What's uP with your tooth?

 

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Yeah, seriously. How could someone freak out about their health when they've already had a major life threatening issue and their doctor gives them some half ass blow off about something else that could potentially be life threatening?

 

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When I was 18 months old I fell down some stairs and I lost my baby tooth (right 23), well it hit in a way that my adult tooth came in literally bent over. The root is completely healthy and the gums extended higher up to secure it to compensate, they're not too sure why the root is still alive and how it is still attached to the tooth but I see some root guy on Thursday. I guess I could take a picture of it hmm..
http://i43.tinypic.com/sxizc5.jpg

 

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thats awesome, I wouldn't have it fixed unless it causes you trouble.

 

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I hardly call a 6 month follow-up with a new CT "some half ass blow off". Surgeons aren't known for their people skills but patients aren't known for accepting prudent medical care and well-justified conservative treatment. Only pkhere know's what was actually said so if we're just going to speculate and form an angry mob, I'm going to go the contrarian route.

If we're going to assume what happened I'm going to assume the surgeon (assuming it is a surgeon and not an interventional cardiologist) saw a small, non-spiculated, non-calcified mass on CT. He then checked with the radiologist's read to confirm that nothing about the mass' appearance was suspicious for a primary or metastatic cancer. With a insignificant radiographic finding, asymptomatic patient, and no history of concerning risk factors he moved on to caring for the patient's actual medical problems but made sure a 6 month follow-up to monitor the mass was secured.

The patient's real medical concern is resolved and at follow-up the negligible and non-concerning lesion is mentioned as an FYI. Patient's loud-mouthed wife flips out and goes off the wall before any detailed discussion can occur and the surgeon makes a hasty escape. Wife now wants to drag the patient around demanding unnecessary tests and procedures chasing a benign incidental finding and subjecting him to the constant risk of serious complications from radiographic imaging and biopsies.

Assuming is fun!

 

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Mega self-conscious about it It doesn't hurt or anything and the dentist said it isn't messing with my top teeth, so I could leave it in if I wanted to. It's also really sharp!

But it is ugly, and it is at the very front middle of my mouth so it is exposed very easily. If the root guy gives the OK I am gonna have it grinded down and crowned

 

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Lemme tell you something. It's called "practicing" medicine for a reason.

More often than not, you give them your symptoms and they start going down the line of possibilities. It's not too often that doctors have lightbulb moments and know what is going on right away.

when my daughter was a baby, her first pediatrician was a joke, she kept getting thinner and thinner as the weeks went by, even though she was eating. she was throwing up a lot, but the doctor assumed I was exagerating and it was just spitup.

After the first few months and the doctor kept saying she was fine, and *I* knew she wasn't... I took her to another doctor. I think she was around 5 months old, she was big enough that I was carrying her on my hip so she was at least sitting up on her own. I walked through the door into the exam room and before introducing himself, he said "she's allergic to milk." he took a blood test to be sure, and the following week we found out Milk, Soy, Corn and Peanut (possibly more, but he didn't want to do skin tests on that small of a child).

I guess I've been blessed with a few really great doctors over the years, even the ones that couldn't just come up with it out of the blue like that knew how to research, do testing, and come to a reasonable conclusion.

With the exception of my PCP when I had cancer (before diagnosis) who suggested that my symptoms were all in my head, and the almost year it took for a myriad of docs to diagnose my daughter's Ackerman's Syndrome (which was the "rare" I was speaking of.)

 

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Ugh... sorry to hear you've gone through all that.