That’s what I was thinking when my bite was corrected. But all surrounding teeth have fillings in them. I just had X-rays done, so no cavities are showing up. Don’t have a clue what’s causing it. Doctors don’t either. I don’t think they missed a root cause I think the pain would be worse if they had.
IIRC, and I'm not certain, a close by tooth with a filling was the culprit and I had to have a root canal on that tooth as well before the pain stopped. Seems like the filling was close to the nerve and removing the nerve was the only solution. I'd keep pushing until you are pain free. It's not just all in your head, even though it's all in your head.
It may be that one or the other of the fillings is still high. I have to go back over and over to get it right. I have a cross-bite, my lower jaw being bigger. I have to grind back and forth on their carbon paper, in addition to up and down, to get it right. Dentists tend to forget that the height of the filling changes with my type of bite, depending on where the jaw is from side to side. It's a pain...That pain that woke me up was the tooth in front of the root canal one. It had a lot of decay in it. Still something up with the root canal tooth I’m pretty sure. All the surrounding teeth have fillings, so don’t think it’s the surrounding teeth
I'm with your cousin in this. I've had a number of them, at my age. First, I've never had any sponge material put in and I've never had an endodontist send me back to the dentist for filling, and that's over three separate endodontists. In every case, the endo has just filled the tooth him (and her) self. Also, how on earth would the endodontist know there's sponge under there without removing the filling, unless he has and you just haven't mentioned that. Finally, what needs to be "retreated?" The tooth is dead. The most that would have to be done would be to drill out the filling and replace it. That shouldn't be $950. In fact, both of them should be scrambling at this point to make it right...
It is the cotton pellet material he was calling the sponge material. Still don’t know what that is but that’s what they called it.
The tooth already had a crown on it? Typically you don't get crowns unless you break the tooth or have a root canal to begin with.
I have actually had a couple of root canals done on crowned teeth. The crowning doesn't kill the tooth, and, if it develops a problem later on, then the dentist has to drill down through the crown...
Yep been on there since 2005. My new dentist said I could possibly have to have a new crown if I have the tooth retreated. If that’s the case, and my old dentist doesn’t do what’s right, I’m just going to get it pulled I think and save money to get an implant. I mean the tooth is already dead. If in two years I have more problems after this infection is taken care of, I’ll be out even more money for a dead tooth. That’s how I’m leaning at the moment.
Have they opened the tooth back up? How do they know there's material still in there? Also, a root canal kills the tooth, making a further infection impossible. I just don't understand anything either of these guys are saying. About pulling and waiting for an implant, that's trouble. As soon as it's pulled, the teeth on either side are going to drift in towards each other, which will make an implant later on complicated...
I haven’t had it retreated yet, so they haven’t opened it up. You can see the material on X-ray, though. Two other dentists have confirmed what the Endodontist told me yesterday about the cotton pellet being left in there. There is infection at the bottom of one of the roots. This has been confirmed by two dentist as well. I’m assuming it’s coming from the foreign material in there and not the root canal treatment itself, but no one has told me what caused the infection so that’s a guess. But from my googling, infection is a common thing with root canals or one reason why root canal treatments fail.
