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Ellie721
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I had a gum line filling done on tooth #31 almost 3 weeks ago. I have been in pain ever since. I cannot chew on it, it sends shooting pain or throbbing pain into my jaw, other teeth, and into my jaw joint. I have been on antibiotics for over a week, they helped some. I have been on painkillers around the clock and still have some slight pain from time to time, especially if I chew. At first, my dentist thought it was because my jaw was being overworked due to lots of dental work being done over the past month or so (this filling, a root canal on tooth #20, chewing on my right side constantly for 2 weeks with a temporary filling in my RCT tooth, etc.) I went back in for a visit to my dentist and he told me RCT is needed, I told him to extract it and he made me kind of nervous saying it wasn't a logical idea. I am already a couple thousand in debt for my RCT I had done last month, and my insurance is maxed out. He offered to adjust the bite and see if that would help since I would no longer be putting pressure on that tooth. Well, it still hurts so bad and I just want to cry I am so fed up with dentistry at this point.
I cannot afford a RCT, I cannot afford a crown. I will have to make payments on the extraction even if I did go through with it. I have 2 friends who are dental assistants, and 1 hygienist friend and they both told me to pull it, that I shouldn't live with pain. Tooth #30 and #29 (still a baby tooth) are super close together and I cannot floss without putting myself in pain because they are so close. Tooth #31 sits right up against my cheek which is why I had the gumline decay, it's extremely hard to clean and get to and I have a very small/tight vestibule.
I am 27 years old. I am a broke college student, wife, and mom, I am not in a position where I could take out a loan or get a credit card. Should I get tooth #31 extracted, or should I just claim bankruptcy and get a RCT and crown Would my face change shape if I have it pulled? Will I still be able to chew normally and live a normal life?
I will add... tooth #2 had a very deep filling put in it, last time I had a very deep filling on a tooth a year later I had to have it RCT, so if #2 did start to drift down, I could pull that too. I know that is not "proper logic", but just a thought.
I cannot afford a RCT, I cannot afford a crown. I will have to make payments on the extraction even if I did go through with it. I have 2 friends who are dental assistants, and 1 hygienist friend and they both told me to pull it, that I shouldn't live with pain. Tooth #30 and #29 (still a baby tooth) are super close together and I cannot floss without putting myself in pain because they are so close. Tooth #31 sits right up against my cheek which is why I had the gumline decay, it's extremely hard to clean and get to and I have a very small/tight vestibule.
I am 27 years old. I am a broke college student, wife, and mom, I am not in a position where I could take out a loan or get a credit card. Should I get tooth #31 extracted, or should I just claim bankruptcy and get a RCT and crown Would my face change shape if I have it pulled? Will I still be able to chew normally and live a normal life?
I will add... tooth #2 had a very deep filling put in it, last time I had a very deep filling on a tooth a year later I had to have it RCT, so if #2 did start to drift down, I could pull that too. I know that is not "proper logic", but just a thought.