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Post by mockchoc on Feb 10, 2009 8:45:03 GMT
I had root canal surgery which cost lots of dollars then only lasted about a year.
I was eating a multi grain bread roll and it cracked off.
The little that was left the dentist said needed to be broken off so did that.
Also he says I need surgery. Why?
If I had the roots already removed for the root canal why can't it stay as it? I've spent enough and dealed with enough hassle already!!! No one can see, it's right up the back.
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Post by mockchoc on Feb 10, 2009 8:53:03 GMT
Thoughts?
I'm thinking of getting a second opinion.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 10, 2009 10:19:34 GMT
Poor you! I went through something similar last year and I've still got problems this year with the same tooth (which is really only a bit of root which has been capped with a 'new' tooth...This is the tooth that's hurting me now.
You should get a second opinion. Unfortunately I have to tell you that unless a dentist is highly qualified in dealing with root fillings, then his work might not be successful. In my case my dentist, whilst carrying out the root filling, drilled through the root and into my facial maxilla. He didn't tell me that he'd done this; he must have been afraid to tell me, or perhaps the idiot didn't know. This led to infections.
You must see another dentist and he should be a specialist in root fillings.
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Post by Aussielover on Feb 10, 2009 11:02:43 GMT
Yuck - I feel for you, because I have to have root therapy, as well, which will result in a weakened tooth.
The oral surgeon explained that once the root matter is cleaned out, even though they fill it with a kind of cement, the tooth is severely weakened and that is why it needs a crown. I imagine that your dentist will want to grind down the broken nub, and fit a crown. If what's left of the tooth is too far down, he will have to insert and cement a peg into the root in order to have something to cement the crown to. I imagine this is what the dentist is referring to by more root surgery.
Poor you - I know how expensive the whole thing is.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2009 18:19:51 GMT
Just hope you don't need implants.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 10, 2009 23:12:25 GMT
It's a terribly painful business.
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Post by mockchoc on Feb 11, 2009 5:56:57 GMT
kerouac I don't mind if I get a free boob job with it. Gravity sux  Yes I will get another opinion, seems fine to me as it is. Not that there is much left. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2015 17:58:47 GMT
This was our very first thread in the Free Clinic.
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Post by htmb on Apr 24, 2016 11:05:45 GMT
This was our very first thread in the Free Clinic. Let me add to it....... I'm guessing a root canal is in my near future. I hope in wrong. |
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Post by rikita on Apr 25, 2016 13:32:44 GMT
i feared i might need one, as the dentist said if my tooth continues to hurt then it is probably necessary, but my tooth stopped hurting now, hasn't done so in weeks! yay! hope the same happens to you, htmb ...
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Post by htmb on Apr 25, 2016 14:17:52 GMT
Good news, Rikita!
My good news is, no root canal needed. I'd already had it done several years ago.
My bad news is, the tooth needs to be pulled asap and, eventually, replaced with an implant. I'm waiting to see the oral surgeon now.
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Post by htmb on Apr 25, 2016 18:08:17 GMT
I guess, on the one hand, I was exceptionally lucky. After my dentist told me my molar needed to come out, due to decay under the crown, I walked across the parking lot and begged the staff at the oral surgeon's office to work me into their schedule. My job responsibilities step up dramatically starting tomorrow and I could not figure out how I could fit oral surgery into my schedule.
The staff told me to sit in the waiting room, and later called me back to see the surgeon for what I thought was a pre-op visit. The next thing I knew they were attaching a blood pressure cuff to my arm, and sticking my finger into one of those clips that monitors your heart rate. At first I figured it was overkill for a pre-op visit, especially when the nurse asked if I'd had breakfast, and then it dawned on me that this was how seriously they took my plea to be "worked into the schedule."
Basically, once my mouth was seriously numb, it took less than five minutes to yank off the crown and remove the remaining (huge) tooth. So now I can get on with my work, and in about four months I'll go back to be evaluated for the implant.
If I'd known it was going to turn out this way I wouldn't have posted in this thread over the weekend, but I suppose you just never know what the outcome is going to be when it comes to problems with teeth.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 25, 2016 18:28:02 GMT
My advice, based on my own experience and tons of anecdotal evidence from friends and acquaintances: do not get a crown put in your mouth.
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Post by chexbres on Apr 25, 2016 19:41:30 GMT
htmb - given my advancing age and the pitiful state of my teeth and bank account - the last time I had a molar removed, I asked the dentist to glue a fake tooth to the ones on either side of the gaping hole, rather than go through a necessary bone graft and the implant process. It seems that nobody wants to do "bridges" anymore, for some reason, but he made me a nice tooth and did a fine job. I just have to pass a piece of floss underneath, between the tooth and gum, and I have never had any problems, chewing or otherwise.
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Post by htmb on Apr 25, 2016 21:26:09 GMT
I've experienced both a fixed bridge and implant posts. In this case, a bridge would cause me to need much more work done on the two adjoining teeth and would require crowns. This would possibly lead to more issues. I won't need a bone graft and don't anticipate any problems other than the major expense of it all. In the end, a bridge would cost almost as much as an implant.
While I'm not in pain at the moment, I think I'm still a little numb from the anesthetic. It was definitely an overall exhausting experience. I find it amazing the toll a little procedure like having a tooth pulled can take on your energy level.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 4:29:00 GMT
Is your dental coverage as a working person significantly better than it will be when you are retired? I know that my dental coverage went down a bit, but my optical coverage went way down.
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Post by rikita on Apr 26, 2016 6:50:21 GMT
i didn't know coverage goes down once you retire! i have no idea how it is here - seeing i am still far from retirement - but i assumed it stays the same ...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 6:54:46 GMT
Government health coverage doesn't go down, but the supplementary insurance that most people get is too expensive to keep at the same level once you've retired (well, most of us). The supplementary mutual insurance helps to pay for 'optional' dental work like implants and crowns or better quality eyeglasses, or a private room at the hospital.
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Post by chexbres on Apr 26, 2016 16:38:53 GMT
htmb - just the thought of the force it takes to yank out something that is firmly attached to your jawbone is enough for me to start swooning. You'd think someone would have thought up a better way than using what is basically a pair of pliers and brute strength.
Hope you feel better soon - and good choice to avoid the bridge business.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 26, 2016 18:14:45 GMT
'Dentist of horror' Jacobus van Nierop jailed in France. www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36140189Jacobus van Nierop, 51, "took pleasure" in causing horrific injuries to patients in the small central town of Chateau-Chinon, prosecutors said. The court in the central French town of Nevers heard that patients had suffered broken jaws, recurrent abscesses and septicaemia from van Nierop's work. He had drugged patients then mutilated them as they slept in his dentist's chair. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 18:20:31 GMT
Yes, that has been a major story in France for the last six months. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison today.
I am really happy that I have had everything done at the dental school for the last 20 years, because not only do you have a dental student in at least his 6th year working on you, but absolutely everything that the student does has to be verified by a professor before you leave. Not to mention not paying for anything (except crowns and implants).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 19:28:27 GMT
'Dentist of horror' Jacobus van Nierop jailed in France. www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36140189Jacobus van Nierop, 51, "took pleasure" in causing horrific injuries to patients in the small central town of Chateau-Chinon, prosecutors said. The court in the central French town of Nevers heard that patients had suffered broken jaws, recurrent abscesses and septicaemia from van Nierop's work. He had drugged patients then mutilated them as they slept in his dentist's chair. We'll have to get David Cronenberg on that one. |
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Post by htmb on Apr 27, 2016 10:07:35 GMT
htmb - just the thought of the force it takes to yank out something that is firmly attached to your jawbone is enough for me to start swooning. You'd think someone would have thought up a better way than using what is basically a pair of pliers and brute strength. Hope you feel better soon - and good choice to avoid the bridge business. Thanks, Chexbres. It was a bit traumatic, but the area seems to be healing. |
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