Poll of the Day > Please tell me a permanent crown looks better than a temporary crown

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Went to the dentist for a regular check up/cleanup and a sore tooth, blahblahblah-- I find out I have:

- A fractured tooth
- A cavity
- 4 wisdom teeth that haven't surfaced yet and need to be removed because they're angled weird under the gum

Byebye perfect teeth. 25 yrs old in under a month and ahh shit, 3 hours later, this temporary crown looks like a dome.

I brush regularly and floss properly like 3-4x a week, had no idea it was this bad.

But yeah, will I be able to tell I have a crown at all? It's the same color as the rest of my teeth, thankfully.
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Hopeful bump
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Permanent crowns do look more similar to your actual teeth but youll still likely be able to tell it's a fake tooth. The difference is pretty negligible and unless it's a front tooth it's doubtful anyone would ever know.
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Smarkil posted...

Permanent crowns do look more similar to your actual teeth but youll still likely be able to tell it's a fake tooth. The difference is pretty negligible and unless it's a front tooth it's doubtful anyone would ever know.

It's kinda in the front... it's 2 away from my closest molar >__<
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The proper crowns do look much better.
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I forget that my crown isn't a real tooth all the time.
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No doritos on a temp crown. They'll tear it up, and incidentally have a very similar texture to bits of shattered temporary crown.

BTB posted...

I forget that my crown isn't a real tooth all the time.

...until one pops off.

That fucker isn't going anywhere, I assure you.
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Im gonna get all my teeth replaced with bear teeth
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I had to have one of my front teeth entirely reconstructed because I chipped it when I was younger then (after being repaired) broke it even further in gym class when i was younger by running into a dudes shoulder in handball. i even ripped it out when i got home, though it wasnt actually that bad though that tooth already wasnt normal.

I went a few years with no tooth in there, then I got it reconstructed.

two things: I went to a dental school, so my doctor in training gave me a temporary one, and it looked so bad. when the overseeing doctor came in he laughed at how bad it was. I liked and hated this man. he was around my age(i was like 20 or so, and he was in school so maybe 22-23?) but talked to me as if i was a kid, but his personality was alright. he was of middle eastern or indian decent, likely raised in america but a semi thick accent, but he would throw around terms like bro constantly. one day he was putting in the impression putty and a ton of it got in my mustache and he said "bro your mustache gotta go"

My finished, permanent tooth is on, looks alright(one tint darker than my other teeth), but you wouldnt likely wouldnt know. its much better than the demo tooth i received. Now some shit happened here where my mom kept insisting to the doctor i never had a tooth gap between my two front teeth. I always did. I didnt care to get it taken care of or altered because its just a gap in your front teeth like who cares? but my mom insisted i never did, so the doctor put a tooth in there a little bit crooked to "fill the gap" so to speak. i hate it and even hate my mom in this instance for being wrong. i did have a gap. it wasnt massive but it was there. the doctor drew up the design with gap.

anyways, fun fact: about 7 years after I got it in I noticed something i never knew. the back of my tooth is a silver/shiny color. It isnt real silver but its got the look. I mean of course it makes sense, would also explain why tinfoil(say, biting too much from a sandwich) that touches that area makes me feel a shock for a second. it hurts a little but the sensation is so odd i never forget it.

I had tons of crap happen to my mouth around the age of 25-26 myself (or at least that's when it became noticeable). Wisdom teeth all of a sudden started to shift towards the center of my jaw. My teeth were all messed up in relatively short order, with two of them even grinding into and eating away at each other.

Wound up having to get 2 surgeries for the wisdom teeth, a 3rd for a cyst that developed in my upper gum line, braces for almost 3 years (actually just got them off a couple months ago, and a crown.

Sometimes, things just happen, that you can't control. Can be especially bad if you lack the money to get it taken care of early, and have to wait until it gets worse.

I got a gold crown. I complained about a tooth ache to the dentist prior, she literally glanced in my mouth for half a second and said "it's fine." A few months later, my tooth cracks in half. I immediately change dentists and got a gold crown. Between that and owning a sword and some parrots, I'm feeling very pirate-like.
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