Dr. Sanda Moldovan shows how to put a temporary crown back on yourself using over-the-counter temporary cement. Clean and dry the crown, apply cement inside, seat it carefully, bite to check it fits right, wait five minutes, then floss away the excess. Skip sticky and hard foods until you see your dentist.
Foreign. So your temporary crown fell off over the weekend. Don't panic. This is an easy video to show you how to put this crown back in place. If you can't find the dentist, take the crown that fell out and make sure it's clean on the inside. And you can use a Q tip. You can actually use something like a toothpick inside to clean all the excess cement. Sometimes it requires a really good scraping, so don't be afraid to scrape it all off until the color is the same as on the outside. Cements typically tend to be whiter than the crown. Once you're done cleaning the crown, make sure you rinse it really well with water and you dry it. At the supermarket, you could actually find several types of cement, temporary cements. You can actually find cements that come in a tube such as this. Or you can find cements that actually come like this, even with a little spatula. Either one is fine. Whichever one you find will hold you until you can go to the dentist. So once your crown is dry, make sure that you also rinse your mouth, that you have no food particles around the tooth. If your tooth is sensitive to cold, use lukewarm water and swish gently. You don't have to dry your tooth before you use the cement. So take the tube. And the reason why we like the tube, that it's a little bit more flowable. Take the tube and open the seal and put cement into the crown. You don't have to put a lot of cement in the crown. So essentially, once you get cemented the crown, take a toothpick, not a Q tip. Okay. Because the cotton will absorb the cement. Take a toothpick and quickly spread the cement all the way around the inside of the crown. Once you get cement all the way around, go ahead and place it in your mouth. Try to get it aligned to see which part comes on the outside. Press hard down and then close your teeth together to ensure that your bite is in the right place. Squeeze your teeth and make sure all your teeth are in contact. After five minutes, go ahead and remove any excess cement. You can open your mouth and actually use floss in between the teeth to floss out the cement. But. But when you floss, just make sure you pull the floss through the tooth and not over for in between the teeth as you might pop out the crown. Also, make sure you floss the back of the crown, even if there's no tooth there, because we want to make sure we remove all the excess cement using a toothpick or even a Q tip. In this case you can actually clean the cement that's next to the gum line and again, you might have to scrub a little bit in order to remove the cement. Once you have removed the cement, you should be ready to go. Just be careful with sticky foods or really eating too many hard foods on this side until you get to a dentist and they can more securely put your crown back in place. I hope this helped and you enjoyed our video.
