On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:38:15 GMT, Stefano Tirelli
<oppenheimer@bomb.ne> wrote:

>
>Hello, I am 26 and I had no problems to my teeth to date.
>A few days ago I had some moderate pain around my molar, I was worried
>and by self-inspection I noticed a small dark hole (about 0.5 mm
>diameter) on the outside of a molar. Worried by a cavity, I ran to the
>dentist (new dentist, for above reasons), who dimissed me quickly saying
>that it was too small do be considered cavity (caries) and it needed to
>be monitored and eventually cured if developin, but not now. And pain
>was probably due to the wisdom teeth which is coming out now (true).
>With my inistence, he said we could get rid of it now with a filling,
>even it wasn't necessary.
>
>Now, to my knowledge leaving bacteria in my mouth is not good at any
>time, at any size. My question is if I should trust this dentist or not,
>even if it was advised by a person I care about a lot. He did and x-ray
>to see if there was an intra dental cavity, but was very fast overall.
>It must be noted though that my appointmend was squeezed in the morning
>schedule cause I was worried, so he probably didn't have much time.
>Though to my knowledge it sound strange that a dentist advises to leave
>as is a potential receptacle for bacteria.
>
>I don't know much about dentist so, what are your opinion on this?
>I know there are far worse problems, but I'd really like to keep my
>teeth healthy..

Sounds like when my dentist says that's one we are going to watch. I
like that because I know that he's not just trying to get money out of
me for unnecessary procedures.  Of course they assume that you are
going to go back for a check up in 6 months or so and not leave it
until you have major problems.

But I'm not a dentist and would be pleased to hear if the dentists
agree with me.

Ann

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