having crown or a bridge on teeth disqualifies from fighter flying?
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Surely any 'treatment' (crowns, fillings etc) you have done to your teeth can be undone?
When I went through Cranditz, seem to remember buddies having fillings replaced with some special amalgam that didn't have 'bubbles' in it or something. One of the guys explained that poor dentistry could leave holes within fillings or between fillings and teeth. This would be a problem under rapid decompression conditions. Long time ago mind, perhaps things have changed.
One thing I am reasonably confident about is that if you had an explosive decompression, the stick holder would have quite enough to cope with without massive tooth agony at the same time!
When I went through Cranditz, seem to remember buddies having fillings replaced with some special amalgam that didn't have 'bubbles' in it or something. One of the guys explained that poor dentistry could leave holes within fillings or between fillings and teeth. This would be a problem under rapid decompression conditions. Long time ago mind, perhaps things have changed.
One thing I am reasonably confident about is that if you had an explosive decompression, the stick holder would have quite enough to cope with without massive tooth agony at the same time!
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15 years as Gr1/4 backseater with a RAF dentist wife
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"What rubbish, crowns are fine."
She did a full gold crown on one of my molars just before Gulf War 1
She was also the J Dent O at Cranwell & didn't drill everybody's fillings out.
The exploding myth is exactly that - a myth!
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"What rubbish, crowns are fine."
She did a full gold crown on one of my molars just before Gulf War 1
She was also the J Dent O at Cranwell & didn't drill everybody's fillings out.
The exploding myth is exactly that - a myth!
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Don't know what power trip your Dent O's on, but many aircrew fly with cavities. It's not a problem if the air can escape, it just gets a bit sensitive!
Diving is much worse for this (called barodontalgia) because the pressure changes occur over relatively short distances/shallow depths.
A phantom pilot in the late 70s/early 80s had full upper and lower dentures, regularly tested to 7g. Tell your dentist that. Plus you're far more likely to swallow the crown than inhale it.
Diving is much worse for this (called barodontalgia) because the pressure changes occur over relatively short distances/shallow depths.
A phantom pilot in the late 70s/early 80s had full upper and lower dentures, regularly tested to 7g. Tell your dentist that. Plus you're far more likely to swallow the crown than inhale it.
