Re: Bank account is thin ; Was: the Crown Racket

From: NOYB (NOYB_at_NOYB.COM)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:26:37 -0500

"W_B" <no_one@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:hlk4211ovo3128s6bs15ik743qrlvm8m93@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:14:56 -0500, "NOYB" <NOYB@NOYB.COM> wrote:
>
>>> You've never considered onlays for cuspal coverage?
>>
>>I'm typically seeing broken teeth that have a large, deep subgingival
>>class
>>II amalgam, and buccal abfraction. There's not much point in trying to
>>preserve a single (lingual) wall.
>>
>
> Unless your bank account is thin... right ?
>

A crown costs the same as an only, right? But neither is as lucrative as a
root canal.

> Endo, dude.
> No 'standard' type post.
> Look for vertical root fracture...

Joel and I were talking about doing a composite in lieu of an inlay...and
you want to do endo and a post?

>
> Otherwise rip it out.

So now you've progressed from a endo to an extraction for a tooth that
needed nothing more than a class II restoration?

You must be one hell of a clinician.

> Oh, I forgot that you aren't good at endodontic diagnosis either,
> mofo...

I hope you don't diagnose teeth as poorly as you diagnose people.