Dental crowns: risks and side effects

Potential dangers of crowned teeth

Pain, inflammation, pulp death, gum disease, tooth decay, tooth and jaw misalignment, extraction – all of this can be the result of a crowning.

An artificial crown is a close-fitting one "cap", which is put over a tooth for cosmetic reasons or (supposedly) to strengthen the tooth. In real life, however, the opposite is rather the case (as dentist Dr. Jerome comments: "As we often find, a tooth with a crown is very weak").

Dentist Dr. Graeme Munro-Hall writes in "Toxic Dentistry Exposed": "Crowning should really be the last choice, not the first."

Since experience has shown that dentists are unlikely to mention possible risks associated with the various operations performed on teeth, the following is a (not necessarily complete) list of potential risks and side effects of using an artificial tooth crown.

General risks of artificial crowns

In order to understand the general risks of using a crown (which range from gum and tooth nerve irritation to pulp death and subsequent tooth extraction) – the i. Ü. in many cases also apply to other dental treatments – one should refer to the important overview page such as drilling & Filling teeth can cause irreversible damage, which explains the reasons why crowning often means the end of a tooth.

This is e.g. For example, if the dentist drills too quickly and / or removes too much healthy tooth substance while preparing a tooth for a crown: the tooth is overheated, the pulp is damaged, inflamed and / or dies – the main reason for later Tooth extraction is pulpatod after crowning!

Risks of artificial crowns of a material-specific kind

nickel

Crowns often have a nickel base – a highly toxic metal.

Toxic-allergenic metals in metal crowns

The use of metal alloys in crowns causes metal ions to accumulate in the neighboring gums (which are visible as dark lines).

All-ceramic crown aluminum

If all-ceramic crowns are not fired at a sufficiently high temperature or long enough, they can give off aluminum.

Risks of crowns due to technical errors / incompetence of the dentist and / or dental technician

The following list is an extension of the general risks associated with crowning, as described in How to drill & Filling teeth (irreversible) can cause damage.

Crowns are often placed on amalgam fillings

Loud "Toxic Dentistry Exposed" the amalgam hidden under a crown is not to be discovered, while the toxic mercury contained in it is further transported along the nerve pathways into the brain. [1]

Inaccurately fitted crowns: miss bite (malocclusion), jaw and other pain, trapped food residues and others

In general, a poorly fitting crown can cause discomfort or even severe permanent pain (including in the neck and back) as well as trigger migraines, tinnitus, difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep and craniomandibular dysfunction (CMD) (in the United States, $ 100,000 in a patient’s dental malpractice lawsuit USD awarded damages that developed CMD problems after crowning).

The negative impact that a disturbing object in the mouth can have on daily life is shown, for example, by the case of the Frenchman, who was driven to the point of suicide caused by the constant pain and insomnia caused by an excessive crown. His dentist – instead of admitting and correcting his mistake – also accused him of somatizing mental problems.

Generally speaking, a crown that is too high initially leads to pain, then the tooth loosens, bacterial inflammation occurs – and finally the tooth falls out.

Crown margins: possible technical errors

The area where the crown margin meets the gums and the tooth stump is the sticking point.

If the crown margin is too long (one "popular" Technique apparently is to hide the crown margin in the gums), which is synonymous with chronic gum irritation, which in turn can cause bleeding, gum loss or overgrowth, and deepening of the gingival sulcus (the narrow margin between the gums and tooth), so it can comes to form a gum pocket; the tooth may begin to move in its alveolus.

If the crown margin is too short, a little dentin is probably exposed, which leads to pain or sensitivity to cold, warm, sour and sweet stimuli. Food residues can get caught in the gap created in this way and create the ground for caries. (However, an experience report says that new gums had grown over the gap within a few days – the body resorted to self-help.)

If the crown margin protrudes, it can collect under this or in the gingival sulcus plaque – possible consequences are pain and possibly caries.

Crown edge caries (new caries), which is frequently encountered, not only eats into the tooth stump located under the crown, but can also lead to inflammation of the gums.

Crowns: other technical problems

If the crown wall lacks a slight curvature, a gum pocket can form with subsequent inflammation and gum loss.

1 Many details on toxic amalgam under Dental fillings.

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