Re: Small Cavity: no treatment advised! Is that ok?

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:57:53 -0500, "DrSteve" <drsteve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Ciao,
>
>I guess we are damned if we want to treat something that the patient does
>not feel pain from and we are damned if we don't treat something too small
>to warrant cutting good enamel to gain access to. :=)
>
>Seriously, this is a good situation for using the DIAGNOdent.

Exactly. Better to err on the side of caution ........ too many kids
end up with bombed-out molars ...... and every other tooth just
perfect.

Joel

> It does
>provide extra useful information to help in making these tougher decisions
>
>SM (the other Stefano)
>
>
>"Stefano Tirelli" <oppenheimer@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:XF69f.15643$65.456261@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Hello, I am 26 and I had no problems to my teeth to date.
>> A few days ago I had some moderate pain around my molar, I was worried
>> and by self-inspection I noticed a small dark hole (about 0.5 mm
>> diameter) on the outside of a molar. Worried by a cavity, I ran to the
>> dentist (new dentist, for above reasons), who dimissed me quickly saying
>> that it was too small do be considered cavity (caries) and it needed to
>> be monitored and eventually cured if developin, but not now. And pain
>> was probably due to the wisdom teeth which is coming out now (true).
>> With my inistence, he said we could get rid of it now with a filling,
>> even it wasn't necessary.
>>
>> Now, to my knowledge leaving bacteria in my mouth is not good at any
>> time, at any size. My question is if I should trust this dentist or not,
>> even if it was advised by a person I care about a lot. He did and x-ray
>> to see if there was an intra dental cavity, but was very fast overall.
>> It must be noted though that my appointmend was squeezed in the morning
>> schedule cause I was worried, so he probably didn't have much time.
>> Though to my knowledge it sound strange that a dentist advises to leave
>> as is a potential receptacle for bacteria.
>>
>> I don't know much about dentist so, what are your opinion on this?
>> I know there are far worse problems, but I'd really like to keep my
>> teeth healthy...
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Stefano
>

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