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Sheryl's avatar

@jchilders98 - I'm a retired dentist. Often root canals are not completed in 1 day because of the level of infection. If you take a massively infected tooth and complete the root canal in 1 day you end up with a patient in a lot of pain as the pressure of the pus builds up. You start the root canal on the first day and allow it to drain overnight, assessing on the second day whether or not it is ready to be closed up.

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Jeff Childers's avatar

Thanks, I'll update

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Barbara ( Portlander😵‍💫)'s avatar

Same day crowns are made everyday with 3d printing

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Barb's avatar

Actually it isn’t 3D printing but the use of a 3D cad cam and then a milling machine to mill the crowns. I am a dental assistant and we make permanent crowns in our office in a 1 1/2 hr appointment.

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Roger Beal's avatar

My dentist uses a 3D mapping wand - akin to a draftsman's CAD system - to make a topographical map of the stub needing a crown, and all adjoining teeth. He emails the data files to a lab in a nearby large city. The finished crown (or partial; this technique appliws to both) arrives by UPS a few days later. My wife and I have had five total crowns and partials done by this method, and every one has been a perfect fit right out of the box.

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MayBella82's avatar

My dentist had one in his office. I came back 3 hours later and it out it in.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Just had one done

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Haights's avatar

My husband is a dentist and he does crowns, everything in office, start to finish in two hours. 👍

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Sheryl's avatar

yep

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Dan Butler's avatar

A year or two ago, I had a crown that needed to be replaced with a new crown. My dentist removed the old crown and used a machine to fashion a new permanent crown while I waited. The whole process took less than 2 hours, as I recall. I suppose it was some type of special 3D printer made especially for dentists, like Barbara said.

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Carla's avatar

My dentist can make the crown in office in less than an hour with some kind of 3D printer/machine

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Jamison's avatar

Mine, too, and unfortunately, I’m going to be the recipient of this service next week.

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Jim Marlowe's avatar

My "like" was an empathy like. Not a "like" like. I'm not a sadist.

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Jamison's avatar

I understand! lol

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laura-ann Knox's avatar

Yeah, the CERAC machine. Amazing.

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JW's avatar

I've had several same day crowns that were made in the 3D machine and they have held up great over the years.

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Janelle Bugni's avatar

Cerac machine

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Cowgirl Dee's avatar

Yes, but is the patient unable to work between procedure and close up? Mine needed three days to drain and I didn’t miss an hour of work. Between the two visits.I think that is the point. He’s hiding from his ill deeds finally catching up to him.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

AMEN - I now call Biden "O'Biden" and not because he's of Irish descent - NOPE...because he's a EVIL, SELF-SERVING SYCOPHANT SEXUAL DEVIANT like his "running mate", Barry Boy!

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

Barry is talking in the earpiece. Remember the clip where he said he’d like to sit in his basement in his sweatpants and run things?

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Jim Marlowe's avatar

Who's talking in Barry's earpiece? Turtles all the way down . . .

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Sunnydaze's avatar

Exactly!!! Nice reference!

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

Good point.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Nope--don't read ANYTHING about O'Biden because he's a puppet - I knew that from the beginning. HE'S A HORRIBLE FARCE and a DEEP STAIN on our once great country's history.

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Roger Beal's avatar

You are sure Soetero is wearing pants ....

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

Actually I thought he was gay and he mentioned the sweatpants

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CMCM's avatar

He’s an embarrassment to all people of Irish heritage.

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Peter GL's avatar

Didn't he hide throughout the election period? What's an extra day?

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CMCM's avatar

Biden goes into hiding when news of his crimes comes out.

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Mantis's avatar

I can vouch for this not as a dentist but as a patient who had a terrible dentist

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RJ Rambler's avatar

😑😡

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SA's avatar

Oral health is directly connected to your biological health. Weston A Price discusses this in his writings. Maybe the bigger story is how healthy is Biden? He’s a faller and struggles with piecing simple thoughts together and now supposed root canal? Maybe he should visit a biological dentist.

Side note-I always thought he looked like he has dentures. Are root canals needed for people with dentures?

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Renee Sommers's avatar

I think his teeth are either crowns/implants or veneers.

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

To which body double are you referring?

The Jim Carey one? He has been taking some time off after his characteristic acting fall to amuse his fellow Bollywood actors and actresses. 🙄

His teeth have always been so fake looking, chicklets. Maybe a Canadian Dentist on his plan that he thought was so great.

So tiring!

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Sheryl's avatar

definitely

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Jonathan Murphy's avatar

I was of the mind that root canal’s are history having been replaced by dental implants. Is a root canal tooth really a dead tooth just awaiting an infection or abscess?

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Renee Sommers's avatar

I follow a dentist on Instagram, Dr Kelly Blodgett, https://instagram.com/blodgettdentalcare?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

He says root canals are one of the leading causes of mysterious illnesses due to the root being porous. They leach bacteria and parasitic infection back into the body. His case studies are really interesting.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Exactly. Never get a root canal. Instead, pull the tooth and get an implant. They will argue with you about it because they make a lot of money off root canals. And the root canals don't last very long. Then you have to start all over.

My buddy had a mouth full of bad teeth. Genetics. He had to fire his dentist because he insisted on replacing all his teeth with root canals. I told him the subclinical infections from all those root canals leeching into his body would degrade his immune system and he would probably get a degenerative disease as a result. He found a dentist that replaced all his teeth with implants and he is very happy.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

If you have the funds for implants - friends of mine have spend $10,000 on a mouthful of implants--I don't have that kind of change to do it. I'm thankful I still have all my own teeth--except for TWO molars (lower on the left side).

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Politico Phil's avatar

Yeah. I think it cost him about 20G

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

OMW--I hope he lives a good, long life to get his "money's worth"--LOL!

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Janet's avatar

Had an infected root canal taken out. 2 days. Not fun.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

I bet it’s not fun at all

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Janet's avatar

Plus cost an arm and a leg

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gustavi's avatar

Good to know. thanks for that.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Been there and done that myself.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Good info. Thank you for sharing.

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Diana's avatar

My father in his eighties had this problem it was a big problem and was in a lot of pain. Teeth he put into his bone had become infected. Dad didn’t want dentures he had a great smile and great hair bitch he lost in his eighties. Always lamented this greatly. .

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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

Quite right.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Thank you, Sheryl - I had one of those "quickie" root canals - and guess what...8 years later, I developed a horrible abscess and it had to be "re-canaled" - that was even worse than the FIRST canal! I still have that tooth though--remarkably. I hope I can keep it 'til my soul leaves this aging body--LOL!

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Fla Mom's avatar

I've had three on the same tooth. So far, so good, after #3.

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

Time to change dentists 🦷

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

I agree--I couldn't go through THREE canals on the same tooth. In fact my present dentist said if this canal'ed tooth festers again--it needs to be pulled. So...I accept his diagnosis.

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