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Subject: Re: Dr Rick! - Cavity on upper left lateral

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Date Posted: 13:48:15 08/14/04 Sat
In reply to: May 's message, "Dr Rick! - Cavity on upper left lateral" on 13:35:36 08/14/04 Sat

This isnt a big deal at all.

I recently had a pt with a similar situation. Her two front teeth were severley overlapped and once the teeth were straightened we found a cavity in between. THe tooth was filled very easily and conservatively. Has she not been in braces and the cavity was filled before the overlapping of the teeth were corrected then much more of her tooth would have had to have been removed. It worked out great. SOunds like you have a very similar situation.

>I just came back from my latest adjustment. I started
>noticing 2 adjustments ago that there was this brown
>stain on my upper left lateral tooth. Today, I brought
>it up again to my orthodontist and he said, it's
>definitely a cavity after trying to floss it and use a
>saw-like device. He put a metal coil between the upper
>left central and upper left lateral tooth to create
>space so that I could go to the dentist and get it
>fixed.
>What exactly is the dentist going to do? The cavity is
>along the edge closes to the upper left central tooth,
>but it appears that there is crack or indentation
>where the cavity is nestled in. My ortho talked about
>shaping the tooth to get rid of the cavity. I'm lucky
>that my ortho and dentist have adjoining office space
>so my ortho said he would remove my archwire prior to
>my dental appointment and replace my archwire after
>I'm done.
>Have you ever had a similar experience with a patient,
>what did you do? Should I worry? I wasn't a habitual
>flosser prior to getting braces and now it's biting me
>in the a$$:(

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Re: Dr Rick! - Cavity on upper left lateral	California	12:31:18 08/15/04 Sun
Re: Dr Rick! - Cavity on upper left lateral -- drrick, 13:44:03 08/15/04 Sun Interesting (NT) -- California, 18:48:36 08/15/04 Sun