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Thank you for your comments again.
Well I went back for the second part of the RCT yesterday. Last week she told me that I wasn't cleaning right to the back of my mouth and to make sure I did as the gums were not looking their best back there. This upset me a bit because I've been trying really hard to brush properly twice a day, since I started this journey. So I had put in more effort in my cleaning over the past week but I had started to have some slight ache in the other RCT'ed tooth the other side since I did this. I didn't want to mention this aching in case it meant that the RCT was failing or I had an infection in there and I was going to loose the tooth anyway, but I decided that I was NOT going to ignore my teeth again, so I did tell her. She looked at the tooth and said it was nothing to worry about, plus the cleaning was much better than last time.
The LA was given and I didn't feel a thing this time, I remembered to breath out slowly and calmly as it went in. Once it had taken effect it was on with the rubber dam, I don't like how it clips on to the tooth, its quite uncomfortable but as it covers my whole mouth I find I can sit there with my mouth open without it feeling like its open, if you see what I mean.
As I have very little real tooth left above the gum on this one it was decided to go through last weeks filling and not remove it, to keep the strength in the tooth, which makes sense to me.
One of the roots on this tooth curves quite a lot and as she got into the curved part I started to feel it so I stopped her. She hadn't got around the corner last week so she was removing the end of this nerve, as I could feel it she put some more LA down the tooth to the nerve. However I could still feel it and so stopped her again. It was no worse than having a toenail cut where it curves in to your toe at the side, it wasn't a sharp pain but enough to be very uncomfortable. She put a bit more LA in and told me that it would get less and less the more she took out. She was right too, she talked me through it and the pain did go, it was bearable but certainly not nice. I could feel it easing off and all I thought about was bad tooth being taken away, once it was all gone, I would have no pain again. This helped and I got through it.
Then she washed the channel out with disinfectant and did some final shaping of the canal. This was gentle but she obviously touched the very end of the root as I felt some aching again, but not enough to stop her. Then she put in the plugs to seal the roots off, melting the tops off. These also seemed to press on the end of the tooth which wasn't nice. I was worried that there was something wrong as I didn't have sensation like this on the last RCT.
Finally she put on the filling and set it with the blue light. A bit of final shaping and I was done. The rubber dam was taken off and an x-ray taken before I sat up. I still had quite a bit of aching, I then remembered that I hadn't taken any Ibuprofen beforehand this time. I said that it was aching and was told that it will settle down soon and that removing the nerve in the curved part was the cause.
The x-ray of the tooth showed that she had got right to the end of the curved root, amazing! She was quite happy with how it went and didn't expect any problems with todays work. She advised I take Ibuprofen if I needed to for the ache, but if I experienced an increasing pain or swelling to come back sooner rather than later.
Next time I'm having a filling done on the top left wisdom tooth, it was going to be done today but she didn't want to do too much to me in one go. To be honest I had had enough, that curved root had pushed me to the max today, I felt very shaky leaving there and couldn't wait to take some pain relief when I got home. Now, 24 hours later I have zero ache or pain and can happily cross another tooth off the to-do list.
I remembered that I promised to post the photo of the other RCT'ed tooth with the hard pad fixed in the top of it, so I've added it here. You can see the back two teeth are not the correct tooth shape, but they will do for now until I can afford crowns on them. The next two teeth to them have also been filled/rebuilt. Plus you can see, on the right of the photo, the remaining bottom tooth to be done with its temporary dressing still in place since it was put on in February.
Well I went back for the second part of the RCT yesterday. Last week she told me that I wasn't cleaning right to the back of my mouth and to make sure I did as the gums were not looking their best back there. This upset me a bit because I've been trying really hard to brush properly twice a day, since I started this journey. So I had put in more effort in my cleaning over the past week but I had started to have some slight ache in the other RCT'ed tooth the other side since I did this. I didn't want to mention this aching in case it meant that the RCT was failing or I had an infection in there and I was going to loose the tooth anyway, but I decided that I was NOT going to ignore my teeth again, so I did tell her. She looked at the tooth and said it was nothing to worry about, plus the cleaning was much better than last time.
The LA was given and I didn't feel a thing this time, I remembered to breath out slowly and calmly as it went in. Once it had taken effect it was on with the rubber dam, I don't like how it clips on to the tooth, its quite uncomfortable but as it covers my whole mouth I find I can sit there with my mouth open without it feeling like its open, if you see what I mean.
As I have very little real tooth left above the gum on this one it was decided to go through last weeks filling and not remove it, to keep the strength in the tooth, which makes sense to me.
One of the roots on this tooth curves quite a lot and as she got into the curved part I started to feel it so I stopped her. She hadn't got around the corner last week so she was removing the end of this nerve, as I could feel it she put some more LA down the tooth to the nerve. However I could still feel it and so stopped her again. It was no worse than having a toenail cut where it curves in to your toe at the side, it wasn't a sharp pain but enough to be very uncomfortable. She put a bit more LA in and told me that it would get less and less the more she took out. She was right too, she talked me through it and the pain did go, it was bearable but certainly not nice. I could feel it easing off and all I thought about was bad tooth being taken away, once it was all gone, I would have no pain again. This helped and I got through it.
Then she washed the channel out with disinfectant and did some final shaping of the canal. This was gentle but she obviously touched the very end of the root as I felt some aching again, but not enough to stop her. Then she put in the plugs to seal the roots off, melting the tops off. These also seemed to press on the end of the tooth which wasn't nice. I was worried that there was something wrong as I didn't have sensation like this on the last RCT.
Finally she put on the filling and set it with the blue light. A bit of final shaping and I was done. The rubber dam was taken off and an x-ray taken before I sat up. I still had quite a bit of aching, I then remembered that I hadn't taken any Ibuprofen beforehand this time. I said that it was aching and was told that it will settle down soon and that removing the nerve in the curved part was the cause.
The x-ray of the tooth showed that she had got right to the end of the curved root, amazing! She was quite happy with how it went and didn't expect any problems with todays work. She advised I take Ibuprofen if I needed to for the ache, but if I experienced an increasing pain or swelling to come back sooner rather than later.
Next time I'm having a filling done on the top left wisdom tooth, it was going to be done today but she didn't want to do too much to me in one go. To be honest I had had enough, that curved root had pushed me to the max today, I felt very shaky leaving there and couldn't wait to take some pain relief when I got home. Now, 24 hours later I have zero ache or pain and can happily cross another tooth off the to-do list.
I remembered that I promised to post the photo of the other RCT'ed tooth with the hard pad fixed in the top of it, so I've added it here. You can see the back two teeth are not the correct tooth shape, but they will do for now until I can afford crowns on them. The next two teeth to them have also been filled/rebuilt. Plus you can see, on the right of the photo, the remaining bottom tooth to be done with its temporary dressing still in place since it was put on in February.