What hit you in the mouth?

A Drive line.

For those of you not familiar with a drive line is, I will tell you.

When you are driving down the street and pass a really tall pickup truck, 

its that long cylindrical thingy that is spinning like crazy under the truck.

It is big, heavy, and made of metal. 

And here is what happens when you are laying underneath it

and it decides to fall.

Two very broken front teeth.

Not Good.

That black on the edge of one of the teeth is

actually drive line grease (yum).

BUT....... if you are lucky enough to have a dentist handy, who

knows how to deal with drive line tooth fractures, you could end up

looking like this.

The teeth will always be a tad weaker then they were before being

crushed by the spinny thingy but they will do much better then 

snaggle toothed alternative.

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I, or my child, just cracked my front tooth. Now What?!

Okay so you, your child, your mom, your brother, etc. etc. just fell face first into something, over something, under something, etc. etc. and broke the corner of your/their front tooth off.

What do you do now?

Well, that depends. Lets break this down into 3 simplified categories.

The nerve of a tooth is in the middle of the tooth.

#1 If you just broke off a small corner of the tooth and it didn't reach the nerve then a simple filling is probably all you would need.

#2 If you broke off a larger corner but still didn't reach the nerve then you more then likely would need a crown.

#3 If you broke your tooth so severely that you got down into the nerve then you will need a root canal AND a crown.

And although all of this may be a traumatic experience don't worry. Your cracked and broken smile can be completely repaired and have you back to being the model you know you were born to be.

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