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The Vintage Collection / Re: Target DPCI #s
« on: March 2, 2007, 11:29 PM »
Interesting... none of the Targets near me had it regardless. I just needed to know that I had the right #
Thanks.
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What exactly has to be done to re-implant a tooth? Can they be re-attached and have the same strength that they did before? I always figured when a few teeth were knocked out it was time for some dentures.
Basically if it's been out an hour or less there's a good chance that the ligament on the root of the tooth will take back to the ligament left in the socket in the bone. That's really the key, an hour or less. Also there are various transportation mediums that the avulsed tooth can be placed in from the site it was knocked out until you get to a dentist. There's something a lot of school nurse's offices have called Hank's Balanced Salt Solution (Save A Tooth) that has exactly the right mix of salt and nutrition to keep the cells in the ligament on the root of the tooth alive so that they'll be viable and reattach to the bone when it's reimplanted. If you don't have Hank's on hand, you can also use milk, saliva, or water with varying degrees of success.
Even if all goes well, and the tooth takes back to it's home, there's a good chance that the tooth will have to have a root canal at some point in the patient's life.
I was always curious why it was that whenever I visit a dentist to have my false tooth piece fixed (Stepfather walloped me in the back of the head and I smacked my face off the back of the dining room steel chair and half went missing) they X-Ray it to see if it needs a root canal. Never has. Just always curious why. I guess now I know because of the trauma of impact?
Kevin