RAE
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
OK, so I went to the dentist for my 6-month cleaning about two weeks ago. It went fine, although the hygienist was a little rougher than usual on some of my teeth (she said there was more plaque than my last cleaning). Anyway, I go home and a couple days later, the nerve in my one crown (on a lower molar) starts getting very sensitive. It starts hurting whenever I put hot or cold liquids on that side of my mouth, and also hurting when I chew food with that tooth. So I go back to the dentist, and he grinds down the crown a bit, thinking that might help. It doesn't. So now the pain in that nerve is getting worse, and I go back again. Now he says......."ok, looks like you need a root canal", and schedules it for 2 weeks from now (and puts me on a 10-day course of antibiotics). I have never had a root canal, and don't really look forward to having one, but something needs to be done to this tooth so that I can use that side of my mouth again. I am not happy about having to wait two weeks to get this done, either, as it's not much fun trying to eat meals like this.
So I have two questions:
-if you have had a root canal, how did it go? How long until you could start chewing with that tooth again, without pain? Any unanticipated side effects, short- or long-term? and........
- do you think it is possible that the rough cleaning a couple days before the pain started was responsible for this crown starting to hurt all of a sudden? I have had this crown for some 12 years now, with zero problems until now. I have not brought this possibility up with the dentist or the hygienist, but it sure seems to me that the cleaning might have contributed to this problem.
-RAE
So I have two questions:
-if you have had a root canal, how did it go? How long until you could start chewing with that tooth again, without pain? Any unanticipated side effects, short- or long-term? and........
- do you think it is possible that the rough cleaning a couple days before the pain started was responsible for this crown starting to hurt all of a sudden? I have had this crown for some 12 years now, with zero problems until now. I have not brought this possibility up with the dentist or the hygienist, but it sure seems to me that the cleaning might have contributed to this problem.
-RAE