Sedative filling until root canal

[Neos]

Hi,

Unfortunately a deep filling on my upper left second molar hasn’t settled and my tooth is permanently inflamed.
My dentist doesn’t feel comfortable enough to do the root canal himself so he’s referring, but it might be 1-2 months before I can be seen.

My dentist has offered to open my tooth and remove as much as my nerves as he can and put a sedative dressing over it for the time being.

How good are these dressings at reducing pain? I’m not in agony yet but the pain is slowly increasing day to day and I’m potentially looking at over a month until my root canal

 

[Gordon]

It can be effective especially if he gets some of the infected nerve tissue out of there. I don't think you've got anything to lose by trying it!

 

[Neos]

Thanks.

I’ve got it booked into tomorrow for him to put in the sedative dressing.

I’ve had one root canal done before which was painless but that tooth was dead.
Bit worried about this procedure tomorrow as this tooth is still alive just irreversibly inflamed, so hoping it’s not too painful.

 

[Gordon]

It should be fine, local works pretty well in these circumstances.

 

[Neos]

Just had it done, no pain from the procedure luckily.

Said he only cleaned out two of my roots, and is leaving the third for the specialist to do. He put in some antibiotic dressing thing in the tooth though he said.

Will the untouched root he didn’t clear cause a problem? I won’t be able to have the full root canal until end of may/early June.
Thanks

 

[Gordon]

It's impossible to know, however, getting some of the canals cleaned out can only help. He could do more harm than good digging around for a 3rd canal if he couldn't see it easily.

 

[Neos]

Thanks for the advice.

I feel a bit sore today, but a lot less pain than before the procedure. I can drink hot or cold drinks now without the insane pain I was having before, and I slept the night without the tooth waking me up in pain as it was doing before.
Fingers crossed I'm okay until I can get the full root canal done.

 

[Gordon]

Thanks for the update. Fingers crossed for you, if it was going to fail it'd probably be within the first 24 hours or so, so it sounds promising.