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Short Crown cause additional fracturing in other teeth & other problems?
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Questions in the Dental Health forum are answered by Dr. Jerome Tsang and Dr. Jerome Bogin. Topics covered include bridges, cavities, crowns, and x-rays.

Short Crown cause additional fracturing in other teeth & other problems?

by MissKate, Oct 09, 2007 12:00AM
Last January I broke the back right tooth on a fruit seed. I had braces as a teen - that was the "anchor" tooth, the highest. I am a right side chewer. My dentist put on a temp crown, within days I had four other fractured teeth. He put the perm crown on shorter than the temp, more teeth fractured. Now I have 3 crown them. But each crown is progressively shorter. Now I have little to no contact with right side molars.4/5 more teeth are fractured teeth.
I've been to 4 consulting dentists. The dentists tell me it can't be that crowns are short, even though there is little to no contact with the bite paper on my right side. The xrays show the crowns much shorter than the teeth were.
They tell me I have TMJ but I have no symptoms., (until the last few days – my jaw seems tired) I don't clinch or grind my teeth. They tell me my teeth are moving  but I wear my retainers/guards still fit.  
All four of the consulting dentists here (Northwest Arkansas - I'm from So. Calif) are friends with each other. Collectively,  they say that I need tons more work, now they suggest root canals, teeth reshaping, refitting guards, braces, but they refuse to discuss that my bite is off and the caps don't fit.  
Please help me - Nearly all my teeth bang into each other wrong when I try to eat, talk, even closing my mouth, teeth that never touched before are hitting really hard. Please help me, I don't know what to do. I can't eat. Loosing weight (am thin anyway). Teeth ache. Jaw tired.

by Jerome Bogin, D.D.S. , Oct 09, 2007 12:00AM
I would suggest that you consult a prosthodontist. If you can not find one then call your local dental society or locate a dental school (post graduate department) for a consultation asap.
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