Medically reviewed by Edmund Khoo, DDS A chipped tooth is a small fracture (break) to your tooth. About 80% of people over 40 ...

Then, when these kept breaking, he suggested crowns - which ... not only tormenting pain, but the loss of job opportunities, ostracisation, and disease. The cost of dental care is beyond the ...

DINA GIESLER: The best way to describe a crown is it's a cap that we put on a tooth, and it's probably the best procedure we have to save a tooth. A patient needs a crown when the tooth has been ...

“Biting into one of these hard or sticky candies can break a tooth and cause severe tooth pain.” Sucking on hard ... a piece of filling or pull off a crown, and if it is very hard, it can ...

It is dentists who are feeling the pain. A wave of economic sanctions ... a rare earth metal that is an essential ingredient for making dental crowns, causing prices to skyrocket.

By Dr. Robert Kelly, D.M.D., The Mountain Times So every now and then I encounter a brave and unique soul who requests that I do a major dental procedure like a filling or crown with no anesthesia.