Went yesterday for my first teeth cleaning appointment since 2019, just before the pandemic.
With the exception of having a cracked wisdom tooth pulled in 2020, I have not been to the dentist since 2019.
Because of this, I've been practicing very meticulous oral hygiene for the past few years. I spend a lot of time on my teeth.
However, my home care was not good enough. X-rays revealed that I needed two crowns. All seemed fine until a few days ago when one tooth would bleed for hours after flossing. This was due to the size and location of a cavity (back edge of tooth), and it turned out that I had the same thing going on in another tooth.
My dentist happened to have a few hours available this morning, so I got both crowns installed today. While he was preparing for a crown on the tooth that was bleeding, he also discovered a cavity on the front edge of my adjacent bottom wisdom tooth, so he filled that. All in all, $3,000 in dental work, completed 100%, in about 3 hours.
No temporary crowns were necessary. They make the permanent crowns on site. The fitting process is performed with something called Crown AI. They stick a wand in your mouth which scans the area after most of the tooth is drilled away during the crown prep. That scan is fed into the Crown AI system, and a near perfect permanent crown is created with a machine akin to something like a 3d printer. He "printed" the two permanent crowns in about a half an hour. Only very minor shaping adjustments were required for the dentist to do manually.
The process was not horrible. The worst part was my back pain during the process because of having to sit in the chair for 3 hours. Also, I don't numb up easily, so I needed a total of 7 Novocain shots. But I'm hurting right now. I broke down and took a pain pill that I already had at home, and it's helping.
I posted that I had a stroke in April, so I'm both catching up on regular doctor's appointments, and getting tests and seeing specialists due to the stroke. Over 20 medical appointments for June-early July.
If anyone feels like sending me $3K for the dental work, go ahead. 
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I can't count how many crowns I have. Fortunately, they all look natural, and I can't tell the crowns from my real teeth.
I'm pretty sure I have more crowns than I do teeth. I know that I have at least two in the front on the top (visible when smiling), due to smashing the front of my mouth in a non-car related accident back in the 80's.
The ones that were made today looked perfect and natural. I was really surprised how far technology had advanced since the last time I got a crown.
I remember one time, before this existing technology, I was getting a permanent crown created, and stupidly, the night before the appointment to have this done, I drank about four glasses of this cheap ass red wine called "Fat Bastard". It stained the hell out of my teeth, but the dentist still managed to match the color of my existing teeth so well that the crown matched perfectly. I have no idea how he managed that.
Maybe take a closer look at the crowns that are being made today, mopinko. They look really good. I guess a lot of this would depend on the skill of your dentist/crown maker as well.
Good luck! 
lotsa people think getting them extracted is the end of pain and problems, and in reality it’s only the beginning……if you do get dentures they will NEVER be right, they will NEVER be like your “old” teeth. The gums change and shift and dentures will never fit properly. People won’t wear them because they hurt are uncomfortable or just don’t like the look or feel of them. Please, please, please, keep your teeth as long as possible. I know, I worked for two different dentists and believe me, keep your natural teeth as long as you can.
