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Jojo3399
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Hello,
I’ve only ever had one root canal years ago and after over a year of pain and trying to figure out what was wrong, a neurologist said it was trigeminal nerve damage from dentistry work (it was numerous procedures within a short space of time on one upper left molar tooth). Thankfully within 2 years it settled.
A few weeks ago I had a deep massage where she kept telling me I was very tense. She worked a lot on my neck and head / temples area. Within 2 hours of the massage, I had stabbing pains in my left side of head. The stabbing pains were short - only a minute long and would come and go for a few days. Across my cheeks and jawline it felt like tingling / crawling nerve pain (similar to the last time).
I did not have any tooth problems at this point. No hurting to bite down and no pain in a single tooth.
Within 5 days of the initial stabbing pains, I then had throbbing tooth pain localised to a lower left premolar. When I tapped on the tooth, it was very sensitive compared to the others. Dentist said tooth infection and put me on antibiotics.
Within 1 week, the SAME tooth on the right side was aching and this required a filling a few days ago.
Is it a coincidence that within a few weeks I’ve had pain in exactly the same tooth on either side? Could this be TMJ or trigeminal pain? My jawline and up towards my ear is sore.
It has been a particularly stressful 12 months in my life and I wonder if I am grinding at night and therefore have put pressure on the same two lower premolar teeth?
It sounds like a daft question, but could the deep painful massage have triggered something? Inflammation? Blood flow? TMJ/TN pain that isn’t actually the tooth?
Or was there always an issue with this tooth and the massage has woken up an infection? It sounds mad even to type it. But it just all seems like a weird coincidence to start so suddenly out of nowhere and no issues with my teeth (I was at the dentist for my check up 5 months ago).
My dentists are fabulous and I do trust them. I just have a massive panic after the last time when I ended up getting more dental work for no reason as it was TN pain by that point.
I have attached the X-ray of the premolar they say needs root canal. On the surface the tooth looks amazing, no discolouration and no marks etc. If there’s any advice I would be extremely grateful.
I’ve only ever had one root canal years ago and after over a year of pain and trying to figure out what was wrong, a neurologist said it was trigeminal nerve damage from dentistry work (it was numerous procedures within a short space of time on one upper left molar tooth). Thankfully within 2 years it settled.
A few weeks ago I had a deep massage where she kept telling me I was very tense. She worked a lot on my neck and head / temples area. Within 2 hours of the massage, I had stabbing pains in my left side of head. The stabbing pains were short - only a minute long and would come and go for a few days. Across my cheeks and jawline it felt like tingling / crawling nerve pain (similar to the last time).
I did not have any tooth problems at this point. No hurting to bite down and no pain in a single tooth.
Within 5 days of the initial stabbing pains, I then had throbbing tooth pain localised to a lower left premolar. When I tapped on the tooth, it was very sensitive compared to the others. Dentist said tooth infection and put me on antibiotics.
Within 1 week, the SAME tooth on the right side was aching and this required a filling a few days ago.
Is it a coincidence that within a few weeks I’ve had pain in exactly the same tooth on either side? Could this be TMJ or trigeminal pain? My jawline and up towards my ear is sore.
It has been a particularly stressful 12 months in my life and I wonder if I am grinding at night and therefore have put pressure on the same two lower premolar teeth?
It sounds like a daft question, but could the deep painful massage have triggered something? Inflammation? Blood flow? TMJ/TN pain that isn’t actually the tooth?
Or was there always an issue with this tooth and the massage has woken up an infection? It sounds mad even to type it. But it just all seems like a weird coincidence to start so suddenly out of nowhere and no issues with my teeth (I was at the dentist for my check up 5 months ago).
My dentists are fabulous and I do trust them. I just have a massive panic after the last time when I ended up getting more dental work for no reason as it was TN pain by that point.
I have attached the X-ray of the premolar they say needs root canal. On the surface the tooth looks amazing, no discolouration and no marks etc. If there’s any advice I would be extremely grateful.
