Swallowed my tooth crown!!!!

Has anyone ever done that? I am a little concerned it is going to get stuck somewhere or poke something. I am going to eat some bread and see if that helps. I tell ya, if it's not one thing, it's another....

You will be doing some interesting picking through if certain substances for a few days.

I think the usual advice on swallowing a durable objetc like that is wait a few days to see if it passes, then go for an xray. Might lodge somewhere where is can be extracted via endoscopy. Thankfully crowns are not that large!

LOL... Y'all made me laugh, thanks. My stomach cramped up bad today after eating some cheerios and kefir with a drink that I found out had artificial sweetener in it. I managed to get two pieces of toast down in case the crown was in there so it would have something to cling to. I have no idea when it went missing. I may have spit it out when I was brushing my teeth but that doesn't seem likely. Sometimes it seems like things just won't quit!

I hate to have to admit to it, but I've done that too! It happened the night before my mom and I were going to visit a family friend for a week.  My mom used to be in the dental field, so she told me to keep some wax on the tooth where the crown to prevent irritation (those candy wax tubes with liquid in them work great....just rinse out the liquid and then you can mold the wax to fit your tooth until you find your crown).  The worst of it was waiting for it come out.  I checked each bowel movement for days (thankfully, this was pre-crohn's so it was a bit easier)... i was getting nervous that it got stuck somewhere.  Finally on day 5, it came out (gotta love slow motility ).  The dentist sterilized it and then glued it back in.  It did skeeve me out a bit at first, but after a little bit I forgot and it was better than paying for a new one.  My mom and I still laugh about it.

I swallowed the temporary crown and didn't have any issues...didn't watch to make sure it came back out either.  And I'm with you Nanners, I don't think I would have let them put it back on! 

Trust me, if I could have afforded it at the time I would have had a new one made.  I was going through some rough times financially.  Between my mom and my uncle (who's a dentist) all I would have had to pay was the lab costs for the crown (a few hundred dollars), but even that would have been more than I could have afforded at the time.  Neither my mom nor uncle saw any issue with putting it back in, so after running it through the sterlizer twice it went back in.  It was in for a few years but eventually the root canal failed (unrelated) and I now have an implant in place of that tooth.  Even though I had lived with the crown for a few years I was glad to get a replacement that hadn't gone any further than my mouth.

Melissa

I swallowed one once and lost another. Very expensive! Still haven't replaced either....
But, luckily no problems with the swallowed one - I didn't really try to "follow" it through .. assume it's long gone.

Good luck