Dentist gives false info , what is your opinion ?

When does a dental tattoo not become just that ?

According to a friends dentist , it is a dental tattoo on the xray of the white spot in the jaw bone . There is no tooth to be seen except for the one with the filling to the left of the white spot . His dentist was more than willing to even give him the xray of the area since the spot had shown up on an MRI for a neck injury .

Now correct me if I am wrong please . A dental tattoo is supposed to be on a tooth and not in the jaw bone . So my question is . Is it merely a piece of filling left behind when the tooth was extracted or something else ?

It also does not seem at all possible for a piece of filling to be in the the jaw bone or even have filling material that far below the gum line . It is obviously still bothering him and he asked me to put it out here for any possible clues to what it may be .

Dental tattoo? For real? Should I send for Dick Cheney and his hunting gear?

Get your friend euthanized if a "tooth tattoo" is something within your friend's budget. Whatever is on the X-ray is irrelevant, anyone who has lived with or wants a tooth tattoo is on borrowed time in Darwinian years.

No no no , he doesn't want a tattoo on his teeth period . He wants to know what that spot is , the dentist is calling the spot a tattoo . He is not buying into that explanation the dentist gave him .

reply to post by watchdog8110


What?? He needs a 2nd-5th opinion. Maybe a former dentist wiped his tool on that tooth during a previous filling. Dentists are F'd... whatever they tell you to do, do the opposite to save the most money on dental work.

Interesting... Probably they mean it's part of a dental tattoo(What's a dental tattoo?) left behind...somehow...Maybe a fallen piece enclosed in after wisdom tooth extraction healed over.

reply to post by JibbyJedi


All I know about dentists is that they charge horrific amounts in order to torture you.

Way more than doctors, who do their best not to torture you. Doctors look after your whole body and dentists look after your teeth.

So what is that about?

reply to post by watchdog8110

Tattoo, nawww! That looks like either a piece of filling broken from the adjacent tooth that fell into an extraction hole, or a piece of metal, probably surgical steel from either a dental drill or pick.

Just have your friend go back into the MRI and put his face close to the inner wall, if it's steel it might get sucked out if it can be magnetized. There'll be a little bleeding though, so that side of the face towards the MRI wall, otherwise, going through the brain is the long way out and might create problems ;-)

Cheers - Dave

We both thought that it may be part of a filling or tooth . The brighter white color of the spot and the filling in the other tooth says to me metal . How the heck it got to the bottom of where a wisdom tooth got pulled from in the jaw is what is in question .

When I have had teeth pulled ( not fun ) they grab the side of the tooth and are flowing blood out from the gap and the assistant is constantly suctioning up the blood and spit .

Chock it up to bad dentistry I guess .

Dang fool just might want them to do surgery on the jaw to find out after he passes away . Leave it for me to take care of from his Final Will and such . Oh great .

reply to post by watchdog8110
I'm a bit confused as to what a dental tattoo is?if it is a foreign object wouldn't it have abscessed by now?

Just to be clear a "dental tattoo" isnt a tattoo on your teeth, it when a bit of amalgam (filling material) falls into an open wound during dental work and gets stuck.

The white spot just above the arrow in this pic


Looks like something might have fallen in during a tooth extraction but If your friend is worried about it he should go get it checked out obviously

Originally posted by TWILITE22
reply to post by watchdog8110

 

I'm a bit confused as to what a dental tattoo is?if it is a foreign object wouldn't it have abscessed by now?

( brain going click click ) Have to ask him , but I don't think he had any pain associated with it . He said it has been there for years , no pain or swelling that he has noticed since the MRI / x-ray . go figure hmm .

Originally posted by watchdog8110

Originally posted by TWILITE22
reply to post by watchdog8110

 

I'm a bit confused as to what a dental tattoo is?if it is a foreign object wouldn't it have abscessed by now?

( brain going click click ) Have to ask him , but I don't think he had any pain associated with it . He said it has been there for years , no pain or swelling that he has noticed since the MRI / x-ray . go figure hmm .

I see he has had quite a bit of dental work,the shape of the object resembles a small screw.

maybe an implant?

reply to post by watchdog8110


this has already been answered. in a different post.