Have a big dentist fear and lost half a tooth the other day, can anyone talk me through what them might do to me today, as i am ridiculously scared. Thank you!

[Aimsmum]

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Hi, Aims. A similar thing happened to me last year. They didn't take it out (dentists never take a healthy tooth out, even if only part of it's left). They just filled it.

And IT DIDN'T HURT A BIT

Honest!

I did thisa a few years ago, but it was 1/4 of the tooth. Dentist managed to fill it, but said if it didn't work would need a crown. Still seems ok so you may get lucky

PS mine went while eating a crisp, although dentist suggested it had been weakened by something in the preceeding weeks (suspect it was Thornton's treacle toffe )

I lost half a tooth like that, I had a crown fitted to the half that was left. It wasn't too bad, but I did have to have a root canal filling done. If there is no pain then I suspect that the root of your tooth is already dead so you may have to have a root canal filling done too. It takes a while, but it didn't hurt me at all, in fact I didn't even need a local anesthetic.

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I had a few visits, 3 I think, but the last one was very short, just to get the crown stuck on.

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That bad huh? There, there, poor thing. Still, better to get it done and over with.

It's the cost that really makes me wince. I knew my current dentist was going to be expensive when I lay back in the chair and saw he had a flat-screen tv attached to the ceiling.

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