What to Do After Getting a Temporary Crown

What to Do After Getting a Temporary Crown

After getting a prep done for your new crown, you will have a temporary crown place on the tooth. This is to protect the tooth structurally and ensure the tooth doesn’t move while you are waiting for the final deal. And if your temporary comes off, it can be a bit of a hassle to put back on. What should you do to avoid the temporary coming out?

 Getting a temporary crown can change your lifestyle a bit

When cleaning your teeth, make sure not to pull up when flossing the temporary crown. When you floss, push down on the temporary with a finger and pull the floss from the side.

While eating, you will want to 

Here are the kinds of foods to avoid:

1.    Hard Foods: Your temporary crown definitely has limits on durability. Avoid hard foods like raw vegetables, shelled seafood, and dry nuts.

2.    Sticky Foods: These temporary are supposed to come of from stress. Make sure not to chew on things like taffy, sticky rice, or anything that feels adhesive to the teeth. These can pull the crown right off!

3.    Hot and Cold Foods: This is for teeth that have not gotten a root canal. Due to the thickness of the temporary crown and how it is not as thick as your new upcoming crown, you might few sensitive if you eat hot or cold foods. Take your coffee and tea at room temperature. 

If you are having trouble deciding what to eat, here are a following recommendations:

1. Liquid Meal Replacements: Drinking nutrition shakes and meal replacement drinks like Soylent will make sure that you have a safe, room temperature way of getting your nutrients in.

2. Smoothies: Creating a smoothie is fun way to get your food in too. Make sure that you don’t add ice to your smoothie if you want to avoid cold sensitivity. 

3. Eggs: Eggs are great soft foods that you can cook almost anyway. Don’t eat the shell of course.

4. Pasta: Pasta is tasty and safe to eat! Feel free to eat spaghetti and raviolis!

5. Soup: Clam chowder, corn soup, chili, all are great options to have when at moderate temperatures!