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How long have you lived with toothache for before getting it sorted?

How long have you lived with toothache for?

  • < 4 weeks

    Votes: 13 18.1%
  • > 4 weeks, <6 Months

    Votes: 11 15.3%
  • >6 Months, <1 Years

    Votes: 9 12.5%
  • > 1 Years, <2 Years

    Votes: 6 8.3%
  • > 2 Years, <5 Years

    Votes: 11 15.3%
  • > 5 Years

    Votes: 22 30.6%

  • Total voters
    72
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GeorgeMaier

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May 29, 2009
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This is a poll question.
 
I had terrible tooth ache and still get it and not out of my choice, i did got to a dentist who never treated my teeth properly, leaving them to get worse.
 
I'm very ashamed to say I finally had my first root canal yesterday on a tooth that has hurt since the crown was put on, two YEARS ago! My dentist kept telling me I'd have to have a root canal, but I just couldn't bear it! My fear and anxiety were too much so I lived with chewing on one side of my mouth only. When the cold/hot became too much to even eat soup or salad, and had me longinly looking at ice cream, I broke down and found a "gentle" endodontic dentist. I'm so happy I did. He really took my anxiety seriously, I mean, I didn't take care of this for two years, I was a committed phobic patient. Please contact me if you are living with pain like that. I can tell you what he helped do for/with me to calm me down.
 
I still have a tooth that is very sensitive to cold that has a large filling in it. It has been that way for over a year too and I have yet to mention it to my dentist.:whistle:
 
Thanks for all your input. I was just wondering. Im 15 now, and last year i had a tooth sorted that had been hurting for 8 years. It was decayed right down into the root. It was infected for a few months before it finally got fixed.
 
I will tolerate toothache until it becomes so excrutiating I can't function - can't work, can't sleep, can't have a waking moment without crying in agony. That's when I call the dentist. I have exposed roots and gingivitis, sometimes it gets infected, I have had teeth break, absess, all ignored.
 
As short a time as possible! I've only ever had one REAL toothache, from an abscess. The pain was unbearable and I was at the first dentist's office I could find the next day. I did find that my 'tmj' magically disappeared after I had my back teeth pulled - I'd put up with it for years because I didn't think there was anything to be done about it.
 
I think about 2 very long weeks at one time. I was in so much freaking pain, both sides, but i still refused to go to a dentist or doctor since this was in the middle of the whole "severe dental phobia" thing. the pain was so bad that even rotating heat and ice PLUS rotating 2 otc pain killers weren't really putting much of a dent in pain. Unless i was asleep, i was hurting.

Reflecting back on it, it had to be my stinking wisdom teeth coming in. I had those yanked with my dental work last year but those went since there was no saving them. 3 busted at or below to gum and the other was in bad shape.
 
Even though I don't like going to the dentist I will go as soon as possible, like I am having to do as I found out during an urgent appointment I had to make. I had a dental appointment the week before for a cleaning and checkup .I need a filling which has been causing pain and a she will also like to do a small filling somewhere else.

I don't want any more root canals unless I have to, the one I had in 2006 was bad enough but was a different dentist and he has left the practice years ago.

I will never avoid going to the dentist for checkups and I don't want to get serious dental work doing (crowns, dentures, teeth taken out) also important dental infections.
 
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