A normal central incisor is 11 mm. Take a pic with a perio probe.
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That's the thing...why can't they see they have shorter, broken teeth? I just don't get it. My RDH asks about it, I talk about it and they just sit and stare. If I get the idea they are not concerned I move on. I'd love a progressive slideshow of how wear affects just the teeth...something they can see. I got asked three times today how long I thought their teeth would last. How am I suppose to know that?I guess I should care less.
Deb Shoemaker, DMD--Just because someone has the signs of occlusal issues, doesn't mean they have a concern about it, and we get so busy diagnosing that we forget that often we are offering solutions to problems they don't feel, or own. If someone walks up to me and tells me they have a solution for grey hair, and I don't really mind my grey hair, I ain't going to be too interested in their solution!The only things they are going to buy are solutions to THEIR PROBLEMS! Your concerns about their bite morphology isn't one of their problems!We have all been there and done that! It gets better!RickOn Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Deb Shoemaker <drdebshoemaker@att.net> wrote:
--I had one of those days where I decided that I know why only a select group of dentists ever continue their education to be the best they can be. It's exhausting. If I said one more time today that teeth look like M & M's or that there are three ways people lose their teeth... I actually got tired of hearing myself. Why did everyone look like they took a jigsaw ( or insert other tool here) to their teeth? Why did they all have 5mm tall incisors? I decided if I never found ACE and started taking all these "silly" classes that I could just drill and fill. Instead, I'm educating patients and they are looking at me dumbfounded. I'm repeating all these silly metaphors. I'm worried about whether they breathe. I want to go back to being "normal." I don't want to stress how to help them anymore. I want my blinders back.I feel a wine night coming on.Deb(No, I didn't fall off the face of the Earth for those wondering...I've been busy talking about the damn bite.)
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