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Pearly77
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- Feb 5, 2020
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Hey there! I had a bottom premolar root canal in October. No infection—tooth just kept aching. It hasn’t ever felt totally right but the last few days or so it has really been aching —kind of a “high” pain to pressure and touch in certain spots but more a burning all along my lower jaw and up into my ear. Sometimes the ache extends across the upper left jaw. That’s the best way I can describe it. The jaw has no pain when I touch it but a constant burning feeling. Ibuprofen does not change it at all. Comes and goes but mostly has been there all along. Does not hurt to eat on (maybe a bit sensitive but not excessively so). The gums are not sensitive to press on.
Went to the dentist today and had an x ray. They said the root canal looks perfect with no infection at the root tip.
What in the world could be going on? An important thing to note—I have had other root canals on the top teeth in my mouth -no infections just painful teeth—that look perfect on x ray but are sore to the touch. Soreness ebbs and flows but still a degree of soreness in them three years later. Sometimes that burning feeling in gums but no pain in actual gums when I press. Look perfect on x ray. Is this the same thing? This burning feels more intense and the tooth is more sensitive to touch but…
Dentists are stumped with me. I never know what’s actual pain and what is …whatever this is.
Went to the dentist today and had an x ray. They said the root canal looks perfect with no infection at the root tip.
What in the world could be going on? An important thing to note—I have had other root canals on the top teeth in my mouth -no infections just painful teeth—that look perfect on x ray but are sore to the touch. Soreness ebbs and flows but still a degree of soreness in them three years later. Sometimes that burning feeling in gums but no pain in actual gums when I press. Look perfect on x ray. Is this the same thing? This burning feels more intense and the tooth is more sensitive to touch but…
Dentists are stumped with me. I never know what’s actual pain and what is …whatever this is.