I had a crown replaced seven years ago before we moved to Germany because the original was bugging me a little.  The one I had put on was worse than the original and I have suffered with sensitivity since then and decided that something finally had to be done about it when it moved while I was eating – very uncool.  I had it taken off, was fitted for a new porcelain crown and had a temporary put on last Monday.  The difference was immediate:  The temp crown felt great and the sensitivity was just gone.  I really didn’t get how crappy the old crown made me feel until the new temporary one was put on.  All was going great until the next Friday afternoon.  I was sitting in a customer meeting and coughed a little and out popped my composite crown.  HOLY KELLY CLARKSON!! The exposed nerve or whatever was going on reached down my jaw, all the way up to in front of my ear and squeezed.  I tread really, really hard to make it through the meeting.  I had to answer a question, air hit my exposed tooth and I had to excuse myself, post haste.  Nothing says classy and professional like losing a tooth during a meeting…

I went to a dentist by my office and they couldn’t or wouldn’t put the temp back on because the “didn’t want to alter the tooth bed and affect the fit of the permanent crown…”  Horseshit.  My dentist was closed for a 4-day weekend, but I got through to her on her emergency number and she met me at her office 25 minutes later.  She took care of it in 10 minutes, was REALLY nice about me calling on her day off and gave me some temporary cement is case it happens again before my permanent crown comes in and I can’t get a hold of her.