I had a large filling and my dentist said it was cracked, so my dentist suggested a crown.
He did the prep, and set a temporary crown until the permanent was being made. While with the temporary crown I complained about pain on the tooth when biting down..The dentist response, the temporary crown is just too high! He went on with the positioning the permanent crown on, adjust the bite and send me home…
I came back complaining that I still have the pain on the same tooth. OH! Then you need a root canal!! He said.
My question is: Shouldn’t he figure that out before putting the permanent crown in?
Is this lack of experience on his part? After that I found out that he graduate in 2005...
So now he went on and performed the root canal over the crown, leaving the filling seeing on the crown… I did not know that was the way to do things and when I asked on my next visit if the dark spot on the crown would even out, since I thought the purpose of the crown is to cover the filling…his response was, the purpose of the crown is because you had a very large filling!!!
Ok, now more than a month past and I started having pain on the same crown, and the crown have a very tiny wiggle if I try to move it... Went back to him and he said that this tiny movement is normal with the ligament, his proposition to my problem is take the RX antibiotic for 7 days and wait a month to see if, the antibiotic take care of the infection that he sees on the x-ray, “small gray area" if stop the pain we are done; but if the pain continues, he will go back in and thru the same hole and re-do the root canal. Wouldn’t that week the crown and give me less life on the crown and making it prone to crack?
Can I request that he do-over of the crown? Do I have the right giving the whole scenario? And what is the standard of care?
Please advice, this doctor did one previous root canal and then a crown on another teeth and I did not had a problem with it.
Ok, I got some impute from you guys, and one of the suggestion was the it was reasonable on my part to ask for another crown, since it was done recently, this Dentist didn’t take it very well, and now he changed his approach and instead of go back and re-do the root canal he said that I have high expectations and sincerely he doesn’t want to treat me anymore and he wants to send me to root canal specialist. And the costs are mine to incur since nobody can guarantee a root canal…
I appreciate your thoughts on this scenario.
Allie101