Question:
I had a root canal 96 hours ago and the pain/sensitivity in that tooth due
to pressure is still so severe I can't get anything near it. A noodle (very
soft one) strayed between the teeth this evening and gave me such a
throbbing, hammer-to-the-jaw zing, I practically screamed.
This is a tooth that I posted about a couple of weeks ago--dentist told me
it needed an old filling replaced. Three weeks later, pain and sensitivity
to everything including sweet, hot, cold, and bite. It's been downhill from
there--first, shaping it for a crown hoping that would fix the diagnosed
crack. Then, when pain on biting kept up after the crown shaping, a root
canal.
I'm finding sites that indicate root canals should NOT result in persistent
pain afterwards.
Is serious sensitivity to pressure/pain something within the realm of
normal? And if so, how long might it persist?
Answer:
I don't know what's 'normal', but I've had two teeth root treated and
capped with little problem. A third tooth had the root canal drilled
out after what the dentist called ' very nasty infection'. He
drilled into the tooth to drain it, then gave me tetracycline for a
week before the root treatment then drilled it all out, filled it and
made arrangements to cap it.
By the time the next appoinment rolled around 10 days later I was
getting pain on biting so we cancelled the preparation and I took
another week of tetracycline. The pain went away again, but came
back after about another 10 days. Now I'm taking penicillin in the
hope that will make it go away permanently.
Dentist says it's very unusual for this kind of thing to happen, but
if the antibiotics don't work, the next resort is local surgery to
clean out the area under the tooth. He says that always works...
The pain is so bad now that I'd be happy to lose the damned thing.
1. NO fistulation into the periodontal ligament ..... Fistulation
allows bacteria to escape.
2. Excess bacteria at the para periapical region ... into the
alveolus.
3. It will resolve ... sometimes antibiotics are indicated ...
