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Question:
Crown filed down too much: I had a crown placed on a molar after a root canal about six months ago. Immediately after the crown placement I was still having some pain.

The dentist filed the tooth down to help ease my bite. The pain has stopped as I had an a epioectomy done, but as consequence of the dentist filing my crown down my bite is off.

I bite the inside of my mouth and lip and I have difficult time enunciating certain words. One dentist I went to is recommending that I get braces before I get the crown redone in order to stabilize my bite.

Are braces really necessary since this problem did not exist before this crown was filed down too far? The crown was perfect before it was filed down. ...Visitor from Washington DC

Answer:
Get a consult or two with a Prosthodontist with 15+ years experience. A prosthodontist should be able to do what is needed to get your bite back to the way it was before the treatments started, without ortho treatment (which doesn't seem to make sense).

There likely was an opposing tooth bite characteristic that wasn't replicated with the new crown. Crown fabrication and overall bite management is within the specialty areas of a Prosthodontist.

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