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Tooth Resorption (with current update)

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Update: On May 9, 2022

I found out I do NOT have tooth resorption

The endodontist found a crack inside the tooth that was causing bone loss. And now the remedy is a replacement tooth, a dental implant, so I am relieved it is NOT tooth resorption.

‐—‐–‐The following is my old post——-

I felt a compelling urge to go to the dentist and I’m really glad I did.

It turns out that I have a problem that I never, ever heard of before.

It’s called tooth resorption.

The cause of this may have happened when I was young, but now I’m dealing with the fallout.

The dentist discovered the dark spot inside my right eye tooth this morning after examining an x-ray.

He told me all we have to do now is to monitor it and to recall it once in a while to see what’s going on inside.

So in three months i’m going back to have it checked out.

I went to get a teeth-cleaning this morning, and also to check out a problem with a new crown.

After x-rays, they found that gum tissue was the problem surrounding the new crown and prescribed a special mouthwash.

They also found a strange cast on an x-ray depicting a case of tooth resorption on one tooth. A dark shadow in the tooth that wasn’t there before, likely caused by past facial trauma, bruxism or cheap tooth whitening.

I can only hope it will go away on its own and if it doesn’t, I may have to get an implant, so the infection doesn’t spread to the other teeth.

If you’re interested. you can find out more about tooth resorption right here:

https://www.baldwin-dental.com/blog/post/adult-tooth-root-resorption-is-a-serious-issue-that-requires-prompt-action.html

Happier now 😊

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It was like Instant Karma. I was just talking about my dog’s teeth cleaning and extraction, when somehow one of my bottom teeth snapped and I lost part of a filling. So now I need to go to the dentist and get the tooth edge smoothed off until I can get in for a drill and re-fill, or crown.
Interestingly enough, since I am planning a trip to Williamsburg, Virginia soon, I researched our founding fathers and found out that Paul Revere, the patriot and silversmith learned dentistry under a Mr. Baker, and made dentures and practiced forensic dentistry.
I went to the dentist and it cost over $61 just to shave down the rough part of my tooth and now it will cost another grand to get a crown. Just don’t ask me to put on a pinafore and act in one of those History Channel shows as Martha Washington. That is the big gripe with my dentist, how all those actors with their shiny, white smiles in no way resemble the real early Americans with their rotten teeth. In fact the British noticed Americans teeth and said they were horrible. Now everyone says the British have the worst teeth. Thank goodness for modern dentistry. How far you have come!