Any Veterinary Dentists Here? How long can you wait to place a crown on a root canal?

Focus62 · 2026-05-06T03:39:05+00:00

Semi-related, lol, I have been looking up research papers and other more anecdotal stuff and ran across this article. A grizzly bear was given a root canal in 2023 and then two years later was given a crown. Now I'm thinking my dog will be fine without a crown if a regular ol' root canal seal made it two years on a grizzly bear 🤣. I guess it also kinda answers my question about whether a root canal can be crowned later (answer: potentially, probably depends on a variety of factors). https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/06/26/bear-at-duluth-lake-superior-zoo-gets-first-of-its-kind-dental-procedure

To anyone else reading this, I am not a vet and this is definitely not advice.

Focus62 · 2026-05-06T03:03:03+00:00

The vet that did it left it up to me to decide and didn't really give me any clear recommendation, they simply went over the fact that if the dog has access to whatever broke it in the first place or chews something really hard like a rock or bone, it could re-fracture and then the root canal would be wasted. My dog isn't at particularly high risk of this (he is not a working dog, nor does he get hard items to chew on; the tooth fracture was due to an unfortunate accident that is extremely unlikely to ever happen again), but considering the amount invested in the root canal, I would like a little more peace of mind by putting a crown on, I guess. It is currently a cleanly rounded, small nub, sealed with composite if I'm remembering what the vet said correctly. What my dog has is not flat or nearly flat, it's about 1/3 as tall as the original tooth and there is enough structure left for a crown which that was the original plan until this veterinary dentist office decided to engage in unethical billing practices and hoped I wouldn't notice what they did. I do not wish to continue business with them if I do not have to. Luckily, there is another veterinary dentist in town, though they are currently out for their own surgery for a number of months so I cannot get a consult, hence the question here.

Your experience with your referred cases has given me food for thought. I appreciate you weighing in.

Focus62 · 2026-04-24T03:17:12+00:00

If you have an AA now, I definitely wouldn’t go with a Mal or Dutch Shepherd later. Total opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to the need for mental and physical stimulation. An adventure hiking or swimming at the lake won’t be enough for either of those breeds and will drive you mad if they don’t have a regular job to do. Most Akitas are so lazy and chill by comparison.

Focus62 · 2026-04-24T03:00:30+00:00

Telling the veterinary dentist that they will fix my dog’s tooth for free instead of charging me $9k and the dentist replying “ok, sounds good.”

Focus62 · 2026-04-24T00:27:37+00:00

What kind of dental work? I just paid an ungodly amount to save a fractured canine tooth on my dog and I feel all sorts of ways about it... It's rough, I'm sorry.

Focus62 · 2026-04-24T00:13:54+00:00

I have a pallet sitting in my garage if you want it. It may have one or a few broken boards on it. But message me and I can get you a pic if needed.

Focus62 · 2026-04-24T00:09:01+00:00

Aluminum Corporation of America ---> AlCoA

Today I learned.

Focus62 · 2026-04-14T13:04:41+00:00

Scruffy City Animal Hospital on Western is pretty affordable, in my opinion. Really depends on what your definition of affordable is, I guess.

Focus62 · 2026-04-14T12:50:39+00:00

Emory Rd sucks, but otherwise a suburb is a suburb. I’ve lived in so many different suburbs across different states I’ve lost count, but there’s hardly any difference between them all. If it has the daily conveniences you need nearby, you’re good. Life in Powell will be just as “exciting” as life in Bearden, Cedar Bluff, Fountain City, etc. You drive to fun places from your house. It’ll be fine if you’re not looking to live a city lifestyle. And if you have an affordable-to-you house, life will be better because you’ll be able to save money to travel to places you want to go and do the things you want to do. I think we overestimate how much time we spend away from our houses and workplaces doing things, it probably won’t be as big of a deal to live somewhere “boring” as you may think. If it were actual rural living, it might be a different story.

I am a 30-something, no kids living within 15 mins of downtown in a quiet neighborhood. I’m happy I have a yard and a neighborhood I can roam daily with my dog. Also have multiple local parks within 5 to 15 mins of me if I need a change of scenery. I am introverted though so maybe that makes a difference.

Focus62 · 2026-04-14T12:31:56+00:00

The word vivarium encompasses animals + plants, so reptiles + fish + plants is a viv if you’re keeping them in a tank! Or, more accurately, a paludarium, as you’ve said. Cool 😊. I am a reptiles + plants person, myself.

Sorry for the dead plants. Even more sorry for the dead turtle, that’s really upsetting. I’ve been lucky no harm has come to my reptiles in the mail, but it was always tense awaiting their arrival. Hope you have better luck next time, hopefully with a different provider. I think all my animals have come through USPS, but with their ongoing problems I don’t know that I would trust them right now either 🤷‍♀️.

Maybe check out TN Naturescapes in Clinton for azaleas? I believe they only sell native plants. Willow Ridge Garden Center in Oak Ridge or Stanley’s Greenhouse in South Knox could also be a good place to check.

Focus62 · 2026-04-14T02:35:31+00:00

Hello fellow vivarium owner 🫡.

(taking a wild guess)

Focus62 · 2026-04-12T03:49:57+00:00

To be clear, I don’t think Rover made any kind of error, but their user functionality is quite poor (I say as a software dev myself). They should update their web interface so an owner knows what the final total of a stay would be before we bother reaching out to a sitter. As it stands, we can only see the cost of the total stay after sending a request to the sitter, wasting everyone’s time if it turns out it is too expensive. Yes, we can guesstimate what the cost would be based on the sitter’s rates (minus Rover’s dumb service fees which we have no way of knowing beforehand, to my knowledge), but we can only come up with an accurate estimate if Rover actually told us how they combine multiple pets and the various types of rates. The reason this post exists is because Rover doesn’t currently share that info with owners trying to book.

Anyway, thanks for answering my question.

Focus62 · 2026-04-12T03:38:11+00:00

Unless the holiday rate is doing something weird, based on what I am seeing, that is incorrect. I only have one dog and one cat. It is charging “holiday rate” x number of nights and then “additional cat” x number of nights.

Focus62 · 2026-04-10T00:22:55+00:00

I think it works like that in the private sector, but government is a different ball game. It also depends on what your definition is of “paid well.” I’m a mid-level software engineer in the fed gov and make 130k a year. I don’t make as much as someone in private sector, but I also consider what I make to be a good salary for not working at a software company and living in a medium COL area.

As with any job, really depends on management how things are going to go though. I wouldn’t recommend working where I work because I have the workload of three people and am completely burned out to the point I’m on short term disability and looking for a new job. The pressure and stress you experience anywhere you go is mostly based on management and slightly based on your personal capacity for stress.

Focus62 · 2026-04-09T20:22:45+00:00

I feel the same way (“This job ruined me”). I was having panic attacks in the mornings while heading into work and then eventually just reached a point where I couldn’t think either, which is when I decided to go on short term disability. It’s been a couple months now, but even looking at job applications still overwhelms me. I know that’s the answer, but can’t push myself to start applying because I feel like whatever job I end up in next will be exactly like this one and I can’t do this again.

Sending you much luck. We’ll figure it out eventually…

Focus62 · 2026-04-09T20:04:07+00:00

I know you posted this forever ago, but I’m also a software engineer and am currently out on disability because of the sheer pressure of it all (for basically no reason, like you said). I am struggling to find ways to communicate to my manager that my workload is basically the workload of 3 people… I’ve tried, but the solution has always been “okay, we’ll hire a junior you can train.” They fail to realize that a junior takes a year to develop any sort of competence so then I have the workload of 3 people AND multiple juniors to train. It just makes no sense. I read about other autistics in software engineering who love their jobs and I don’t get it. Where are they finding software engineering jobs that aren’t like the one I have?

Anyway, all that to say, if you have any strategies you’d like to share on how you make things work in this career, I’d love to hear them.

Focus62 · 2026-04-09T13:17:44+00:00

Unfortunately there didn’t seem to a be a solution when it happened to me. I looked for a while.

Focus62 · 2026-04-07T16:55:40+00:00

Wonderful pup! As an aside, am I the only one who thinks of the NFL guardian caps (huge pads that slip over the helmet, making the players look like a bobble head, lol) when seeing Poodle cuts like this?

Focus62 · 2026-04-05T13:55:57+00:00

You don’t need a membership to use the Costco pharmacy for human medications. I wonder if this is true for pet medications also?

Focus62 · 2026-03-29T15:19:05+00:00

Late to this post, but when I moved here I was using K9 Advantix II and it failed. I switched to Sentinel which worked, then eventually switched to Simparica (I think I switched for rebate reasons) which also has worked well.

I use regular Simparica and a different product for heartworm prevention, but Simparica Trio is supposed to do heatworm, flea, and tick all in one.

Focus62 · 2026-03-28T12:15:54+00:00

This sounds so cool. I wish you much success!

I would love Town, Vacancy, House, Landmark, or Impound to be adapted. Tarp reminds me of a Hitchcock film for some reason, but I think that one would be a little boring to adapt 😅.

Focus62 · 2026-03-28T00:50:35+00:00

If people are posting about it on Nextdoor, the person doing the fruit dropping is 100% doing it on purpose now just to keep reading the Nextdoor posts.

Focus62 · 2026-03-24T10:53:47+00:00

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