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Dead front tooth . (RIP)- I need advice

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  • 31-01-2022 12:11am
    #1
    lillycakes2
    Registered Users Posts: 305 ✭✭


    Ok so long story short, few years ago was eating , bit the fork and a small chip occurred on my front tooth...….Had the chip mended with a little crown with my dentist, this chipped off somehow again,

    He x-rayed the tooth and it turns out it is dead.

    It is discoloring slowly (getting a bit yellow at the top) :(

    And it still has the little chip at the bottom.

    He referred me to an Endodontist , who was very expensive and I came out of there feeling there was no hope. He basically told me to just live with it and would not advise any treatment?? I paid him 150 for him to tell me this.

    All he said was to try external bleaching (which didn't do much) and then if i wanted they would do root canal( try to whiten it from the inside- but didn't really recommend this as it may not match up to my other teeth color)

    I am in limbo now. I don't like me smile. I used to like my teeth, i was always whitening them, they were lovely and straight, but i feel i have lost confidence in my smile and also that any dentist can help me with full confidence. Neither my dentist nor the Endodontist i visited had any confidence they could fix the problem.

    What should I do. I'm afraid it will keep discoloring and the small chip is really annoying me .



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    #2
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,371 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    I killed a front tooth falling off a seesaw at an age well old enough to know better!

    The dentist did a root-canal on it at the time, but it just went grey gradually, and stuck out like a sore thumb.

    So years ago I got a full crown on it, painstakingly matched to my (very oddly-coloured, and two-tone, as it turns out) other teeth.

    (It's a perfect match, but I now can't get my whole discoloured set bleached, as it won't take the bleach the same, so I'll have a mismatched tooth all over again 🙄)

    Don't know if that helps at all, but that's my experience.



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