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Re: Root Canal - Front Tooth


This advice is now somewhat dated. My experience now goes back 3 years. I have not been in touch with the dental industry since then to see/know if they have possibly introduced other options.

3 years ago I had 4 root-canaled teeth extracted. This was part of the dental-metals cleanup regimen I chose to follow. I can definitely relate to you sentiment ".. don't want to walk around with a hole in my mouth where teeth belong..." In this respect I was fortunate. All 4 teeth removed were molars - main and or pre, located at the sides where they are generally not visible to the average passer by. Going in to this part of the regimen, I had planned to have something artificial put in place of these teeth to avoid the embarrassment of this ordeal. However, after the final extraction, the dentist advised several months of time to allow thorough healing before proceeding with replacements. At that point I had planned on going with "partial", as in, a partial denture, false teeth popped in and out of the mouth on a small assembly. By the time the healing phase completed, I changed my mind. I decided to do nothing for replacement. At that time, the main options available were: implants; bridges; partials.

It took about 3 seconds or less to realize that implants would be defeating my purpose. Although different than the plug of various ingredients to include Guta Percha, ceramics/porcelain, glues, chord, mercury and steel pins that a crowned, root-canaled, mercury-filled tooth represents, implants are nonetheless an assembly of various artificial compounds (including metal, like, stainless steel) inserted into one's head, namely the jaw bone and gums, after which a false tooth - ceramics/porcelain, is cemented onto. Either way, both represent artificial metals plunged into the jawbone, something I wanted to get away from no matter what they call it and no matte what the purpose.

Bridges require compromising the good surfaces of neighboring teeth. You have a front tooth situation. A bridge will require grinding away parts of each good tooth located on either side of the extracted tooth. This is required because some of the support ... ability to displace forces (when chewing, pulling, grinding food, etc) that teeth provide will be lost when the tooth is extracted and thus nearby teeth must be compromised in ways to allow dental work to "borrow" from these good teeth. Basically I decided against this method because I did not like the idea of purposely degrading otherwise perfectly working teeth in order to make up for the extracted tooth.

Among the reasons I ultimately decided to not do anything was that the healing period allowed me more time to contemplate while also getting advice and or input from other people. One other person mentioned to me that after having gone several months (the waiting period) that if I went ahead on got partials, it would be quite difficult to adjust to the annoyances they present. I thought about this. It made sense. I'd already spent several months learning to live without the teeth extracted. To continue with the plan meant that I would once again need to go through the process of adapting to partials that ultimately would not ever work anywhere close to real teeth, and would probably end up being an expensive source of aggravation... kinda like glasses that some people pay for, but they seldom wear them because they've learned how to get buy without them.

Your situation is a bit different.

Good luck.

 

 
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