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MountainMama
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I am going in Thursday to see the endodontist for a cone beam scan, since my front tooth root canal is still painful.
I want to know what it will show, so I know what questions to ask. My dentist is great about explaining everything, which helps my anxiety. The endodontist is not. She tends to just jump straight to her recommendations, and to be honest, if I had asked more questions the last go round with my molar, I may have chosen a different treatment plan.
The pain is so much different from my other failed root canal. The pressure pain is slowly getting better, so I think my dentist was correct in her guess that it was ligament pain. There is an aching in the tooth next to the root canal tooth. Would the scan show if that tooth was infected? The dentist said that tooth was most likely affected by the same trauma that affected my front tooth, since the canal was also wide.
Also, would it show if there was infection or something wrong somewhere else? I have an intermittent pain on the roof of my mouth near the canine on the top.
Does the scan show all my teeth or just focus on the area of concern?
I want to know what it will show, so I know what questions to ask. My dentist is great about explaining everything, which helps my anxiety. The endodontist is not. She tends to just jump straight to her recommendations, and to be honest, if I had asked more questions the last go round with my molar, I may have chosen a different treatment plan.
The pain is so much different from my other failed root canal. The pressure pain is slowly getting better, so I think my dentist was correct in her guess that it was ligament pain. There is an aching in the tooth next to the root canal tooth. Would the scan show if that tooth was infected? The dentist said that tooth was most likely affected by the same trauma that affected my front tooth, since the canal was also wide.
Also, would it show if there was infection or something wrong somewhere else? I have an intermittent pain on the roof of my mouth near the canine on the top.
Does the scan show all my teeth or just focus on the area of concern?