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Acheygirl
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Oh the stress! My dental fears are through the roof.
I had been diagnosed with atypical dental pain after two root canals did not fix the pain. After seeing a specialist he feels all looks good with the two root canal teeth.
I do have a large cracked and heavily filled molar behind the two root canal teeth and since my pain settled I decided it was the time to get a crown in hopes to see if it's salvageable. This tooth never hurt. I have held off as I was afraid prepping and crowning would cause irreversible pulpitis. This tooth has several cracks.
Dentist took out all the old filling and said he's seen worse cracks but did not indicate if he felt it went into the root. (I imagine he may have suggested extraction otherwise)? I had the crown prep this past Wed. He mentioned he put some insulation in there? When the novocaine started to wear off later that evening it began to ache. I have been taking advil. It goes through moments where it hurts pretty bad and if I bite on that tooth near the back it hurts sharply. Hurts to touch the side of the tooth at the gum line even though the crown does not go up that high. I think this is more of a partial crown. P
Pain mainly upon eating and it changes through the day. Is this an inevitable root canal? Have you ever seen a patient with bad pain after a crown end up recovering without a root canal? Lastly is it possible it could be infected this quickly? In a desperate move to save my tooth from root canal I am trying to keep any inflammation down via advil and just not chewing on the tooth or messing with it. Praying there is a glimmer of hope it might not go Darth Vader on me!
I had been diagnosed with atypical dental pain after two root canals did not fix the pain. After seeing a specialist he feels all looks good with the two root canal teeth.
I do have a large cracked and heavily filled molar behind the two root canal teeth and since my pain settled I decided it was the time to get a crown in hopes to see if it's salvageable. This tooth never hurt. I have held off as I was afraid prepping and crowning would cause irreversible pulpitis. This tooth has several cracks.
Dentist took out all the old filling and said he's seen worse cracks but did not indicate if he felt it went into the root. (I imagine he may have suggested extraction otherwise)? I had the crown prep this past Wed. He mentioned he put some insulation in there? When the novocaine started to wear off later that evening it began to ache. I have been taking advil. It goes through moments where it hurts pretty bad and if I bite on that tooth near the back it hurts sharply. Hurts to touch the side of the tooth at the gum line even though the crown does not go up that high. I think this is more of a partial crown. P
Pain mainly upon eating and it changes through the day. Is this an inevitable root canal? Have you ever seen a patient with bad pain after a crown end up recovering without a root canal? Lastly is it possible it could be infected this quickly? In a desperate move to save my tooth from root canal I am trying to keep any inflammation down via advil and just not chewing on the tooth or messing with it. Praying there is a glimmer of hope it might not go Darth Vader on me!
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