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texaslassie
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- Jul 29, 2009
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First let me say I had a crown put on this tooth 2 months ago. This tooth is the last tooth on my lower left since I've had teeth pulled for braces.
Two weeks after having the crown put on I went through a tremendous amount of stress and had a lot of tension in my jaws and accidentally nashed/clacked my teeth together and felt a vibration and numbness on the crowned tooth.
Since that incident I've had pressure pain when biting and saw the dentist. He thinks I damaged this tooth and it has a stress fracture. He said he needs to do a root canal. He said I could have it extracted because the root canal could fail if the crack is too far near the root. According to him it wouldn't effect my other teeth to have this one taken out.
I'm completely terrified of dentists. So when I had THIS tooth crowned I also had another one crowned and a root canal done on another tooth at the same time with IV sedation. I left his office putting 5,000 on a credit card.
Should I have a root canal done on a fractured tooth that might not solve the problem or just get it extracted? I would also be doing IV sedation and my pocket book is hurting. I don't want to waste money on a tooth if it won't be fixed by the rc. Remember this is the last tooth on the bottom. Will my teeth not shift since this is the last one? Will the opposing tooth grow downward?
HELP ME!
Two weeks after having the crown put on I went through a tremendous amount of stress and had a lot of tension in my jaws and accidentally nashed/clacked my teeth together and felt a vibration and numbness on the crowned tooth.
Since that incident I've had pressure pain when biting and saw the dentist. He thinks I damaged this tooth and it has a stress fracture. He said he needs to do a root canal. He said I could have it extracted because the root canal could fail if the crack is too far near the root. According to him it wouldn't effect my other teeth to have this one taken out.
I'm completely terrified of dentists. So when I had THIS tooth crowned I also had another one crowned and a root canal done on another tooth at the same time with IV sedation. I left his office putting 5,000 on a credit card.
Should I have a root canal done on a fractured tooth that might not solve the problem or just get it extracted? I would also be doing IV sedation and my pocket book is hurting. I don't want to waste money on a tooth if it won't be fixed by the rc. Remember this is the last tooth on the bottom. Will my teeth not shift since this is the last one? Will the opposing tooth grow downward?
HELP ME!