Your guy knew that he didn't make the crown properly. He probably knew this when he installed it and was hoping that you 'wouldn't notice.'
When you DID notice, he should have removed the crown and built it up. How hard this would be to do depends on whether it is gold or ceramic. I have 28 crowns, all ceramic, even the back molars. My situation is relatively unique. Due to an old injury, my natural bite got thrown off, resulting after many years in a progressively severe underbite. Lots of night-time grinding as my jaw tried unsuccessfully to find a comfortable spot. I wore down about 40% of the length of my teeth, further worsening the bite. The cure was to wear a special splint that had to be adjusted frequently, as my jaw joints gradually healed. When it was ready, my specialist dentist did a full mouth restoration. Not only did I have every single tooth crowned, but it was done in such a way to create a 'perfect' bite. Unlike most crowns, the peaks and valleys of the molars were designed to be as close to original style as possible. Most crowns are made relatively flat, kind of like cow's teeth. With a proper crown and a good bite, it should be nearly impossible to grind your teeth on purpose. In my case, my teeth come together in one manner, and one manner only. Your teeth are not supposed to be able to slide from side to side. There are about 5 different philosophies on dental approaches to bites. My specialist is in a field called bioesthetics. Interesting stuff and there is plenty of info online if one googles it. Best of luck, Steve G. --- On Thu, 12/10/09, jessie70 <jessi...@optonline.net> wrote: From: jessie70 <jessi...@optonline.net> Subject: RE: CS>sensitive teeth To: silver-list@eskimo.com Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 1:43 PM Yes I agree Lisa he should have told me before filing any tooth. Jess -----Original Message----- From: Lisa [mailto:blacksa...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:29 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: RE: CS>sensitive teeth Any reliable dentist would discuss options and what he/she was going to do to fix it BEFORE doing the actual work. Ask questions…discuss what YOU want to do first (and what you don’t want to do). At this point I’d consider malpractice. Lisa From: jessie70 [mailto:jessi...@optonline.net] Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 11:58 AM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: CS>sensitive teeth Had my teeth cleaned yest. Dentist capped a tooth 5.5 mths ago. The space he made between it and another tooth is too large. Food gets stuck & I have to clean after every meal. So hygienist said it needs to be redone. Later dentist is alone w/me & says he can fix it. He turns on tool and is pressing against teeth on that side. I held up hand & asked what he did. He had filed down other nearby teeth so my bite would change to fix problem of large space he said. I told him I didn't want to change other good teeth to accommodate crown & he didn't like that. Teeth are sensitive today. Does anyone know what can help that? Jess
