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Extracting a tooth with a rod/post.
Added: September 10, 2006 - 10:51 AM
By: Patient Email Withheld, Horton, KS |
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Root Canal
Teeth: 7,10
Last Full Mouth X-Ray: 2001
Last Cleaning: 2001
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I've had a problem tooth #6 for a while now. When I was younger, I had a rod/post placed in it after a root canal. It's been decaying from the inside out ever since, into an hourglass shape. A couple of months ago, a large piece broke off right in the middle, leaving a gap. Later the same day, the back cracked in the same spot, but nothing broke off. I can't bite on the tooth at all, or the tip moves up, allowing the unjoined lower half to overlap in the back. It snaps when it does too, an aweful sound.
I've tried talking to the local dentists, and all they tell me is the 101 things that have to do to it, but I can't get anything done even if I did have insurance. I'm told they aren't taking new insurance patients, and no one takes payments. Since the tooth broke, I haven't been able to eat, sleep OR brush my teeth properly, which I was doing until it broke.
I'm debating on pulling it myself, and was looking up rods/posts online to see how they are set in the tooth. It seems that with the rod/post that was put into the tooth, and with how my tooth is now, if I tried to pull it, the tip would break off leaving the end of the rod exposed and me with no way to finish pulling the rod/tooth fragments out because they'd be too close to my gums to grab.
Tooth #9 is starting to do the same thing. i'm even more worried about that one... every time I bite down, pressure is pu ton 9......... I can't live like this anymore, please give me some advice. :(
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