What's root-planing like?
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It does sound horrible, but we must educate you on what we are doing.  99% of patients are completely fine with no pain during or tenderness afterward.  If you have tenderness after, take 800mg motrin and use warm salt water rinses. \nI have never had a patient ask for the procedure to be stopped. By the time the numbness is gone, so is any soreness.
724193
Everyone here is right.  The deeper the filling is the more likely it is to have effected the nerve.  The way my dentist explained it to me was 'If the nerve has been disrupted, it will eventually die. It may not die today or next year but it will eventually...leading to a root canal'.  I notice sometimes when I chew gum the same thing happens;  I may get a dull ache in a tooth that has a filling in it.  Every time it occurs I panic that the nerve in the tooth has died and the abscess is setting in.  Sometimes it's the case and sometimes it's just sensitive.  The only way I can ever be sure is to have the dentist x-ray it.  If the nerve is dead, yes you will need a root canal.  If it's a molar, I suggest getting a crown.  Once the root canal is done, the tooth will weaken and be easier to break.  Crowns are pricey but well worth it.  Depending on your dental insurance, you may decide to pull it which would be the cheapest route.  Good luck!
1029770
I have recently had root treatment on two seperate teeth, I ended up having to get one of them out!! a week later ,so I say no , just ask for extraction , Dentists say they are trying to save our teeth but in fact are making a huge ammount of money from unsuspecting patients, who are usually at their wits end with pain when they visit the dentist in the first place, that they will agree to anything the god like dentist is suggesting !!
504192
I would advise your dentist that you are in this much pain when u go back. Few days after fillings they can be irritable and pain full, sometimes this goes after a few days and if not go back. \n When i had rootcanel few months ago, i used to get a aspirin, crumble it up to powered, and put it on my tooth to relief the pain. (asways read label)
187578
It sounds like you had a root canal. Good for you, saving your tooth is very importan. If you had a root canal, you need to have a crown placed on the tooth, espescially if it is a back tooth. Teeth become brittle once this is done and they are very likely to break. Protect your investment by having a crown placed. Did your dentist not mention this?
373965
to have root canal\n\nmeet you at the corner.....\n\nmuahahahahaha
775552
Yes, actually if you water the plants too much the roots gets rotten and die, on the other hand if you don't water the plants they also die, so it has to be a balance, water moderate once a day and plenty of sunlight, that's the idea..☺
532584
I had two several years ago, done by an endodontist - they specialize in root canals. I can honestly tell you that it didn't hurt at all. After my first one, I went home. When I had my second one a week later, I went straight to work because I knew there would be no pain or discomfort.
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I had a root canal that never healed, in fact I never got as far as the permanent filling. The tooth had a very long root that was difficult to work with. It was very badly infected and eventually (after 6 months and 4 rounds of antibiotics) I had an apicoectomy, had the root canal finished and it is fine now. I would go for another opinion.   an apicoectomy is when they go into the gum, remove the tip of the root and put a retrograde filling in if you don't know what that is, it was no big deal and I was glad to have the tooth recovered, I was ready to have it pulled and would have if I hadn't just had orthodontics put on.
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It's tedious. You have to do one hair at a time and more than likely have to do it over and over again to kill the root. I don't think it even works. I read that long time ago on one and I see them in garage sales and such all the time, which means they don't want to hassle with them or/and they don't work.\nDoes Nair work?
1101702
Cheap, pull it.\n\nIf salvageable, expect starting price of $1800 for root canal and crown.
561885
Oh my god! The dreaded root canal!! Enough to send one to the poor house, directly!! A relative of mine had been told `how much she needed one' and the person (you could say dentist, if you tried hard) botched the job badly, and left my relative in a bad way. I couldn't believe how much she got charged for being mauled! I will N E V E R  ever get a root canal done: send me to the Siberia - that would be preferable! You can put me to bed with a shovel, before I'd ever let them near my canal!!!! Take the cruise, for sure!
10901
Well it takes just 5 minutes. And its painless too. ( Unless you need root canal treatment if the cavity is very very deep)
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http://www.netodontist.com/projects/iosonline/journal/rarticle1.htm\n\nI hope it helps..
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I'd recommend never using a hard toothbrush for anything except cleaning lime off of shower fixtures, Mr. Apache.\n\nAnd I"ll admit to using a toothpick around the gingival margin, but I don't know if I recommend it!\n\nCouple possibilities:\n\n1 - you could have a "high" filling - if you hit too hard on that tooth, it could cause like a bruise on the ligament under the tooth.\n\n2 - Loose filling or filling with open margin.\n\n3 - Deep decay that is causing nerve damage or even an abcess.   \n\nSolutions:   #1, just adjust the bite ; very easy\n#2, replace filling (small expense) or might need a crown (larger expense and #3 - root canal (then maybe crown) (very exp) ORRR extract the tooth (small expense.)\n\nObviously go see a dentist to figure it out - the longer you wait the worse it will get.  (man, i shoudl have that printed on a bumper sticker i say it so much.)\n\ngood luck!!
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As with all these type sof question the answer is : it depend sentirely on your scale of measurement.\n\nYou are essentially dealing with a fractal relationship. The root sans hairs theroetically has a smooth and hence finite area. The root with hairs has a convoluted area which is potentially infinite.
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THIS PREPARATION INTO THE TOOTH PRIOR TO ROOT CANAL TREATMENT USUALLY TAKES THE SHAPE OF AN OVAL WITH THE NARROW PART OF THE SHAPE POINTING TOWARD THE BUCCAL AND TOWARDS THE LINGUAL.SEE THE LINK:\nAccess Preparation on Maxillary Premolars\n\nThe secret of gaining access to maxillary premolar pulp chambers is to first outline the cavosurface margin limits and then to proceed from there toward the pulp with burs whose long axes are directed toward the center of the root at the CEJ level.\n\nThe cavosurface outline of the access opening should reflect the cross-sectional shape of the underlying root and pulp chamber and is therefore oval in shape with the narrowest dimension of the oval being M-D. (Fig. 8). \n\nThis M-D dimension should be just large enough so that the head of a #6 round bur will just wedge into the center of the oval, but not rotate, when placed with the fingers (about 2 mm). \nCaution: Use of a #6 bur to cut the preparation will result in too wide an access outline. \n\nThe B-L dimension of the access is determined by points one-half way up the buccal and lingual cusp ridges from the central groove as determined by viewing from directly over the occlusal surface. It may be helpful to mark the limits of your outline form on the tooth in pencil before beginning.\n\nUsing a #701 bur whose long axis is held parallel to the long axis of the tooth, penetrate the enamel into dentin in the central groove area and then extend your cavosurface outline out to your previously determined limits. Place the floor of this prep about 1 mm below DEJ in the central groove area (Fig. 9). Then change to a long shank #2 round bur and penetrate from your initial access preparation toward the pulp chamber in a conical fashion\n\n\n  \n\n\nThe longer shank bur gets the handpiece head back away from the occlusal surface so that you get better visibility and it allows you to see more of the bur shank to help line it up with the center of the tooth. The angulation of the bur as you proceed toward the chamber is critical. As you can see in Fig. 10, maxillary premolars are considerably narrower M-D at the CEJ level than they are at the occlusal surface. The chamber lies in the center of the crown at CEJ level. Your objective is to make the center of the tooth at CEJ level your target as you penetrate with the bur. Use your perio probe to determine the mesial, distal, buccal and lingual aspects of the root at the CEJ level. It may be helpful until you get more experience to place pencil marks in the center of the root on the buccal and lingual at the CEJ level to use them as guidelines as you penetrate toward the chamber. You will be aiming for the center of an imaginary line connecting these two marks (Fig. 11). Remember, the angulation of your bur shank must be controlled in two dimensions, M-D and B-L (Fig. 10). It takes very little deviation from this path, particularly in the M-D plane to result in considerable gouging and even crown perforation (Fig. 12).\n\n\n  \nFigure 11. View of occlusal surface with outline of root structure at CEJ level superimposed. "X" is your target. Figure 12. Gouging and perforation of crown. \n\n\nDue to the narrow M-D width of many maxillary premolar pulp chambers, you may not get the sensation of falling into the chamber with the bur. Therefore, as you approach the level at which you expect the chamber to be, you should frequently check the base of your prep with the endo explorer to see if it will drop into the chamber due to its fine point or will give you resistance to withdrawal (binds or a "tacky" feeling) because its tip is wedging into a small opening in some aspect of the chamber.\n\n\nIt is desirable to estimate the depth at which you expect to encounter the pulp. A good way to do this is to measure on the radiograph the distance from a cusp tip to the pulp chamber and then set this length on your endo explorer with a silicone stop. When placed to the depth of your preparation