Dental Work Qs
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My wife was going to a dentist in West Des Moines for years. She had a reoccurring horrible migraine-type feeling in sinuses (above teeth/below eye). Dentist couldn't see anything wrong. She went to ENT for sinuses, had several surrounding teeth fixed but still had pain for weeks/months. Eventually, went to another dentist in Ankeny. This dentist immediately saw she needed a root canal, had that done, capped and felt good immediately. Goes to show that they are NOT all the same.
What do you call a person who graduated last in their class from Dentistry school....
What do you call a person who graduated last in their class from Dentistry school....
I'm so thankful for good dentists. When you have a root going off it's one of the worst times of life. I've had lots of work in the past because of terrible care. Now I have great "teeth", I put them in quotes because many of them have some sort of foreign material.
A couple weeks ago I had a crown put on at my local dentist. The technology that exists now is amazing. digital imaging, made the crown right in the office from one solid block so only one visit. The machine made it while I had my teeth cleaned. They dry-fit it and it needed no adjustments. My share after insurance was $500.
Good luck to all of you out there. A good dentist can make your life much better. A bad one will scare you for life.
A couple weeks ago I had a crown put on at my local dentist. The technology that exists now is amazing. digital imaging, made the crown right in the office from one solid block so only one visit. The machine made it while I had my teeth cleaned. They dry-fit it and it needed no adjustments. My share after insurance was $500.
Good luck to all of you out there. A good dentist can make your life much better. A bad one will scare you for life.
I haven't posted much, but as an "experienced" dental patient I figure I'll throw in my two cents. Thanks to one incident in high school in which I broke my jaw and damaged my front teeth, I've gotten a lot experience at the dentist's office. That incident required oral surgery for my jaw, gluing my chipped front tooth back together, and eventually three root canals. Additionally, my dentists have said I'll likely need crowns at some point on the teeth with the root canals since they are "dead" and will likely start to decay or lose color.
All of my experiences with my various dentists and specialists have been phenomenal, however. And I think that is because all of them were focused on protecting and preserving my existing teeth instead of trying to do as much work on my mouth as they can. They had a philosophy that nothing can truly replace your real teeth and function as normally as your real teeth. They've taken a very cautious approach and I've always felt that they're working in my best interest.
It's too bad that there are dentists out there just looking to make a quick buck off of people...I wish there was more integrity in this world.
My word of advice would be to find a dentist you trust and one that wants to monitor for any potential issues rather than "fix" any little problem they might find.
All of my experiences with my various dentists and specialists have been phenomenal, however. And I think that is because all of them were focused on protecting and preserving my existing teeth instead of trying to do as much work on my mouth as they can. They had a philosophy that nothing can truly replace your real teeth and function as normally as your real teeth. They've taken a very cautious approach and I've always felt that they're working in my best interest.
It's too bad that there are dentists out there just looking to make a quick buck off of people...I wish there was more integrity in this world.
My word of advice would be to find a dentist you trust and one that wants to monitor for any potential issues rather than "fix" any little problem they might find.
