Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
miki wrote:
bloody buggering hell, now a piece of my molar has broken off and the dentists are also closed and dont consider this an emergency
If it helps - that happened to me ~15 years ago and nothing came of it. I still have a slightly jagged little corner of tooth. Various dentist have looked at it, shrugged, and said "if you're not bothered there's no reason to mess with it."
I have one that broke pretty badly, but it didn't expose the nerve. It's too badly broken to fill, but there's not enough of the tooth surround for a crown, I was at the dentists just a few weeks ago and she was like, 'Yeah, the nerve is a safe distance away, I'll just grind it down a bit to get rid of the sharp edge, and away you go'.
(There was something else that was a possibility but I really didn't like the sound of it, and since it wasn't bothering me, we just agreed to leave it.)
Basically, if it's not causing pain or interfering with your mouth action and mastication (lol), it's totally OK to just leave them alone.