This just fell out of my mouth!!

[Sparrowlegs248]

Had root canal and crown many years ago. I was just eating soup , of all things, so immediately noticed something very hard! I'm wondering where the rest of it went.

I'm not sure there is any rest of it!

That's the post that is put into the root with the crown stuck on top. I've had a few where just the crown comes off and others where the post comes with it.

Where’s the crown?!

That's all there is!!

Either a) you ate the rest of it or b) that was in your soup and it’s not from your mouth

That has turned my stomach *shivers

Have you a gap now where there was a tooth earlier?

That's happened to me a couple of times

Definitely not in my soup, I had just made the soup from scratch, and yes there is a hole.

Those of you it has happened to, is it an easy enough fix? I hated having it done and might opt for having the whole thing out it's a very back tooth.

Oh dear. I have had a few root canals done but have never seen one fall out. But the other day my back molar collapsed and a huge filling fell out leaving the nerve exposed. It was agony. I went to the dentist who said it wasnt worth trying to save - so he pulled it out. It didnt even hurt after the injections wore off.

Looks like amalgam filling, not crown. The pin could be the root filling... dentists used silver points to fill the roots.Is it an old old root filling?

There was a crown. I don't know what happened it it.........

I had it done about.....15 years ago, at a guess.

Sometimes it is possible to put the post back in but there is a bit of faffing cleaning out the hole the post came out of. Depends on the state of the root, if it was done years ago it might be too decayed. As at the back taking it out might be the best option.

Not a dentist but a lot of experience from the chair end! Crowns are the bane of my life.

And it would be a likely extraction. I work in dentistry.

It’s a post crown minus the crown.

There should be a white covering on it to make it look like a tooth. That might have broken off in bits at an earlier date or you may have swallowed it.

Either way, save that bit and get yourself to the dentist.

I've just had my very back tooth out as I couldn't bear the thought of a root canal. It isn't noticeable that there's no tooth there!

@Soontobe60 I wished I'd had it put as soon as I sat I'm the chair for stage 1 of the root canal.

Oh dear. Why do things like this always happen at weekends?

That looks like the post that your crown would have been attached to - sounds like you've lost or swallowed the crown

That looks like the post and core of a crown
You probably swallowed the white porcelain part
Oh dear. You need to get it checked although you shouldn’t feel any pain

Thankfully not painful!

I had a crown come out like that the other week. Didn’t take long to get it put back in but mine still had the white tooth but attached.

Mine came out recently but could be refitted this time so my dentist just capped off the root for me. So I now have a gap but it's not visible so no bother. He did it this way as I'm terrified of going to the dentist so this was the easiest, least pokey solution.

I am considering this as an option but would like to hear from others how they were, was you kept in hospital, was it general anaesthetic, how much pain afterwards and how long off work.
I have a 13 year old and work as a hca.
Also how long was the waiting list.

@pinkkoala do you mean root canal and crown? It's done at the dentists, not hospital. No not a GA, local injected into the gums if I remember rightly. No time off work, no pain really. Just quite a lengthy time to be in the chair with your mouth cranked open. I have struggled with the dentist ever since if I'm honest.