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Dentist re: crown
to: Grace Min, D.M.D.
617 524 4401
from: Tim McKenna
617 524 0938(h), 857 498 2574(m) tim@sitebuilt.net
You seemed kind of busy without time to discuss my treatment options. I did get an explanation from the receptionist that a crown was needed since now the tooth would be brittle. Somehow I am less than assuaged. My experience with crowns is periodontal disease, open margins, only lasting about 10 years with eventual extraction of 3/4 of the crowned teeth. All that chopping away to get a place for a post to sit seems very extreme, a waste of enamel.
- What are my options?
- Are there other possible treatments? stronger fillings? inlay/onlay?
- Why not fill it see how it lasts for maybe 5-10 yrs? I think the tooth next to it was root canaled and filled about 25 years ago.
- Are there things I could do to preserve it. I stopped chewing ice years ago, maybe I could stop eating nuts.
- How bad is the down side? So I eventually break off a piece, couldn't I do the crown then?
My dental experience to date has been dismal. (What's left of) my teeth are terrible. I feel that some decisions that were foistered upon me by dentists were not really in my best interest. I would like to work with more of an informed consent. I need a well reasoned, cost effective plan. If you prefer not to have me as a patient, I am fine with that.
I live about a block away, I could come in to talk for a couple of minutes at your convenience. You can email me at tim@sitebuilt.net or call 617 524 0938(h), 857 498 2574(m).
Tim McKenna
