Ahg... I have a confirmed cracked tooth.. now what??

[Paul Jr]

I appreciate evenyone taking the time to give your suggestions and opinions regarding my concern. I decided to go through with my cert dives, and thankfully, with no (apparent) issues at this time from the dive. The tooth didnt cause any "noticable" problems but I will be getting it fixed as I feel the issue will more likely worsen (dive or no diving) if left as is. The certfifiation dives were great and lot of fun, and of course I learned what I could in the limited amount of time! I hope to venture more with diving in the near future. Just as a note, I knew diving with my tooth conditition that I was taking somewhat of a risk. The dives were kept rather shallow due to the therma cline and lower visability (didnt dive any deeper than 30' I believe). So it is possible there could have been issues had I dove any deeper.. but, hopefully I will never find out -

Thanks again. jR

 

[scubadiver888]

Glad things worked out for you. You definitely want to have it looked at. The sooner a dentist can work on it the more options they will have to fixing it. You definitely don't want to wait for it to hurt (total of 8 hours in the chair for the first tooth I had trouble with). Subsequent teeth problems were solved with much better results and usually in an hour.

 

[pickens_46929]

The dives were kept rather shallow due to the therma cline
Thanks again. jR

OMG :shocked2:

I didn't even think of how cold water might do something... owww

Glad things worked out..