QUOTE(Capt olympic @ May 20 2018, 09:11 AM)
Dr Pang from Pang Dentist at Jalan Sri Permaisuri. Walking distance from Lrt Salak Selatan, 7eleven and Jpj Bdr Sri Permaisuri.
Root canal - RM 800 (2-3 trips).
6 months later, you will need to come back to his office to do crown (800-1300 depend on crown material & 2 trips). X-ray included.
I like his way of root canal. He monitored my case for at least 6 months, before he suggests me to crown my tooth. Some places just a gap of 2 weeks.
The purpose is to make sure that tooth is properly managed and infection subsidied.
I learned a lot from my dentist. If distance or other issues, probably you try to ask other dentist if he/she is following this procedure. A gap to see if that tooth is properly managed. Just my 2cent.
Some dentist will just do root canal and 2 weeks later, they will fix in the crown. All settle in 1 month. Fast treatment and closed case. My colleague had spent total 2k (1k root canal, 1k crown) but at the end, his dentist decided to extract because tooth condition is bad. He wasted his 2k and pains along it. Twice he went to that same dentist, and resulted the same outcome.
Happy exploring.
Well you can't just generalise based on your colleague case alone. Most likely the problem is due to inadequately-done root canal treatment rather than placing the crown right after root canal.
Delaying placement of crown for too long especially over PREMOLARS & MOLARS will predispose your tooth from being cracked/fractured even upon routine chewing as the nature of root canal treated tooth are significantly fragile + there's no feedback mechanism as the nerve was entirely removed. Your tooth without nerve are not able to send feedback to brain whether the food is hard or otherwise.
Furthermore those with parafunctional habits like clencher or bruxer will exert strong biting force unconsciously / during sleep, thus rendering root-treated tooth prone to fracture.