Do root canals make your teeth come out ?

Root canals leave the tooth brittle and dead, therefore more prone to fractures, yes.

This is why you should get a crown after the root canal.

Nothing lasts forever. Root canal just buys wrecked teeth a little more time.

When flossing between crowns, you are advised to be careful and gentle always.

There is no root canal without a crown. The tooth is removed in order to clean out the roots.
There is no longer any tooth to “come out.”

@gailcalled – That is not true. I had a root canal several years ago and still have my tooth. It is discolored, so they offered to crown it; and every six months at my checkup, the Dentist offers me porcelain veneers. I believe that nature does it best, so I elected to keep my natural tooth. It is a front tooth, but I am not bothered by the discoloration and I don’t care what others think about it.

Actually I have a root canal with no crown on a front tooth from smashing my mouth into the edge of a swimming pool at age 8.
It is the original tooth and I had it bleached years ago due to some slight discoloration and bleach my teeth on a regular basis. It has been 46 years and no issues, but, I was told it was prone to being brittle so I do not bite into apples and other hard substances with my front teeth.

@hearkat They can drill a tiny hold behind the tooth and inject a bleaching solution that will have permanent effects.

I am happy to stand corrected.

I’ve had numerous root canals as well as extractions (in my younger stupider days). I should have had rc on the extracted ones but it wasn’t offered as an option nor explained.

In addition to preserving the base of the tooth below the gam in order to support a crown, a rc prevents your other teeth from drifting into the vacant space from an extraction and unbalancing your whole jaw and bite.

What flew across the room was, in all likelihood, the crown and not the tooth. Presumably the dentist could have reattached it for considerably less money than creating another one.

Crowns are usually made of durable stuff as well as bring custom fitted. Flying across the room and bouncing around a little shouldn’t really do any significant harm.

And, as Gail advised, teeth with crowns need to be treated carefully when flossing lest you unintentionally hook the floss around the bottom of the crown. If you pull hard enough it will go flying out of your mouth.

But it still beats dealing with dentures and Polident and all that crap :)

Thank you @Buttonstc . I was never told to be gentle with flossing and I never have been. My mistake. And worse, I only use Dentotape. Not thin floss.

Not so far… I had root canal on a lower incisor, no crown involved. It’s a tiny bit discolored but I don’t care. It was done 10–11 years ago, after the tooth died due to a fall. (I was lucky I didn’t knock some teeth out.)

They always tell me no but I always end up having to shave off the tooth to a nub and placing a fake tooth over it! It doesn’t look fake thiuhh