What happened before seeing Ikeda Shika
Many years ago, on an ordinary dental checkup, a dentist convinced my wife to extend the height of some molar teeth, suggesting that this might help to avoid possible occurrence of temporomandibular joint disease in the future, even though there was no symptom at the moment. As such, all the small and molars (8 teeth) of the upper jaw were lengthened by 1 ~ 2 mm with fillings. From that time onwards, my wife's occlusion was seriously tampered, resulting in persistent teeth and jaw pain and difficulty in eating properly. The persistent also gravely affected her daily life. Because of the undue biting pressure resulting from the tampered occlusion, many of her teeth cracked one after the other. None of the dentists that she subsequently visited could remedy her occlusion.
In the summer of 2018, my wife found a very dedicated and experienced dentist X with good ethic. With patience and skills, dentist X has been able to improve her occlusion and significantly reduce her teeth and jaw pain by meticulous micro-adjustments to resin crowns that he has put on. These resin crowns were very properly crafted and durable, but they were meant to be an intermediate step to find the optimal biting, before replacing them with permanent ceramic crowns. The only issue was that the micro-adjustment of the resin crowns seemed to be taking too long. By Jan 2021, 70 - 80% of the pain symptom has gone, but there was no clear idea as to when the micro-adjustment could come to an end where she could eventually receive the permanent ceramic crowning. At around the same time, because of the occlusion problem in those previous years, her upper left #2 tooth (UL2) has been damaged and eventually fell off. She would want to replace it with implant, but dentist X opined that she should go for a bridge rather than implant.
With a pressing desire for a foreseeable completion timeframe of the occlusion treatment, and the preference for implant to bridge, my wife started out looking for 2nd opinion in early 2021.
Sadly, her worst nightmare started from visiting the Ikeda Shika Ohori Dental Clinic.