{"id":1729,"date":"2016-10-15T22:17:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T03:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2016-10-15T22:23:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T03:23:40","slug":"cavities-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/cavities-of-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavities of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"

This first patient had a large deep cavity on the inside (lingual surface) of her upper lateral incisor. The decay extended under the gum-line and the pulp was necrotic. We discussed treatment options and could have extracted the tooth and placed an implant, but I felt we could save this tooth with a root canal and composite build-up.<\/p>\n

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deep decay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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decay extended into pulp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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composite build-up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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root canal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The next patient had a cavity on his upper molar. I quickly and easily removed the decay and placed a composite restoration.<\/p>\n

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decay-before and after<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This first patient had a large deep cavity on the inside (lingual surface) of her upper lateral incisor. The decay extended under the gum-line and the pulp was necrotic. We discussed treatment options and could have extracted the tooth and placed an implant, but I felt we could save this tooth with a root canal … Continue reading Cavities of the day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11,32,29,28,33,31,10,101,12,71,15,17,16],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cavities","tag-arlington","tag-caries","tag-cavities","tag-cavity","tag-composite-restorations","tag-decay","tag-dentist","tag-dentistry","tag-dr-gentry","tag-dr-philip-gentry","tag-northern-virginia","tag-philip-gentry","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}