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Ravenes
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- Jul 19, 2008
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After many, many years of not going to the dentist, I finally braved it three months ago. The dentist gave me a treatment plan, all was going well until #18 was worked on. The initial work was for a crown, but after I started feeling pain in #19 (which had a filling), the dentist diagnosed #18 as the troublemaker after tests. The next time around (most of the work except for a crown fitting and the routine original exam has been under IV sedation), he did a root canal on the tooth. This was about 5 weeks ago. The tooth was immediately permanently crowned as the crown was ready.
The pain has been diminishing, but seems to have reached a plateau. I have pain (dull pain that goes away as soon as the percussion isn't applied) when I tap the crown on the sides, near the front. I also (for some reason, especially on weekends) feel like I'm feverish, though my temperature never tops 99.1F, and this weekend has never topped 98.6F. I have an overbite, so I always hit the sides of my teeth when I eat, causing it to hurt. My dentist thought, last time I mentioned it, that I might have a cracked tooth. He re-x-rayed the tooth and says that there's no problem with the root canal. The tooth above it is also permanent crowned (done after the problem tooth was crowned).
When I google, I can find plenty of causes. The #1 seems to be that the crown is too high. Cracked teeth seem to come up when the dentist hits the tooth on the top and it hurts - but it doesn't now (it did the first time) when my dentist does the cotton test. But I'm not finding anything on the google searches on what might be the problem when the sides hurt. My dentist has never suggested it might be a too-high crown.
It took me a month to work up the courage to call the dentist in the first place, so I'm terrified to go chase down another dentist or endodontist for a second opinion, but this is really annoying. Has anyone seen anything like this before? Is there something my dentist might have missed? Is it time to find a new dentist?
The pain has been diminishing, but seems to have reached a plateau. I have pain (dull pain that goes away as soon as the percussion isn't applied) when I tap the crown on the sides, near the front. I also (for some reason, especially on weekends) feel like I'm feverish, though my temperature never tops 99.1F, and this weekend has never topped 98.6F. I have an overbite, so I always hit the sides of my teeth when I eat, causing it to hurt. My dentist thought, last time I mentioned it, that I might have a cracked tooth. He re-x-rayed the tooth and says that there's no problem with the root canal. The tooth above it is also permanent crowned (done after the problem tooth was crowned).
When I google, I can find plenty of causes. The #1 seems to be that the crown is too high. Cracked teeth seem to come up when the dentist hits the tooth on the top and it hurts - but it doesn't now (it did the first time) when my dentist does the cotton test. But I'm not finding anything on the google searches on what might be the problem when the sides hurt. My dentist has never suggested it might be a too-high crown.
It took me a month to work up the courage to call the dentist in the first place, so I'm terrified to go chase down another dentist or endodontist for a second opinion, but this is really annoying. Has anyone seen anything like this before? Is there something my dentist might have missed? Is it time to find a new dentist?