Dental crown disappointment

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I know it’s early days, and maybe I just need to give it chance, but I’m feeling so disappointed and frustrated over a dental crown that I had fitted on Monday.

It’s so obvious, it is one of my molars, but the closest to the front one, so it’s in my smile. It doesn’t match my tooth colour, it’s larger than my original tooth so my smile looks different.

As it’s bigger, I can feel it in my mouth, I can feel it on the inside of my cheek. It’s also weirdly smooth, so it has no “texture” it’s totally flat on the surface. Fortunately it’s an upper tooth so you can’t see that part, but I’m aware of it.
It also isn’t comfortable to bite down on, not painful, but feels like a wobbly tooth.

Will it get better? Should I go back?

I would go back if your not happy.
The colour should certainly match, I have several crowns and colour wise you can’t tell them from my own teeth.
Sometimes they do need a few days to feel right but not if they feel huge. Not sure what you mean by the top is totally flat? It should be shaped to give bite to your bottom tooth.
My husband had an implant fitted on one of his front teeth a few years ago and when he came home it was so white it would have glowed in the dark!
He said he was so traumatised having it fitted he didn’t look and just wanted to get home. He did go back however a few days later and have it redone and now it’s fine.

I’ve got 2 crowns, both were colour matched, although I agreed with both colours and actually carried the crown back from the off site person doing the colour match, both of them are not perfectly matched. I did feel the crown molar was too big but after a couple of weeks it was fine, so maybe it’s just because it feels different and you need to give it time to settle down. My dentist would want to know if I wasn’t happy with it, so do go back if you are unsure.

It’s totally smooth and flat, there’s no bite shape at all. It’s just weird, it feels weird there’s a strange pressure when I bite down on anything that isn’t soft - no pain and no heat/cold sensitivity

Just feels like I have an imposter in my mouth!

I think I’ll give it time to settle then go back. I don’t have a huge amount of faith in my dentist, I’m a new patient and she’s been a bit awkward at the couple of appointments I’ve had so far.
The colour I can get past, it’s annoying but nothing more, but I’m not sure I can cope with the feeling forever if I can’t bite down on food anymore . It’s so hard to describe

It takes a little while to get used to the feeling of a new crown but it should be more or less the. Same size as your original tooth and the colour should be a close match.

This isn’t right. I’ve got crowns but I couldn’t tell you which teeth because they look and feel exactly like my own teeth. I’d go back, or ask for a second opinion on the quality of the work from another dentist.

What you describe almost sounds like a temporary crown rather than a permanent one . Did the dentist not give you a choice of colours to pick from , I was given 3 possible ones out of a large selection and picked the one I thought was the best match . My temporary crown is how you describe, flat on the bottom as they don’t recommend eating on that side while waiting for the proper one and very smooth . I’m hoping the proper one will be a good fit as it’s based on some computer wizardry that did 3d scans of both upper and lower jaws . Definitely give them a call if you aren’t happy and they can let you know how long it might take to settle .

Is this the permanent crown?

Its worth giving them a call - they may well say leave it a week or two before coming back, but it’s worth starting the call rolling.

It’s the permanent one, I’d had a temp one on for 3 weeks waiting for the permanent to arrive. The temp wasn’t comfortable, but looked exactly like my tooth

Is this NHS or private?

NHS

Don't put up with that. I had a crown that felt too big. I assumed it must be ok but the tooth it connected with eventually broke because of the extra pressure. And it should absolutely have been shaped to match the existing bite. It takes my dentist a while to check the bite, shape the crown a bit more, check again until it feels natural.

I’m afraid NHS treatment is there to secure health , not to be aesthetically brilliant.

The labs and materials used in NHS dentistry have a far smaller choice of colours and stains so you are not going to get the cosmetic result you would with a private crown.

To be honest it’s amazing the NHS dentist put a white crown on a molar , normally it would be a silver coloured crown made out of non precious metal .

The dentist is not going to replace this on the NHS to improve looks , they will have already lost money on the treatment . The NHS is there to secure health and the crown will have done that. For a good cosmetic result you need to go private as it is quite difficult on a back tooth . https://www.bda.org/media-centre/nhs-dentistry-treasury-now-no1-roadblock-to-saving-service/

Hmm I think it’s NHS, but looking at the costings online, I wonder if it’s private. I was given two choices of crown one was just over £500 and the other 1k. I was shown both and opted for the £500 one as it looked fine. This looks nothing like that, it looked like a proper tooth - this looks nothing like a tooth.

The colour I’m getting used to, it is brighter than my own, but it’s ok. I’m still struggling to bite down on it as it just feels odd, that part I don’t like

Does sound like private. Max charge on NHS is just over £300 and I got a front zirconia crown for that price. Even for a zirconia crown it’s not a great match and looks brighter, I think it’s because we know it’s there and see it more

its the bite part that’s the concern, you really should go back to the dentist for them to sort that out