Tooth questoin

[Toofy]

ok, about 9 months ago I had to get a crown on my front tooth.

My dentist carved away at the tooth bone to create a "V" shaped cone. A crown was fit and everything was fine. However, I bit down on some food and heard a crack. The crown didn't break, but the bone did. The tooth is now unstable where I can wiggle the crown back and forth. When I bite down on food it hurts.

What are my options now?

 

[pascale1973]

Depending on how bad!

Wow, it sounds painful and annoying quite frankly, if the crown didn't break it sounds like the tooth structure underneath did, not knowing wether you had a root canal on this tooth or not make a big difference, you didn't mention pain so I wonder if you've had a prior root canal on this tooth. The reason i mention this is because when there's a root canal, generally they place a post and buildup a structure on top of that to create the tooth structure under the crown. If the tooth structure is still acceptable and you see a good dentist that really likes "saving teeth", you might be able to have a post and buildup done and a new crown put on top, the worst part is it's a new crown and you can't reuse it. I'd say go back to the same dentist and see if he's kind enough to discount it since he just had it done.