What does it mean when your gum is coming off your tooth

What does it mean when your gum is coming off your tooth

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Gums that pull away from the teeth can be a sign of Periodontal disease or gum disease. ChaCha

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What does it mean when your tongue is always coated white?

Q: My tongue is always white on top, but it kinda looks similar to dry skin, as if i could scrape it off with my teeth, but it doesn’t come off. It’s also spotted in the back. When I was little my mom used to look at the back of my tongue to see if I was sick. I’m perfectly fine, though, yet my tongue is still white. I always wake up ridiculously thirsty and with bad morning breath too. I feel like if I don’t chew gum constantly it comes back. So what’s up with this annoying issue?

A: Have you gone to a dentist?? It could be candidiasis (yeast) or xerostomia (dry mouth) or many other things. Ether way I would see a doctor.

Dentist did a shotty job and refuses to fix…medical malpractice?

Q: To make a long story short so I can get to the main details of this situation, I had my teeth prepped for veneers near the first of October and wore temporary veneers until Nov 5th, might I add these temporary veneers looked amazing and I was told my permanents would look like this. Nov 5th is when I had my permanent veneers placed. My gums were beat to crap and looked horrible, as did the veneers. They looked NOTHING like the Halle Berry picture we sent to the lab tech. I went back on Nov 6th, the very next morning, and complained about how horrible they looked…I was told they would do whatever it takes to make me happy. This has been the famous line along this journey. They set me up for another appointment, today, Nov 11th.I went into the office today to tell the dentist, once again, that to make me happy I needed these veneers, all 8 of them, REDONE. I wanted them redone to look exacty like the temporary veneers I had on before, the ones that I was falsely told my permanents would look like. He said he couldn’t take these off today because my gums still look like crap and need more time to heal, he said once they heal he can start doing things. He said he will do whatever it takes to make me happy, that’s his main goal. He called the lab tech guy who makes the veneers and had him come and see my face and talk to me. All of this sounded great, my mother came back into the office with me to tell the dentist how shotty his work had been and we both really felt this dentist was going to do everything in his power to get me the new set of veneers. Well the lab tech guy saw all the faults in his and the dentists work and said “I will definitely make you a new set, let me discuss it with your dentist and see if he is willing” okay, so I already told my dentist “the only way I will be happy is if you REPLACE THIS ENTIRE SET OF VENEERS WITH NEW ONES, not try and contour these” his response “I will do whatever it takes to make you happy!”Well after the lab tech guy and the dentist had their discussion my dentist and his assistant come back in and lower my chair back and he says “I am going to do something to fix things temporarily so you can feel comfortable to go back into work and in the public” (Mind you I have been out of work for the past week and a half due to his shotty work) He started grinding away at the permanent veneers that are on my teeth (I thought this wasn’t good to do, is it?) and it hurt very bad making me shiver non-stop, killing my nerves. He ground my teeth off without even asking my permission by the way. I looked in the mirror and wasn’t very happy but decided it’d do for the mean time while I wait for my new set. I said “this will do for now until the new ones are made”…the my dentist got up and left the room. Then the assistant rinsed my mouth up and started cleaning everything up.Oddly, I never got to see the lab tech nor the dentist again and said to the assistant, where did they go? She said “oh you won’t see them again today” I said “whats the conclusion, no one ever told me?” and she said “he’s not replacing them, that’s it…we want you to keep these that’s why we just reshaped them” and I said “WHAT, he SAID he would DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO MAKE ME HAPPY and he KNOWS the new set is what he left me believing!” My mother couldn’t believe it either, she stood up and spoke for me as well. The assistant told me to SHUT MY MOUTH and not speak like that in their office, there were other clients. I asked for a refund to have another dentist finish his faulty work (not to mention he BROKE one of my veneers when putting it on and still hasn’t rescheduled me to have it remade) and she said “YOU ARE NOT GETTING A REFUND AND YOU ARE NOT GETTING NEW VENEERS!” I cannot believe my dentist left the room and left his assistant to do “the dirty work” for him. How cowardly!I was told to leave the office and they came and talked to me outside because I was crying and they said I was disrupting their office. The assistant kept saying they decided they would just grind away from what I had and reshape them to my liking but I hate my canine and bicuspids, they are too small and they can’t add to the tooth structure when they keep taking away from it. She said they will not change the veneers because they think in their medical opinions that the teeth look too nice, but I am the one that paid 7,000 dollars for these teeth..not them. Do I sound like I have a medical malpractice case? My dentist lied to me, right to my face. My mother was there as a witness and every time I have to go back into that office I will indefinitely make sure I have someone there as a witness, maybe even bring a video recorder or at least a tape recorder just incase I need documented proof in court later on down the road. Also I paid with Care Credit, which is a health loan company. Do you think the loan can be halted while this is being settled?I need SERIOUS help, please. Serious advice only.J

A: Don’t get a lawyer yet. Call the dental society in your area. THey usually have a grievance procedure that can be initiated if he is a member of the society. It is usually a county society. If he is not a member, call the licensing board usually the department of consumer affairs and find out how to file a complaint. You will probably get quicker results if the licensing agency gets on his case. Malpractice is one thing but a call from the board is another and carries a lot of weight. You can always get lawyer but what you want is your teeth fixed, right? Once you lose trust in the dentist you have the right to a refund so you can see another dentist if it is determined the case went poorly. You need to tell the society or the board you have lost trust in the original dentist.I still think you need to call Care Credit and alert them. I use them in our office and am going to call them to see what their policy is.Its a shame you are going through this.

Dentist did a shotty job on my veneers, refuses to fix…medical malpractice?

Q: To make a long story short so I can get to the main details of this situation, I had my teeth prepped for veneers near the first of October and wore temporary veneers until Nov 5th, might I add these temporary veneers looked amazing and I was told my permanents would look like this. Nov 5th is when I had my permanent veneers placed. My gums were beat to crap and looked horrible, as did the veneers. They looked NOTHING like the Halle Berry picture we sent to the lab tech. I went back on Nov 6th, the very next morning, and complained about how horrible they looked…I was told they would do whatever it takes to make me happy. This has been the famous line along this journey. They set me up for another appointment, today, Nov 11th.I went into the office today to tell the dentist, once again, that to make me happy I needed these veneers, all 8 of them, REDONE. I wanted them redone to look exacty like the temporary veneers I had on before, the ones that I was falsely told my permanents would look like. He said he couldn’t take these off today because my gums still look like crap and need more time to heal, he said once they heal he can start doing things. He said he will do whatever it takes to make me happy, that’s his main goal. He called the lab tech guy who makes the veneers and had him come and see my face and talk to me. All of this sounded great, my mother came back into the office with me to tell the dentist how shotty his work had been and we both really felt this dentist was going to do everything in his power to get me the new set of veneers. Well the lab tech guy saw all the faults in his and the dentists work and said “I will definitely make you a new set, let me discuss it with your dentist and see if he is willing” okay, so I already told my dentist “the only way I will be happy is if you REPLACE THIS ENTIRE SET OF VENEERS WITH NEW ONES, not try and contour these” his response “I will do whatever it takes to make you happy!”Well after the lab tech guy and the dentist had their discussion my dentist and his assistant come back in and lower my chair back and he says “I am going to do something to fix things temporarily so you can feel comfortable to go back into work and in the public” (Mind you I have been out of work for the past week and a half due to his shotty work) He started grinding away at the permanent veneers that are on my teeth (I thought this wasn’t good to do, is it?) and it hurt very bad making me shiver non-stop, killing my nerves. He ground my teeth off without even asking my permission by the way. I looked in the mirror and wasn’t very happy but decided it’d do for the mean time while I wait for my new set. I said “this will do for now until the new ones are made”…the my dentist got up and left the room. Then the assistant rinsed my mouth up and started cleaning everything up.Oddly, I never got to see the lab tech nor the dentist again and said to the assistant, where did they go? She said “oh you won’t see them again today” I said “whats the conclusion, no one ever told me?” and she said “he’s not replacing them, that’s it…we want you to keep these that’s why we just reshaped them” and I said “WHAT, he SAID he would DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO MAKE ME HAPPY and he KNOWS the new set is what he left me believing!” My mother couldn’t believe it either, she stood up and spoke for me as well. The assistant told me to SHUT MY MOUTH and not speak like that in their office, there were other clients. I asked for a refund to have another dentist finish his faulty work (not to mention he BROKE one of my veneers when putting it on and still hasn’t rescheduled me to have it remade) and she said “YOU ARE NOT GETTING A REFUND AND YOU ARE NOT GETTING NEW VENEERS!” I cannot believe my dentist left the room and left his assistant to do “the dirty work” for him. How cowardly!I was told to leave the office and they came and talked to me outside because I was crying and they said I was disrupting their office. The assistant kept saying they decided they would just grind away from what I had and reshape them to my liking but I hate my canine and bicuspids, they are too small and they can’t add to the tooth structure when they keep taking away from it. She said they will not change the veneers because they think in their medical opinions that the teeth look too nice, but I am the one that paid 7,000 dollars for these teeth..not them. Do I sound like I have a medical malpractice case? My dentist lied to me, right to my face. My mother was there as a witness and every time I have to go back into that office I will indefinitely make sure I have someone there as a witness, maybe even bring a video recorder or at least a tape recorder just incase I need documented proof in court later on down the road. Also I paid with Care Credit, which is a health loan company. Do you think the loan can be halted while this is being settled?I need SERIOUS help, please. Serious advice only.JCan people please answer seriously, this is a very serious matter!

A: Judge Judy time!