Ouch..that's got to hurt...

Unfortunately when you have a practice with a lot of elderly patients you occassionally get the phone call telling you that one of your patient's took a fall and stopped that fall with their face...
In any case this wonderful woman was just in last week for a routine procedure and yesterday she called to say she took a fall yesterday and needed to see me right away...
I told her to come on down and here she is..fresh out of the emergency room...

Clinical exam shows that although none of the teeth are unusually loose there are some chips evident on the two central incisors...take a look...


Now we have a machine to tell us the vitality of the nerves that are in the teeth and the test revealed that all of the teeth except for these two respond normally..
these two teeth show no response to an electrical stimulus...
so stay tuned...she is returning next week and we will re-examine her and see if
she will need to have work done on these teeth....