Re: another is it a cavity post...

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:51:10 GMT, "cozyhomelife" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>I had the same kind of thing going on with my dentist. I went in with sore
>teeth that I even told him about and he kept telling me everything is fine.

YUP....

>I finally went to another dentist and he did find all kinds of problems with
>the very teeth I was suspicious of without me even telling him. I only had
>2 worked on at once, but by now, it's not sure if the crown on the tooth
>that actually had cracked will work without the root canal. If the other
>dentist had paid attention when I told him YEARS ago that I couldn't chew on
>it, that tooth could have been fixed with a better chance.


YUP, we got to listen to our patients ... thanks for the reminder.

> If your
>dentist is missing things that even you suspect, get a second opinion fast,
>before your teeth end up further gone, like I did. I had been telling him
>for years that when I bit down on that tooth, it felt soft like it wouldn't
>hold up to biting on something. Later, when it actually cracked and I told
>him that if I so much as got a rice krispy between it and bit down, that the
>pain was so sharp I would scream out, he just said, "sometimes teeth act
>like that".

Exactly. A cracked tooth can often not be detected but the patient
always knows!


> Now, if only I had had a good dentist when it was just feeling
>like it wasn't going to hold up. Oh, and it had filling, which had rotted
>out more under it.

Or, the enamel was already cracked ... possibly the damage was ALREADY
done.



> It was that tooth that is wearing a temporary crown that bugs me enough
>that I came here to here opinions about, which I'm very grateful for.
> I had just had another cavity/problem free checkup from the other
>dentist, and I KNEW I had more than one problem which he dismissed, even
>after I told him I couldn't chew on it, or why does this area look like
>blah, blah. I came home from that appointment and got a magnifying mirror
>and looked in my mouth _again_. Yea, still there, the old silver cavities
>that looked chipped around the edges on several teeth that he didn't even
>mention anything about. I remember him saying the word 'watch' to the girl
>to write down about several teeth.

The shampoo girl?


> Now I have to wonder why they are
>watching them, what for? For them to need to be pulled?
WATCH for the patient to get ...... better insurance ..... better job
......... etc.


> Because they sure
>didn't bother to fix anything, just waiting for them to get WORSE. So, I
>went to the other dentist, first thinking of the tooth that made me scream
>when I bite on it by mistake, with a little plastic prod that he told me to
>softly bite on, he found the bad crack in a few minutes. I was really not
>surprised to hear the news. Then he said, but... it would be good if you
>came in for a complete workup..because I really can't tell you all the
>problems I'm seeing at this time. You know, I really wasn't surprised
>again. It is true that I dislike the woman who runs the office for her


What is HER relationship to the doctor, and where do they prefer to
have dinner?


>zeal in pushing you to try to get it all done at once, but nevertheless, I
>believe all those things are wrong, because I was seeing them in the mirror
>myself before I ever saw him. SO! What I mean is, if you know something
>is wrong and he's missing it, don't wait, like I did, because the problem
>keeps getting worse over time.

Good diagnosticians are KEY!

Joel M. Eichen DDS


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