Fillings last but 30 years

[szasz]

Monday morning I was eating a bowl of fairly mushy cereal when without warning I bit down on something very hard. Extracting it from my mouth, I felt a wave of nausea when I realized it was a fairly large part of one of my teeth. My far lower left molar (tooth #18 in the dental numbering system) was, my tongue soon discovered, mostly missing, with

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[skywind8]

Great. That means I have about 6-8 years to go before my teeth start falling apart. Lovely.

Thanks for sharing anyhow. :) Good luck on the feeling better.

[starlabuck]

Oh you poor thing!! Having gone through recent tooth trama myself I can tell you how fortunate you are that you don't have to have a root canal. I swear, putting the temporary crown on hurt more than my actual root canal. But I have my permanent crown now and all is good!

Sorry I missed your facebook chat!! I hopped on real quick to write on someone's wall, then walked away without closing out my browser :-(

[gdmusumeci]

You know that you can preemptively replace those amalgam fillings with resin ones, yes? (I had that done about five years ago, and MUCH prefer the resin.)

[szasz]

Yes, after this work is done I'm going to have a talk with the dentist about what to do about the rest before they turn into dental emergencies one by one.

[______blackout]

I had 2 root canals recently, and a wisdom tooth pulled, and let me just say, root canals are a piece of cake compared to the extraction. Seriously, not that bad. Your dentist sounds great :)

[recursive]

My impression was that they tend to last longer than the resin composite fillings, but I guess that may be wrong.

I do know that the composite ones are far more sensitive to technique and proper cleanliness, since they have to bond in place. (The amalagam fillings were more just wedged in place mechanically.)