Hard food, Hard luck!

Yesterday, a patient who last saw us one year ago introduced his girlfriend to see us for her dental problem. When we first saw him last year, he had broken his tooth eating compressed crispy Thai pork floss, a very popular snack. In order to save his tooth, we had to perform a root canal and crown the treated tooth (which is still outstanding) to protect it from fracturing.

Well, her girlfriend presented yesterday with exactly the same problem, only on a different tooth. We had to relief her pain and rebuild the missing part of her tooth before giving her an appointment for the root canal.

We would have been expected that after his original mishap, he would have advised his girlfriend to be more careful when eating hard food.