crown elongation and TMJ.

From: Justin (arbenz_54_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: 2 Jun 2004 13:34:21 -0700

Hello. I'm 23 years old and have been having increasingly painful
tmj-like symptoms ever since I had crowns placed on two of my teeth a
little over a year ago. One of the crowns, which was applied to my #7
tooth, has fallen out repeatedly since the surgery. I've had it
reattached perhaps 10 times. My dentist has, up until this week,
repeatedly said that my bite has been causing the crown to fall out.
Now, however, he says that my actual tooth (which he grinded down to
current size) is too small for the crown to properly grab onto. He
says I need to have a crown elongation procedure to expose more of the
tooth so a new crown can be fitted and applied. I am, at this point,
extremely skeptical of any dental procedure. I've yet to see an oral
surgeon or speak with anyone other than my dentist about the TMJ
symptoms. Up until now he has been adjusting my bite by shaving back
the crowns, to see if that would alleviate the TMJ stuff. Today he
finally said that the problem was the size of the original tooth and
referred me to a periodontist for the elongation procedure. I'm very
new to all this TMJ stuff, and as I said I'm skeptical about any
dental procedure since the crowns seem to have triggered the tmj. But
unless I want to just have a nub for one of my front teeth, I need to
go through with the crown elongation thing. From what I've read about
TMJ it seems difficult to predict how anything will affect the
problem, adversely or otherwise. I'm just wondering if anyone here
might be able to offer any input on my situation. Anything at all
would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.

-Justin

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