I found generic internet advice, but just curious about personal experiences.

Yupppppp

Mine more like....disintigrated

oh no!!!! did you crack one of yours?? (and sorry, not personally!)

martienne: Painful or no? What did you do about it?

biowafers: Pretty sure I did, haha. Not totally positive.

It just fell into pieces out of my mouth, didn't hurt

I didn't do anything about it

Got the tooth pulled 5 years later

Yes I am an idiot

That's... kind of horrifying. Glad it didn't hurt at least!

lol

Well, I was in my 'never go to the doctor or get anything fixed' phase

And since it didn't hurt I just didn't bother

martienne: this is me. Only I still have the tooth in my mouth like 8 years later. Even after pulling one this summer

But dental bills

Yeah...it sucks

yeah i had a tooth disintegrate around a filling once, but it doesn't hurt at all. just really freaked me out in the middle of a work shift

I cracked tooth/filling eons ago. They ended up putting a crown on it since the rest of the tooth was healthy. I did break a different tooth on a bagel, but I ended up getting that one pulled.

golaudydd: Painful or not?

The first one, no. I didnt even know the tooth itself was cracked, just the filling when I went to the dentist.

The bagel tooth, well. It definitely didnt tickle.

Consistent pain or extremely painful then calmed down?

It eventually calmed down but I also took stuff to conquer the ouch.

I chipped a chunk off the side of one, finally had the filling removed and had the whole thing crowned

The part you have to worry about is if it decays. It's less protected and more probe to decay, and if it decays enough to get to the root, then it's root canal time.

Assuming there's enough tooth to save, if not, it gets yanked.

ladyofdragons: Any advice to avoid decay besides the usual brush, rinse with water after eating anything, etc?

Basically I cracked a tooth (under a filling). It hurt a lot at first but not much anymore. It's a month until I'm back in the States.

(And thus until I get it looked at, short of emergency need.. Worst case I could get it looked at in the Netherlands or England.)

was it a metal filling? (just curious)

flossing too probably. but when I had my jaw surgery, they had use a warm saline rinse after each time I ate.

I had sutured incisions inside my mouth and all wisdom teeth removed, so that was needed to keep it clean.

NOT an especially fun flavor but I got used to it after awhile and it was kind of soothing on the inflammation.

Yeah I've had to do that before for stuff, but not sure it would here tbh? Hard to say. And I think it's a metal filling but not positive.

(I had to get part of it redone and I think that's metal but the old wasn't? Possibly the other way around)

I only ask bc my dentist taught me about how the old metal fillings undergo thermal expansion/contraction which weaken the tooth over time.

It's apparently a very common underlying cause for teeth that crack, break, etc.

Getting all your metal fillings replaced with the new stuff though, PRICEY. >_<;;

oh.

that sucks

ladyofdragons: Doesn't surprise me, honestly. But I'm definitely too poor to afford nicer stuff. I'm lucky to have decent insurance through

the federal marketplace (thanks Obama!)