WAH! I broke a tooth too - just now...cornflake cookie...musta rotted from the inside - I put off having my teeth checked because of chemo (probably aided in my dental downfall)...I can see the section that's broken, it's a segment on top of where a filling is so I'm hoping that means it can be rebuilt.
Lucky for me Medicare will be paying for it this time (...I hope).
MG - what happened in the end - were you able to get it rebuilt???
MD - short answer is yes. I went to the clinic and saw a different dentist to normal who did a crap job cleaning it and didn't seal it properly. She wanted me to have it out but I refused hence the crap job. About 5 weeks later I was in major pain so rang for a referral to my surgeon but MY dentist said to come in and have a look in case of infection. She looked at it, got cross at other dentist, took cap off, recleaned (other idiot had left decay in it so there was no way I would have been able to keep the tooth!) and then resealed it! She put a temporary cover on it incase the tooth died and I needed it out but so far so good! I lost a section of the temp cover about a month ago (3 months into my 6 months) which was simply replaced. She wants to give the tooth a good 6 months with temp cover before we make final decision on keeping or pulling the tooth. So far so good!!!!! Oh, and it was a bad break too... right down to past the gum when I initially broke it - they had to pull gum away to get the seal on - but they got it on!!!
Thanks MG - I was *horrified* when it happened...have since read of one lady who's got all sorts of bits of teeth falling off after chemo...but your story gives me hope that it's something that can be managed. It will be a good thing if it means I start going to the dentist regularly like I should.
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