- Aug 26
Egg Salad, Anyone?
Question: Dr. Crapo: I had a frightening and frustrating experience on my holiday this past summer. On the second day of my trip, I was...
- Aug 11
I Feel Your Pain
Q: Life is really three steps forward and two steps back. Try as I might I can’t seem to get my teeth fixed and they stay fixed. Over the...
- Jul 28
Disease and Function – Do I Have A Choice?
Q: I am deathly afraid of dentists. I have always had trouble with cavities since I was a child. As an adult I’ve had tons and tons of...
- Jul 15
A Chip Off The Old Block
Q: Dr. Crapo: Many years ago (thirty-five plus), I had extensive bridgework. I lost my right eye teeth and the one beside it towards the...
- Jun 17
Dealing With Conundrums
Q: I’m in a state. My life has had all kinds of ups and downs. It seems that I go from emergency to emergency, putting out fires. It’s a...
- Jun 10
A Deep and Steep Grind
Q: I’ve had trouble with my teeth all my life. I’ve had big fillings, crowns, root canals and extractions. I never seem to be able to...
- May 27
I Want It My Way
Q: I’m not a dumb guy. I have many skills in many fields. That’s a good thing and a bad. Good because I see things that, in my field of...
- May 12
The Gold Standard of Treatment
Q: Dr. Crapo: I am from Mexico. My husband and I moved to Canada forty years ago. We had a family and made a life here. My husband was a...
- Apr 22
Implants To Replace Front Missing Teeth
Question: Dear Dr. Crapo: I’m a forty-five year old man with an upper partial denture that’s been there for fifteen years. I lost my...
- Apr 8
My Worst Nightmare
Q:I’m terrified going to the dentist because of a nightmare surgery. My eye teeth were sideways – fangs under my lips. My front teeth...
- Mar 25
Wrestling With Difficult Issues
Q: Dr. Crapo: My mother had a trauma to the head fifteen years ago. Since then her speech has deteriorated to a state that she only can...
- Mar 3
Out of the Deep
Q: Dr. Crapo: I’m a hard working forty year old who owns his own construction business. I’ve been in construction since I was a...
- Feb 19
This is Not a Gag!
Q: Dr. Crapo: About ten years ago I gave up on my teeth. They were crooked and full of fillings and every time I went to the dentist he’d...
- Feb 4
Another Crossroad in My Life – How About Some Help
Q: I’m nearing my eighth decade. I’ve cared for my teeth in the best manner I could but at this point I find myself at a crossroads. I...
- Jan 29
“What If We Didn’t Have Implants?”
Question: Dear Dr. Crapo: I’m eighty years old and I just broke a tooth, at least that’s what I thought, so I went to the dentist. It was...
- Jan 14
Getting A Grip On Things!
Q: Dr. Crapo: Nine years ago, I decided I wanted a better set of teeth. I had an upper denture and seven lower teeth with a partial. I...
- Dec 18, 2023
Heal Thyself – Not!
Q: Many years ago, I had a lot of dental work done. It has served me well, but about two years ago I was hit while driving on the side...
- Dec 3, 2023
Headaches, Headaches, & More Headaches
Q: About eight years ago I had problems with my front teeth and they had to come out. I had to wait till my gums healed to get a partial...
- Nov 19, 2023
What’s Happened to Your Teeth
Q: This is a hard letter/confession to vocalize. During the Covid time with all its precautions and warnings, I was affected more that I...
- Nov 6, 2023
I Was Afraid To Deal With Teeth…Period. Then…
Q: Two years ago, I came to the realization that my teeth, my lower teeth wouldn’t make it through much more indecision. They were...
- Oct 25, 2023
Instant Teeth, How Can That Be?
Q: I have worn an upper denture for most of my adult life. I have most of my lower teeth, thank goodness. My husband has gone through...
- Oct 9, 2023
I Can’t Get No… Satisfaction
Q: I am very frustrated about my teeth. I am first generation here in Canada so it may be hard to ask what I want and even then to know...
- Sep 25, 2023
The “Big Deal” With Implants
Q: When I was twenty-five, I was told that my back teeth were soft. I was told they would never hold a filling, so my best bet would be...
- Sep 11, 2023
Taking Your Lumps
Question: Dear Dr. Crapo: A year ago I decided to get my teeth capped. I had the dentist cap my six upper front teeth. I wanted to get...
- Aug 28, 2023
“Back Breaking” Challenges
Question: Dear Dr. Crapo: Two years ago I was in a terrible accident where my back was broken in three places. Fortunately I survived the...
- Aug 13, 2023
Radiation and Implants
Q: Dear Dr. Crapo: Twenty years ago I developed a lump under my jaw. I went through the tests and it was discovered to be a lymph node...
- Jul 23, 2023
My Implant Broke!
Question: Dr. Crapo: A number of years ago I had a lot of dentistry. I had four implants put in. Two of them held a bridge on the upper...
- Jul 16, 2023
Second Chances Can Be Miraculous
Q: When I was a kid, we moved around a lot – and I mean a lot – and always in the hinterlands. There were no medical or dental services...
- Jun 25, 2023
What’s A Dental Sink Hole?
Q: About six weeks ago, I’d had it with my front teeth. They were so sharp they’d cut my tongue and it would literally bleed and then...
- Jun 11, 2023
As Flabby as a Double Chin
Q: I don’t know if you’ve come across a problem like mine but it’s getting serious. I’ve managed to keep some of my teeth. They are all...
- Jun 4, 2023
“Not Nah nah----na Nah Nah”
Q: I’m a sixty-three year old man. I’ve had bad teeth for the last twenty-five years. I’ve pressed my dentist for every idea under the...
- May 25, 2023
But What if I Want to Keep My Teeth?
Q: I’ve kept most of my teeth to this point of my life even though I was told by my parents when I get old, I’d lose my teeth and have to...
- May 14, 2023
Fussy... May Be Good
Q: Dr. Crapo: I’ve got a bit of a dilemma and I don’t know if I’m being too fussy, (aka) anal, or if my doctors dentists) are not...
- May 7, 2023
Where There’s a Will, There’s Technology!
Q: As a kid I hated going to the dentist because every time I went it was because of a toothache and the dentist just pulled teeth. Even...
- Apr 30, 2023
My Teeth Don’t Like My Cooking
Q: Many years ago as I decided my vocation, I fell in love with cooking. Almost forty years later, I still love to cook. I make very good...
- Apr 17, 2023
Pulled In Different Directions!
Q: Dr. Crapo: Last week I went to the dentist because I had a bad ache in my upper right, last molar. When he looked at it he said it had...
- Apr 9, 2023
Tooth or Consequence
Q: I’m a guy who can put off tooth pain with the best of them. I’m so good in fact that I’ve lost most of any back teeth. I get pain,...
- Apr 2, 2023
How Big A Deal Is My Lost Crown?
Q: I am 56. Ten years ago, a gold crown came loose and fell off one of my right lower molars. The hollow tooth hasn't bothered me since...
- Mar 26, 2023
Implants in Time Saves Mine!
Q: I retired three years ago and I’m in good health, but I’m having a hard time chewing my food. I have most of my lower teeth but only...
- Mar 19, 2023
Serious Chewing
Q: I’m a youngish adult, early thirties. I have family in Canada and the US so one year it seems I’m getting my teeth cleaned in one...
- Mar 12, 2023
Easy as 1, 2, 3
Question: Dear Dr. Crapo: I’m forty-five and have started a company that’s looking successful. I love the work and we’re growing. Up to...
- Mar 5, 2023
I’m a Bad Boy
Q: When it comes to teeth, I’m a bad boy. I think it stems from the fact that I have a tremendous gag reflex. I mean, when a dentist gets...
- Feb 26, 2023
What A Headache
Q: I have excellent health, at least I did until about eighteen months ago. I saw a dentist for some dental work and had two crowns done...
- Feb 12, 2023
Self-Treatment, Oh My!
Q: I recently went to the dentist because I felt things in my mouth weren’t right. I hadn’t seen a dentist for eight years. He wanted to...
- Feb 5, 2023
A Boatload of Trouble
Q: I just visited the dentist and I’m nervous, confused, and angry. I guess at myself. I’m nearly fifty and I go to the dentist because I...
- Jan 29, 2023
But I've Got No Pain
Q: I have a tooth problem. My wife says this to me all too often. My retort is, “I have all my teeth,” to which she says, “Really? I...
- Jan 22, 2023
To Bridge or Implant?
Q: I have a beautiful daughter, she’s twenty-one. When her permanent teeth were coming in as a child, we found that she was not going to...
- Jan 15, 2023
My Teeth Are Growing Out Of Control!
Q: Dr.Crapo: I was raised in a country where all dental decay meant the tooth was coming out. I have no back teeth on my upper right side...
- Jan 8, 2023
Let's Blow This Joint - Not!
Q: Dr. Crapo: I am writing because I’m in pain, I don’t know where to turn and I’m frightened about my future. I’m middle aged, in what I...
- Jan 1, 2023
The “New Man” Theory
Q: Dr. Crapo: I’m seventy-two years old and thank goodness, I’ve had great health all my life. I feel much younger than my age. I have no...
