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a kennedy

(34,502 posts)
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:11 PM Wednesday

Ok, got a dentist appointment for two crowns tomorrow. They just happen to be my two front upper teeth!!!!

and damn. They’re both pretty huge, small jaws big teeth. Wore braces for, am even embarrassed to say for 5 years…..am now getting the two most prominent teeth crowned. Wish me luck.

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Ok, got a dentist appointment for two crowns tomorrow. They just happen to be my two front upper teeth!!!! (Original Post) a kennedy Wednesday OP
My sympathy montanacowboy Wednesday #1
Wishing you a competent, caring dental team and an easy, succeessful niyad Wednesday #2
Good luck! You'll be good... LuckyCharms Wednesday #3
It just takes two hours!!! Always took 2 weeks for sure.... Now??? 2 hours. a kennedy Wednesday #4
There's probably a lab onsite... LuckyCharms Wednesday #5
and imagine my two front, the most powerful of all teeth, front teeth, getting crowns. a kennedy Wednesday #6
I had those same two teeth crowned 10 Turtle Day Thursday #7
Hope it goes okay. I bet it will. Dem2theMax Thursday #8

LuckyCharms

(20,664 posts)
3. Good luck! You'll be good...
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:30 PM
Wednesday

I knocked out the tooth next to the two big ones in the top front. Had to get it crowned.

It went very smoothly...easier than my molar crowns.

a kennedy

(34,502 posts)
4. It just takes two hours!!! Always took 2 weeks for sure.... Now??? 2 hours.
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:53 PM
Wednesday

Ok…..I get it, a computer does it. Don’t know how…they just do it, tomorrow I’ll find out. I do have a before photo… I think my phone. Not sure. I’ll let ya know. ☘️

LuckyCharms

(20,664 posts)
5. There's probably a lab onsite...
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:57 PM
Wednesday

They'll take an impression and pictures, drill the remaining tooth down to a nub, and then you'll wait in the chair a bit while they make the crown.

Better than the old days when you had to wear that stupid temporary crown for a few weeks!

My temporary crowns always fell out.

a kennedy

(34,502 posts)
6. and imagine my two front, the most powerful of all teeth, front teeth, getting crowns.
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 11:24 PM
Wednesday

Can’t explaine the two front teeth, MY TWO FRONT TEETH. am soooooooo nervous. Well let ya know. ☘️

10 Turtle Day

(901 posts)
7. I had those same two teeth crowned
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 06:42 AM
Thursday

They were starting to chip tiny chunks off the biting edges until one became noticeably chipped. Not a great look when that’s the first thing people see. My dentist said this chipping would continue because they’d gotten brittle with age so I bit the proverbially bullet and got them crowned. For me, it was just as Lucky Charms described above. It’s a lot of grinding to get them down to nubs but the end result is worth it. Good luck!!

Dem2theMax

(10,996 posts)
8. Hope it goes okay. I bet it will.
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 12:33 PM
Thursday

I just had my permanent crowns put on my two upper front teeth last week. I put it off for years because I thought it would look horrible. Wish I had done it the first time my dentist told me I needed it. You cannot tell the difference between what used to be there and what's there now!

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