a question for a dentist or someone that works in a dentist?
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I work FOR a Dentist.:) \nUsually the dentist would do the bonding so that you don't have to go through the expense and time of orthodontia work. Especially if your other teeth are straight and your bite is correct. I'm sure your dentist would be willing to discuss all options that would work best for you. You should really talk to Him/Her.
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i take pretty good care of my teeth and i visit the dentist regularly, besides, that's what they're there for, why get embarressed...however, i still from time to time get one of those creatures on my teeth, so i get it treated, proceed with the dentists' instructions and move on. but i can offer you this, obviously you're not taking care of your teeth as well as you should to have two-three cavities and a rotten tooth at one time...so you may want to work a lil harder on cleaning your teeth and visit the dentist sooner than later. finally, where is the embarressment coming from? it goes beyond the dentist...soul search. people tend to get embarressed when they worry about what people say about them. not i and you should'nt either...hell, if no one had bad teeth the dentists would'nt have a job...
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how about going to your dentist and asking them what would be a good one to do, they should have plenty of ideas as they will now about all aspects.
799879
call your dentist! They do care more about you than the money. Ask them if you can pay them so much a week.
391355
I had this done a year ago- cuz Im like a total WOOSEY when it comes to the dentist!  I paid out $250 to be knocked out while he worked on me.  IT WAS WELL WORTH IT!  If u r as afraid of a dentist as Iam its worth the money.  They do the work and u wake up with a bottle of vicodin in your hand and u didnt feel a thing!
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the crown is pressing too much against your gumz. Have your dentist give you a shot and tell him to go around your tooth with a cavitron. No this is not normal. Its normal for shitty dentistry.
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Hello! I'm an NHS dentist.\nOn a typical day  (8.30 to 6) I will treat/ see around 25 patients, sometimes more. Some will just be coming in for check up and a clean (15mins for adults, 5ish for a young child), others for fillings (about 25- 30mins for an appointment, although you can get several done in that time). I will probably see a couple of patients who need dentures made (10-15mins per apppointment) and maybe some more complicated procedures such as root canal (endodntics, 45mins per appointment) or crown/ bridge work (also 45mins for the drilling, maybe 15 to fit the work).\n\nMost patients are lovely, but the few problems we get concern either unrealistic expectations of the patients, or money. I guess we don't ever really see people at their best as most are worried about real or imagined pain/expense, but most of the time as long as the dentist explains, doesn't hurt and the fillings stay in, people are happy!\n\nHope this helps.
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Price shoppers are the worst\n\nI get this question all the time on the phone.\nHow the heck can a dentist tell you how much it will cost to get a filling over the phone?\n\nHow many surfaces is it?\nHow phobic are you?  Will you need nitrous? \nhow deep is it?  Maybe it will need  a root canal?\nMaybe your picky and obsesive and will not be happy with\na metal filling. \n\nSmallest  filling  1 surface    $75\nImplant Crown and bone Grafting $5000\n\nhow much will it cost, . . Sheeeeessssh\n\nGood luck \nGo to the cheapest dentist in town and get the cheapest work, yeah that makes sense.
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My problem is the sound of the tools, the drill, the water, the suction.  I hate the small talk they dentist have over you...so what I do is bring a CD/MP3 player.  That way I have music to calm me and I don't really hear with is going on around me....\n\nI was able to be put to sleep during the removal of my wisdom teeth so that was great for me!!!\n\nI hope all goes well!
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This happened to me once,the pain got so bad the local doc MADE the dentist see me,but by that time the tooth had to come out :/ useless people. I swear dentists are the least caring bunch of idiots in the whole medical profession
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I'm a dentist.\n\nI find it absolutely hilarious that three dental assistants would answer a question about "what makes a good dental assistant".\n\nObviously, personality goes a long way.  Your personality should be similar to that of the doctor with whom you work.  If you're loud and rambunctious and your doctor is quiet and reserved, he/she will not like you.\n\nAppearance is important.  If you look like a punk, you'll be treated like one and your stay in the practice will be short-lived.  We run a doctor's office, and our staff should dress and carry themselves accordingly.\n\nAbility is also paramount.  Some assistants don't know where to put the suction and don't know how to retract the cheek.  Furthermore, some assistants are great at keeping the doctor's mirror clean.  Others are terrible in that respect.  Furthermore, a good dental assistant will never let the doctor "work underwater".  Being skilled at keeping the tooth dry is of paramount importance.\n\nKnowing how to take good x-rays.  Unless the practice uses digital x-rays, an assistant who has to repeat x-rays is more of a detriment to the doctor than a help.  Simply "getting" the tooth on the film isn't enough.  The tooth shouldn't be elongated or shortened much in the film.\n\nKnowing your instruments.  There are few things more frustrating than asking an assistant for a Potts or a Woodson Periostial during a difficult surgery case and receiving a blank stare.  When you start in your new practice, learn the names of all of the instruments ASAP, and know what they are used for.  Do whatever you can to memorize this stuff.  I work with assistants who have been in the practice longer than I have and STILL don't know some of the things I ask for.  It's annoying, and it's shameful.  But I love the ones who know the instruments and their uses.\n\nHaving things set-up properly.  Don't cut corners.  If your doctor is doing endo, have everything set up.  It's exquisitely annoying when I reach for the endo handpiece and, oops, it's not there.  Or when I'm placing a composite filling and, oops, the curing light isn't there.\n\nNever pass blame on to someone else.  That kind of nonsense doesn't fly with us.  We don't care who forgot to replace the burs in the bur block, and we don't care who forgot to re-stock the anesthetic in that operatory.  If you're assisting with the procedure, it's YOUR responsibility to make sure that everything we need is there.\n\nShow initiative, and take responsibility for the upkeep of the operatories.  I cannot tell you how many times I've worked on patients where I had no light coming from the handpiece because the bulbs on the hoses burned out.  If I didn't mention it to the assistants, I could work for 10 years before any of them noticed it.  Look around and see what needs to be fixed, replaced, cleaned, etc.  You are the ones who keep us running smoothly.\n\nNEVER try to diagnose patients.  Some of the more experienced (or gutsy) assistants try.  They seem to think that over the years they've heard us say to patients pretty-much everything there is to know about the science of dentistry, and therefore able to usurp some of the diagnostic responsibility.  When you try to diagnose, you are going to be partially wrong or completely wrong on anything that isn't just plain obvious...even if you're an experienced assistant.  When the doctor comes in and gives the patient the diagnosis, the patient responds, "but your assistant said.....".  We hate that.  We don't want our patients being primed with ideas in their heads that we wouldn't want there.  Let the doctor do the diagnosing.\n\nNever predict treatments.  Never tell a patient "you are probably going to need a root canal on this tooth" unless the doctor told you to inform the patient.  I've had assistants do this and it i
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hey try t dentist....
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I'm a dentist.\n\nAttrition, my good friend.  Attrition.\n\nAs we age, our teeth tend to wear a little, but just a little.  Not enough to significantly alter the shape of any tooth.\n\nDid you know that the only time that our upper teeth and lower teeth should come into contact with each other is when we swallow?  Other than that, they should never touch.  Not when chewing your food.  Not when talking.  And certainly not at rest.  This is a fact.  The key words here, however, are "should never".  Unfortunately for most people, they touch much more frequently.\n\nWhat really changes the shape of our teeth is wear against the opposing teeth.  Many people grind their teeth or have some sort of habits that involve touching teeth together.\n\nAdditionally, dental work (with the exception of metallic materials) wears away the opposing teeth more quickly.  Porcelain crowns are notorious for causing excessive wear on teeth opposing them, as porcelain is much more abrasive than enamel.\n\nCanine teeth, both upper and lower (but especially the upper) serve an extremely important job in the mouth, and it is why any good dentist would make every last effort to save a canine tooth rather than extract it.  To explain this, I have to give you a little info about our masticatory system.  We have various muscles that close our jaws: masseter, temporalis, and medial pterygoids, all of which are controlled by the mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve (Cranial nerve 5).  This nerve originates in our brainstem, if memory serves.\n\nTeeth do not sit directly in bone.  They are suspended by the periodontal ligament (PDL for short), which has many nerves in it, some of which are pressure sensors that tell your brain how much pressure is being applied to the teeth.  That's how you know to chew hard on beef jerky and softly on ice cream.  When your molars' PDLs pressure receptors are stimulated, your brain knows that it is ok to provide full biting force with your muscles of mastication.  After all, they are thicker, more robust teeth that can withstand those forces.\n\nIn contrast, your front teeth (canines included) are less robust and are not suited to withstanding heavy biting forces.  As a result, when the PDLs of your front teeth are stimulated, feedback is sent to the brain causing your muscles to reduce their force.\n\nWhen your jaw is in its "neutral" position (for lack of a better word that the lay person can understand), your molars will occlude with each other, but your anterior teeth won't (i.e. the shouldn't, unless you have some abnormality).  Your teeth are safe this way.  Move your jaw side to side or even forward a little, and what happens?  Your canines start to hit eachother, and through feedback from the canines' PDLs your brain knows to relax the muscles.  It is a protective mechanism for both your teeth and your jaws that prevents you from biting hard with your jaw in a position that can cause damage to the teeth or TMJ.  This is known as "canine guidance".\n\nIndividuals who, for one reason or another, move their lower jaws more than usual are rubbing their canines more, hence the attrition.\n\nThis is about as simple as I can make the explanation.  I hope it helps.  I'll bet you never knew there was so much to the profession of dentistry!
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Get it out!!! Oh I totally feel for you and know exactly what you are saying. I am a dental assistant and I work in a dental office, however the doctors in my office did not want to remove my wisdom teeth because of the way they sat in relation to the nerves, etc. I waited it out, forever in so much pain before I finally saw an oral surgeon, who specifically deal with extractions opposed to general dentists. He did a great job, and no after effects, and all the pain is gone! I strongly advise you to get in there and get them out. They always warn you about the risks, they have to, but not to worry. You will be in good hands. Good luck!!!
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When I purchased our practice long ago, we took over from a retiring dentist.  There was one family Iremember the mom was all over us, "She wanted to know who these new kids were?"  Well we saw the girls, it was one question after another.  We finsihed the exam.  Each girl had 6-7 cavities.   She wanted  us to show her, so we did as best we could pulled out the X-ray, tried to cam a full year of radiography into a 30 second explanation.  pocked the little pocky thing(exporer) into some stick spots.  Well needless to say they never came back.  They even went so far as to call the previous owner and tell them how agressive we were.  Turns out the previous dentist was terified of the mom and dad,  She had always been all over him and over the years  he just wanted to get them out of the office whenever they came in.  He under treated unintentionally because of the mother and father.  \n\nAs far as your situation, look, if you don't trust your dentist, ask him to show you the cavity.   Whenever I sense that a patient is not confident in my diagnosis. I'll stop in the middle of the procedure get my intraoral cameral and take a snapshot of the lesion.  ust to re-assure the patient that he has made the right decision.  Ask your dentist if he can show you the cavity.  We love questions.  Good luck\nThey are your teeth, you have the right to ask questions.
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Talk to your doctor and to your dentist and see what they have to say. I would probably say it's okay (except for the painkillers, possible), but to be on the safe side, TALK TO YOUR DENTIST AND YOUR DOCTOR!
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call your dentist !!!! let him check it out