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Re: Dental Work...

Author: bob49t
Date: 2004-03-24 06:18

Your dentist will - more than likely - do all the prep work at the same time.
He/she will take an initial impressions before any work starts for a few good reasons:-

a) to make your temp crowns while the prosthetic ones are being made.
b) to give the lab information in order that they can emulate/alter the shape of the original.
c) to assess the occlusion (how your upper and lower teeth relate to one another.

If your dentist has an interest in your chosen hobby/profession he/she will be only too willing to hear and discuss any misgivings you have about the "change of shape/ embouchure interface"

If say, you normally traumatise your lower lip whilst playing due to sharp or irregular incisors, tell your dentist this and the incisal edges can be altered to suit.

Speaking as a practicing dentist (I'll get it right one day), I've not found that crowning has had any detrimental effect on playing in the long run. Small changes occur yes, but as a previous poster says, nothing usually to which you can't easily accommodate. Other examples would be the provision of orthodontic appliances - the player commonly adapts to these very quickly with no real problem.

BobT

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