Larissa’s Birthday.

People November 13th, 2006

Happy Birthday to Larissa. We celebrated at an awesome Japanese restaurant (Solo Sushi-ya) in Newmarket.



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  • Dr. Mommy, D.D.S.

    yum! how long is the girl’s ortho treatment going to take?

  • Ameloblast

    1.5 years she says. I’m the first to admit that I know practically nothing about ortho and got blisters so bad during our wire bending labs in school that I still feel where they (the blisters) used to be whenever I look at ortho wire.

    She’s slowly getting used to the brackets and figuring out how to minimize food trapping around them.

    The whole process is part of a long-term plan to reverse the effects of lots of Romanian dentistry (I’m not Romanian, she is).

  • Dr. Mommy, D.D.S.

    i had braces in dental school, my treatment lasted a year. my lips swelled up so bad the first week i looked like angelina jolie. i found that putting kaopectate on the sores was very helpful (also really great for recurrent apthous ulcers and herpetic gingivostomatitis). it’s much more soothing to the tissues and is not acidic like the OTC benzocaine gels that are out there.

    i hate to say it, but overseas dentistry is a debaucle. i see so many RCTs with short or non-existent fills, humongous rough composites with tons of microleakage, overcontoured crowns that cause the gingiva to look like ground beef, the list goes on. the worst was this gentleman i saw from hong kong that had these awful RCTs with clearly visible pathology. both of these teeth needed crowns but needed retreatment first. i gave him the referral to my specialist, but he didn’t want to do anything insurance wouldn’t cover and he disappeared when he maxed out. he then returned to finish his restorative work when it rolled over, and when i looked at him i noticed that the two teeth had brand new (and bulky ill-fitting) PFM crowns. he got them done in hong kong, where it’s “so much cheaper”. when i asked him, “oh, so the retreated the root canals, too, right?” and he was like, “um, no, i didn’t know.” first of all, i gave him the referral and had a half-hour long conversation with him about it, and second of all, didn’t any of the dentists there pick up that there was a problem? ick!

    i heard that sargenti paste is used quite a bit in europe. my specialist said that is probably why so many of those crappy root canals hold up for so long, the formaldehyde in the canals keeps the bugs out. but they are a beast to retreat and it’s very dangerous to use.

  • Ameloblast

    Thanks for the kaopectate tip!

    Persistent lesions associated with root fillings containing paraformaldehyde might be apical scars or foreign body reactions (especially in asymptomatic cases) and may just need to be monitored.

    The stuff is a great disinfectant, but unfortunately as you know, can cause some periapical issues.

    Hopefully in the near future, we’ll finally find a root filling material that is strongly antibacterial and has minimal tissue toxicity. We’re working hard on that topic. So far chlorhexidine-containing material is our current favourite. I’ve worked with a zeolite-containing glass ionomer. The calcium hydroxide containing sealers never really worked out as well as we hoped.

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