Judythecat
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Hello, sorry that I keep asking the same questions, but I wondered if anyone could help reassure me, please?
I have a diagnosis of atypical facial pain, which is mainly on the left side of my mouth, but likes to keep me on my toes and can shift about. A month or so ago it flared up quite badly, and I rang, then went to the dentist two weeks ago. She did a full exam, and was happy the pain is neuralgia, and not my teeth - she said there was no need for an x-ray, and it would be doing one for the sake of it, not based on clinical need.
I am no better, and am conscious that sometimes I feel a kind of “zing” when I eat or drink something hot, which is new. The pain is all on the outside of the teeth, a kind of burny feeling, from the top left pre-molar to the front tooth (like the side where my cheek/lip sits against it, rather than inside the tooth.) Sometimes it feels like it is in the gums, when it is further forward it can feel like it's in my nose. There is no pain on biting down.
I only have one pre-molar on each side, top, and bottom, as I had four out for orthodontics as a kid - the pre-molar has a filling, but the teeth in front don’t.
The fact no x-ray was done is niggling me. Does it sound like there could be an infection knocking about somewhere, based on that ramble? Logically I trust my dentist and also know it is unlikely three “virgin” teeth have gone bust, plus one with a filling. But that zing...?
My gums were scored 0 other than one 1, so I don’t think it is gum disease.
Thank you for reading if you did. And sorry to keep asking silly questions! I am feeling more on edge because my friend needed an emergency appointment last week, and was told he had an abscess - his surgery added him to a waiting list for RCT, running back to the start of lockdown, and sent him off with antibiotics. (His tooth is at the front so he didn’t want to have it extracted, which they could have done there and then.)
I have a diagnosis of atypical facial pain, which is mainly on the left side of my mouth, but likes to keep me on my toes and can shift about. A month or so ago it flared up quite badly, and I rang, then went to the dentist two weeks ago. She did a full exam, and was happy the pain is neuralgia, and not my teeth - she said there was no need for an x-ray, and it would be doing one for the sake of it, not based on clinical need.
I am no better, and am conscious that sometimes I feel a kind of “zing” when I eat or drink something hot, which is new. The pain is all on the outside of the teeth, a kind of burny feeling, from the top left pre-molar to the front tooth (like the side where my cheek/lip sits against it, rather than inside the tooth.) Sometimes it feels like it is in the gums, when it is further forward it can feel like it's in my nose. There is no pain on biting down.
I only have one pre-molar on each side, top, and bottom, as I had four out for orthodontics as a kid - the pre-molar has a filling, but the teeth in front don’t.
The fact no x-ray was done is niggling me. Does it sound like there could be an infection knocking about somewhere, based on that ramble? Logically I trust my dentist and also know it is unlikely three “virgin” teeth have gone bust, plus one with a filling. But that zing...?
My gums were scored 0 other than one 1, so I don’t think it is gum disease.
Thank you for reading if you did. And sorry to keep asking silly questions! I am feeling more on edge because my friend needed an emergency appointment last week, and was told he had an abscess - his surgery added him to a waiting list for RCT, running back to the start of lockdown, and sent him off with antibiotics. (His tooth is at the front so he didn’t want to have it extracted, which they could have done there and then.)