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Ladychase77
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Hello.
I am new here and I am desperate for advice because I have spent the last two weeks googling possible causes for my problem and just scared myself even more.
I had a RC done in my top front right tooth (5th on my right) in 2019. It has no teeth either side of it and it has a crown. I had some sensitivity issues for about a year mainly when having hot drinks but that has subsided now. For the last few weeks I have a painful spot high above the tooth in my gum that I first noticed when washing my face. It is so sore when you press on my cheek like a bruise and feels like an electric type feeling that shoots down into my tooth when I wiggle my finger over the gum.
I visited my dentist two weeks ago after picking up the courage to make an appointment and told him my problem. He said that he could tell by looking at it that there was nothing wrong with it. He tapped it (which didn’t hurt) and said that I was worried about nothing. That I might of bitten on something hard and that might of bruised the gum. He said this would be easy to do as the tooth has no support either side of it. He gave me antibiotics ‘just in case’ and I finished the course with no difference.
he said that if I have any more trouble with this tooth I will have to have it extracted and the thought of going back to see him is terrifying me because I always feel everythingwhen it’s just a filling or RC so I can’t imagine how sore extraction will be.
Is it normal that he didn’t even X-ray it? I have read so many things about infections spreading and tumours and cysts that now I’m just crying all the time because I’m so worried.
If it was a bruise wouldn’t it have got better by now? It even hurts to hug my children on that cheek but my face isn’t swollen and my tooth isn’t sore but I assume that’s because it’s been root filled.
Ijust don’t know what to do. If I should go back and see him (I feel like he is angry whenever I go there because I have so many problems with my teeth) or could I go to the doctors and ask them to X-ray it. I am an NHS patient so I have no other options to go to a different dentist either.
thank you for your time
I am new here and I am desperate for advice because I have spent the last two weeks googling possible causes for my problem and just scared myself even more.
I had a RC done in my top front right tooth (5th on my right) in 2019. It has no teeth either side of it and it has a crown. I had some sensitivity issues for about a year mainly when having hot drinks but that has subsided now. For the last few weeks I have a painful spot high above the tooth in my gum that I first noticed when washing my face. It is so sore when you press on my cheek like a bruise and feels like an electric type feeling that shoots down into my tooth when I wiggle my finger over the gum.
I visited my dentist two weeks ago after picking up the courage to make an appointment and told him my problem. He said that he could tell by looking at it that there was nothing wrong with it. He tapped it (which didn’t hurt) and said that I was worried about nothing. That I might of bitten on something hard and that might of bruised the gum. He said this would be easy to do as the tooth has no support either side of it. He gave me antibiotics ‘just in case’ and I finished the course with no difference.
he said that if I have any more trouble with this tooth I will have to have it extracted and the thought of going back to see him is terrifying me because I always feel everythingwhen it’s just a filling or RC so I can’t imagine how sore extraction will be.
Is it normal that he didn’t even X-ray it? I have read so many things about infections spreading and tumours and cysts that now I’m just crying all the time because I’m so worried.
If it was a bruise wouldn’t it have got better by now? It even hurts to hug my children on that cheek but my face isn’t swollen and my tooth isn’t sore but I assume that’s because it’s been root filled.
Ijust don’t know what to do. If I should go back and see him (I feel like he is angry whenever I go there because I have so many problems with my teeth) or could I go to the doctors and ask them to X-ray it. I am an NHS patient so I have no other options to go to a different dentist either.
thank you for your time