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#1 czGLoRy

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Posted 18 May 2013 - 07:37 AM


Hello, I just had a filling done, and an old filling repaired on adjacent teeth three weeks ago. They started hurting two weeks ago, it is painful to eat and tapping on the tooth is painful. I was given antibiotics and ibuprofen for the pain and scheduled for a root canal treatment. My last one was extremely painful and resulted in an extraction anyways, so I was looking at some information on here and on the web, and I am starting to see some alarming warnings about root canal treatments.

The root canal is to be done on the tooth next to my missing tooth (coincidence?), and then topped with a crown.

I am seeing some warnings to avoid root canal treatments, that the drilling doesn't sanitize the tooth, and basically a dirty dead tooth is left in the body which might have a correlation to autoimmune diseases, cancer, and a host of other fun things. http://articles.merc...20218_DNL_art_1


anyways... I am concerned as I have never heard any of this before, and most of the crown options seem to have some serious downsides; either mercury amalgram leaking toxic mercury, some sort of BPA mix, or metal toxicity risks. What are the best type of crowns? Zirconia seems to be the best but its quite expensive...

Thanks for any thoughts/help.

#2 niner

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Posted 18 May 2013 - 02:01 PM

Crowns don't use amalgam- that's a filling material. BPA is a possible leachant from composite resin, which is the other main option for fillings. I suppose crowns use some sort of cement, but I don't know what they might use there. I have two crowns- one is gold, and the other is gold with a porcelain material fused to it. These are both pretty common crown materials, and as far as I know they possess no significant risks. I don't consider Mercola to be a reliable source of information, so I'd take anything you read there with a grain of salt.

#3 czGLoRy

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Posted 22 May 2013 - 11:04 AM

Sounds like any option for a filling is pretty bad...
I've been on antibiotics since I got scheduled for the root canal and most of the pain has completely subsided, only painful if I bite down pretty hard (been forgetting about the tooth and did a couple of "shocking" bites). I am uninsured and the treatment for a root canal is pretty expensive; is there any merit to doing something else, waiting to see if I can do without the treatment?

any recommendations on crown types to choose from if I do it? Gold and Zirconia sound like the best, but they are pretty expensive. Thanks for the help again

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#4 czGLoRy

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Posted 07 October 2013 - 01:25 PM

I got checked by a second dentist because I wanted a second opinion and didn't really trust the first dentists that much, he also said I needed a root canal. Iactually skipped the appointment because I thought I could possibly save the tooth myself, and, well, I think it worked.
I came here to see when exactly I had the appointments, but I skipped the root canal appointment at the last second, started investigating into dental care (seems like modern dental care, and dentists, are largely BS to me)

avoid wheat
avoid carbonation
avoid sugars
Flossing > Brushing
Pull coconut oil
various experimental "toothpastes"

anyways, I am just getting into the dental care stuff, but these seemed to have worked for me, and I am just getting into researching dental care.

#5 Adamzski

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Posted 06 November 2013 - 03:57 PM

I need root canals for another two teeth but they are not giving me pain right now, I will do it at some stage.

I had a root canal done and a temporary filling put in at my rearmost tooth, basicaly the whole tooth is decayed leaving just a shell of a tooth that would need a crown on it.
Anyone know if I am going to cause problems by not getting the crown straight away? I know that food is easily stuck in there now so I wash my mouth out after eating always and I brush 3 times per day.

#6 czGLoRy

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Posted 09 December 2013 - 06:59 AM

I still have my tooth and it does get food caught in there easily as well, flossing helps more than brushing does. If that doesn't do it sucking on some coconut oil tends to help break things down.

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Posted 03 January 2014 - 04:26 AM

Yes, Always get a second opinion for dentist. I have one dentist that wanted to do treatment roots canal and crown on a few of my teeth. about 15 000$ worth of work... i was like holy @#$#. I left this clinic running before he had time to do anything after he left my tongue without sensation for a month by hitting my tongue nerve with is serigues. anyways fast foreward 2 years later and no appointement with any dentist at all. got see one and he told me, you have 3 small cavities thats it. 1 appointement and everything was done.

ALWAYS GET SECOND OPINION :) or THIRD... :)





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