Dental implants are excellent for replacing molarswhich are located in the back of your mouth. Your molars are CRUCIAL to your long term dental health. Even missing just one molar will set you up for problems to come. Multiple missing molars create dental disasters that can become costly to reconstruct.
Molars with root canals are often lost. Sometimes you just lose root canal tooth because it fractures; splitting down the middle. Other times, the crown of a root canal tooth, breaks off, leaving the root only. The root often does not have enough left to make a new crown so a dental implant to replace the molar is best.
Always replace missing molars with dental implants as soon as you lose one either on the same day of extraction or within 2-6 months after the loss.
Here is a female patient from Glendale that I treated in Burbank:
Here is that same tooth a few months later after the crown broke off.
Finished dental implant!
Ramsey A. Amin, D.D.S.
Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Implantology /Implant Dentistry
Fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry
Burbank, California
http://www.burbankdentalimplants.com
Wow...grat result and perfect placement Dr. Amin!
Posted by: Peter | August 26, 2011 at 11:08 AM
Hi Jack,
I think Carl's comments above say it all. This patient had a similar situation with this being her second root canal and crown.
Root canals are fantastic when the tooth is savable. In this case the endodontist noted a crack in the root of the tooth which doesn't have a great prognosis.
If a tooth has enough "tooth" left to put a nice crown on, then that is the preferred treatment!
Ramsey A. Amin, D.D.S.
Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Implantology /Implant Dentistry
Fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry
Burbank, California
Posted by: Ramsey Amin DDS | July 20, 2011 at 07:45 AM
I had a crown and a root canal done twice only to have to have the tooth extracted after only 2 years. My tooth was level with my gums and my first dentist said he could save it with a post and root canal. That one lasted about 1 year.
My next dentist had me redo the root canal with a specialist then made a new crown and post. I wish I would have gone with my gut when I saw the tooth so broken.
The (not so) funny thing is that my original dentist saw me first and said that he would not try to save it and that I needed and implant. I wish I would have listen and saved $5500 of work on a tooth that is now gone!
More dentist should be like Dr. Amin and not try to save teeth that aren't savable!
Posted by: Carl Williams | July 17, 2011 at 04:45 PM
Why not a post and a new crown? It's really not worth it?
Posted by: Jack Joe | July 17, 2011 at 05:03 AM