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drewby00
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- Feb 18, 2008
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Hi-I haven't been to the dentist in @12 years due to major fear, I have 2 molars (one on each side) on the bottom that have now both completely broken off at the gumline. With one of them, yesterday when I was eating I somehow bit down hard on it and I feel like I jammed a piece of tooth deeper into my gum or broke the tooth in half, while in the gum, if this is even possible. I am haveing some major pain issues today with it now, up until then neither of them have hurt at all, just broke off from this inside. I cannot bring myself to call the dentist office here in town, b/c I know that they don't do sedation dentistry (I'm in the middle of nowhere in Iowa, about 2 hours away from any larger town) and going out of town to someone who does is just not feasible. I do have some antibiotics that I didn't use b/c they weren't strong enough (for something else) and I've started taking those just in case I have developed an infection, but I have no swelling, just sharp pains when I hit the area with my tongue or eat/drink. I am contemplating calling and trying to get an appt but wanted to get some info ahead of time, if this tooth was decayed all the way through to the root, it is likely unable to be saved? Is something like this easy to extract? I'm terrified at the thought of calling and actually going in, I'm not sure I can do it....