually the cusp breaks off. If a filling sorts the problem by removing the fractured cusp, then go with that. But, the bigger the filling, the more likely it is that more of the tooth will go the same way. Placing a crown protects all of the remaining tooth. There isn't a right or wrong on this, if you have the filling and all is good in the future, you have saved yourself treatment and money, but if more of the tooth later breaks, you look back and think you should have had the crown.

    In relation to cost, crowns are available on the NHS in the U.K. and as fee for this is low there are different grades and prices for crowns (NHS/Intermediate/private), a private grade crown will cost around £250 to make in the Lab so it's unlikely at £280 you will be getting a private one. The difference is material, fit and quality (I know this because I worked in U.K. some years back).


  • #3
    Chelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭Chelon


    Thanks that’s given me more to think about 😊 I’ve been using my dentist here for years so they know my teeth and history well. They showed me a pic of the crack on the PC. Though it didn’t mean much to me she seemed sure. The UK dentist only used X Ray. I suppose I will go with the crown as it seems safest option.


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