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Hello fellow bruxxer. Ultimate goal would be to stop further damage, which means finding a way to stop grinding your teeth. Anything else is just varying speeds of draining water out of a sinking ship.
If you’re up for some amateur (non!!!)-medical analysis: How’s your posture? Any forward head tilt or sloping shoulders? Much tension in your upper back/neck/jaw/temple areas? How about your tongue? How’s your jaw alignment? Is your grinding related to stress? If so, have you ID’d your strongest triggers for bruxing during the day, and at night?
I don’t understand why it’s so difficult to find good dentists, even paying for private care. I cut all relation with my previous dentist after his attitude became toxic (he was clearly burning out badly) and he may have damaged my front tooth, but now I’m sans dentist and paying for private is like a £80-£130 craps shoot where I don’t win any money, I just get what I paid for.
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Firstly I need a new dentist, as I'm not particularly liking my current one.
Second, seems I grind my teeth, I have a mouthguard, but haven't been particularly good about using it on a regular basis since getting it pre covid.
I've got a rear molar, which has cracked and my dentist has just filled it (the molar is currently more filling than tooth at this point) and my options are:
don't wear mouthguard, and maybe have the new filling replaced every 6 mths or so.
wear mouthguard, and maybe not have new filling replaced so regularly
get a denture/cap? on molar for £200 approx
get an implant for £2,000 (I laughed out loud at the jump in costs, and dentist started to act as if I was an enraged customer who was going to start effing and jeffing and she had to talk me down from the precipice)
So question which of these options is best for my tooth in the long run.