Re: God forbid anyone should like anything!

RickH wrote:

Joey Goldstein wrote:

Thingo wrote:

Joey Goldstein wrote:

My denstist is trying educate me now about why he thinks I need to spend
$2k for a crown on my right-side lower molar even though most of my
actual pain is happening in a right side upper molar. He can't see
anything wrong with the upper but notices a small crack in the lower.
Now that I've received his letter of assessment and his projected
invoice I know a lot more about molars and dentistry than I did
previously. But I still hate getting my teeth drilled.



Joey, this is OT but I had a hairline crack in a lower molar but
strangely all the pain was felt in the upper.  One day while eating a
bagel, (the morning of my fathers funeral), the lower tooth peak, where
the crack was, finally cracked off all the way.  Suddenly all pain in
the upper was gone.  The nerves in this area criss-cross or something.
To this day whenever I feel that cracked lower tooth, I think of my
dad.  As I was leaving the house to go bury him that morning, I was
chomping a sticky a bagel that pulled the broken the tooth fragment
off.  For a couple years prior I lived with the pain thinking the upper
tooth was bad, when it was really the lower.  I dont go to dentists
often enough, and I think my dad somehow left me this little reminder
of him in my mouth.  2k is steep but at least Canada will pay for some
of it.


Your experence is typical--pain is often reflected up and down (not side to side though).
I had a tough-to-pin down probable crack in a lower molar--sharp pain to biting. My brother adjusted the bite last month. It felt better (I wasn't putting as much pressure on it), but I knew something wasn't quite right.
New Year's eve I pulled out a chunk of the tooth with my floss. My bro cemented my first crown yesterday, and it's still throbbing. Sometimes it's good to get a dose of your own medicine...

Steve

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Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
http://www.dentaltwins.com
Brooklyn, NY
718-258-5001
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