Re: OT root canals
- From: "countryone77@xxxxxxxxx" <countryone77@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:52:13 -0800 (PST)
On Mar 6, 8:19 am, Taria <tariawils...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is interesting. I have been reading all the root canal
accounts here and thinking they sound like no big deal. I
have heard horror stories about the pain involved in RC
procedure, the pain that follows and more than a
few failures with the whole thing having to be done over.
So have the way these things are being done changed to make them
easier and more succsessful? What's up here?
Taria
Molly Wills wrote:
I have had two root canals in recent months. This is my view. As long as
you get adequate local anesthesia before hand, the procedure is not is
as bad as so many say. Sure it isn't a picnic, and nothing I would elect
to do but it isn't the torture that somehow has been assigned to it.
Also, consider the alternative. Searing dental pain that keeps you awake
at night and puts tears in your eyes.
The worst side effect I had afterwards was being a bit tired.
Molly in Mass.- Hide quoted text -
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I've had several root canals, and while most were accomplished as you
mentioned above, two of them have not been picnics. So, here are my
(rather long) root canal horror stories:
The first one I ever had appeared to work okay, but several years
later I started having severe cold sensitivity (even tap water would
cause shooting pain). By that time I was living in another state, and
saw a different dentist. She said that the first dentist had not done
a complete job -- he had missed one of the roots. So she set out to
do it, and after an extended period of time, said that the root was
calcified and she could not do it either. By the time I got home the
novacaine had worn off and the vicodine did not cut the pain. I was
awake all night and she tried to do it again the next day -- again a
failure. I was in pain for over a week before it let up (unless I
chewed on it). I then saw an endodontist, who also tried to do that
final root, but he failed also. I now had a choice: Pull the tooth
or have oral surgery (cut through the side of the jaw to remove the
root). Given the tooth's location right next to a nerve, there was a
chance that he might cut the nerve during the oral surgery.
Furthermore, there was no guarantee that he would get it the first
time; he did say that if a second surgery was needed, then there would
be no additional cost -- small consolation to me. I opted to have it
pulled, and it turned out that there was a hairline crack in the tooth
that did not show up on the x-rays. The tooth split into two pieces
as soon as it was extracted. There was a week or so between the final
root canal and the tooth extraction -- another pain filled period.
I recently had a large cavity under a crown (yes, my fault). My
dentist said that he had gotten close to the root and hoped that I
would not have to have a root canal. Again, when the novacaine wore
off I was in severe pain -- a three-day weekend. I went back to him
the following Monday, and he tried to do the root canal. He was not
able to get down to the tip of one of the roots. Not only that but
one of his tools (tiny file) had broken off down there. From what
I've learned that is not an uncommon occurrence and usually it does
not cause a problem -- they usually fill it up with something anyway.
After another week of pain (waiting to see if it would "settle down",
I saw him again and the then referred me to an endodontist. The
endodontist was able to get down that tip that my dentist missed.
Also, it is not uncommon for this particular tooth to have an
additional root, which he found and was able to do most of it.
However, that root that he found meets with the one in which my
dentist lost the file. So he spent quite a while trying to remove the
file -- unsuccessfully. He sent me home for a couple weeks to see
whether doing the major part of that root would be successful or not.
It's been two weeks now. The severe pain finally let up but it still
gets sharp pains when I bite on it. So when I go back he will have to
try again to remove the file. If he cannot get it out, then he can
cut through the side, underneath and remove the root. Happily this
particular tooth is not right next to a nerve., but I hope that I
don't have to go through all of that!
I can tell you that technology has advanced considerably in the time
span between the two root canals.
Bev in TX
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