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can a dentist give me advice about prolonged pain post root canal? (xray included)
I had a RCT of #29 3 1/2 weeks ago. The RCT was on a virgin tooth that had pain to eating, especially sweet, hot, cold, but no decay.
Since the second the anesthesia wore off, the tooth has hurt 10x worse than before. I saw the referring dentist and the endodontist who did the root canal multiple times and they all say they don't know why it hurts so much. There was no infection prior, and they don't know why the RCT made it hurt more.
I am living on pain medicine and barely still getting relief. Can someone look at this xray and see if they can see anything? I am considering getting it extracted because of the pain but the endodontist keeps telling me to "hold on". If it were getting any better at all I would hold on, but I am in so much pain every second, I cannot live my life.
The general dentist said there might be a tiny overfill which might be causing irritation to the PDL, but the endo, looking at the same xray, says the root filling is confined inside the tooth and there is no overfill. I asked about retreatment and he said it would have no reason, as the root canal is fine.
Can someone help? If there was any visible reason to have this pain I would at least know extraction was the best thing to do. It is hard for me to consider it because the dentists are saying not to, and it's a visible tooth and I am young.
I will try to attach the xray.
I had a RCT of #29 3 1/2 weeks ago. The RCT was on a virgin tooth that had pain to eating, especially sweet, hot, cold, but no decay.
Since the second the anesthesia wore off, the tooth has hurt 10x worse than before. I saw the referring dentist and the endodontist who did the root canal multiple times and they all say they don't know why it hurts so much. There was no infection prior, and they don't know why the RCT made it hurt more.
I am living on pain medicine and barely still getting relief. Can someone look at this xray and see if they can see anything? I am considering getting it extracted because of the pain but the endodontist keeps telling me to "hold on". If it were getting any better at all I would hold on, but I am in so much pain every second, I cannot live my life.
The general dentist said there might be a tiny overfill which might be causing irritation to the PDL, but the endo, looking at the same xray, says the root filling is confined inside the tooth and there is no overfill. I asked about retreatment and he said it would have no reason, as the root canal is fine.
Can someone help? If there was any visible reason to have this pain I would at least know extraction was the best thing to do. It is hard for me to consider it because the dentists are saying not to, and it's a visible tooth and I am young.
I will try to attach the xray.