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Subject: [Leica] O/T Any Dentists 'round here? Cracked tooth - Options?
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Wed Nov 1 01:32:26 2006
References: <A1ECDF88-51D6-4228-B10E-42152BE0DF01@home.netspeed.com.au> <C771F6F3-585B-420D-8F74-BFD2D1472129@pandora.be> <4547E07E.8090902@waltjohnson.com>

:-D



Op 1-nov-06, om 00:47 heeft Walt Johnson het volgende geschreven:

> Take them out and use super glue? That's what I'd do.
>
> Philippe Orlent wrote:
>
>> I had exactly the same problem (cracked from top to bottom, that  
>> is)  a month ago, had it pulled, and do not really miss it. Even  
>> not  optically.
>>
>>
>>
>> Op 31-okt-06, om 21:00 heeft Rick Dykstra het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> Apparently we're all Dentists here on the LUG. :-)  Some advice   
>>> please.
>>>
>>> I had a cracked molar sealed back in June.  Lower right jaw, the   
>>> third molar from the back (starting from a wisdom tooth).  My  
>>> teeth  are great in general but this one has had some history.   
>>> It had  fillings when I was a teenager, then more substantial  
>>> fillings in  my late twenties and now the crack seal job with the  
>>> rear outside  quarter taken back and filled, at 44 years.  Back  
>>> in June my  dentist said that a root canal would not be an option  
>>> for this  tooth, due to the crack, and that if it didn't settle  
>>> extraction  would be the only option.  Eeek!  Over the last week  
>>> its been  giving me serious trouble, just as it was in June.
>>>
>>> A friend at work says that her dentist offered to do a root  
>>> canal  on her cracked molar, though she had it extracted at the  
>>> time (it  was a wizzy).  So the question is, is doing a root  
>>> canal on a  cracked molar like mine generally an option, or not?   
>>> Perhaps my  dentist is a little conservative. ??
>>>
>>> Thanks for any clues.  I'm in there this afternoon so your early   
>>> thoughts would be valued.
>>>
>>> Regards, Rick Dykstra.  Australia.
>>>
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In reply to: Message from rdandcb at home.netspeed.com.au (Rick Dykstra) ([Leica] O/T Any Dentists 'round here? Cracked tooth - Options?)
Message from philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent) ([Leica] O/T Any Dentists 'round here? Cracked tooth - Options?)
Message from walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson) ([Leica] O/T Any Dentists 'round here? Cracked tooth - Options?)