Tooth abcess!
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And it still can.
I had an abcess once. My mouth was like I had a golfball in there. Got antibiotics and the relief was felt same day. Finished the antibiotics but my abcess came back 10 times worse while I was waiting for treatment.
Went back to the dentist and got more (different) antibiotics but they did nothing. Numbed it one night with an ice cube (hurt like hell) and then used a sterile needle from my gf (she is a vet) to pop it. OMG the ecstasy
At the dentist I needed a root filling done (4 roots on one tooth????) and he injected me a few times, waited for me to be numb and then drilled out the old filling which was fine. He then started using what looked like a barbed needle to pull the "dead" root out of each chamber. 1st one was fine, 2nd one felt like somebody had poked my mouth with a red hot poker. I had never felt pain like it before and I actually swore, went pale as a sheet.
The dentist said "oops, that one must still be alive, I'll inject directly into it to kill it. That hurt just as bad again and the pain, although greatly reduced, was still there as he fished it out with his barbed hook.
So anybody telling me root work is painless is a liar.
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Same thing happened to me a week ago. Was put on antibiotics for 5 days and the pain is gone! .
.Well, below is what you wrote.
Aren't you implying that what I said was false? When I explicitly said that the RC itself doesn't hurt because you obviously do it under anesthesia.
That doesn't have any effect on your first line.
And it still can.
I had an abcess once. My mouth was like I had a golfball in there. Got antibiotics and the relief was felt same day. Finished the antibiotics but my abcess came back 10 times worse while I was waiting for treatment.
Went back to the dentist and got more (different) antibiotics but they did nothing. Numbed it one night with an ice cube (hurt like hell) and then used a sterile needle from my gf (she is a vet) to pop it. OMG the ecstasy
At the dentist I needed a root filling done (4 roots on one tooth????) and he injected me a few times, waited for me to be numb and then drilled out the old filling which was fine. He then started using what looked like a barbed needle to pull the "dead" root out of each chamber. 1st one was fine, 2nd one felt like somebody had poked my mouth with a red hot poker. I had never felt pain like it before and I actually swore, went pale as a sheet.
The dentist said "oops, that one must still be alive, I'll inject directly into it to kill it. That hurt just as bad again and the pain, although greatly reduced, was still there as he fished it out with his barbed hook.
So anybody telling me root work is painless is a liar.
I can tell you your dentist did not do a good job numbing your tooth. If you are going to give somebody a root canal you obviously need to numb the roots properly!
In other words, RC work is not meant to hurt, if it hurt you then your dentist didn't do a good job numbing your tooth.
All I was saying is that I've had 4 different instances where anaesthetic was used but the pain was still there, hence the line "I've never not had pain".
My mrs has had RC under anaesthetic twice, with 2 different practices and it still hurts.
So they aren't doing their job properly?
My mrs has had RC under anaesthetic twice, with 2 different practices and it still hurts.
So they aren't doing their job properly?
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Not meant too but he had xrayed it and said the roots were all dead. Obviously one of them was still alive.
Anyway, he jabbed my gum, both sides loads of times and I couldn't even talk properly but it still hurt like hell when he hit the live root.
And the pain of him injecting the live root was just as bad.
There are pains and pains. Having intense pain during the RC is not acceptable, it's a matter of dentist. Having pain after the RC could be down to all sorts of issues and not due to the RCs job - although if you do it on the NHS where they tend to do 3-4 root molars root canals in one visit then you are in for lots of trouble.
Btw, I'm not a dentist but I've had about 6 root canals in a variety of dentists and I have plenty of experience with good and bad dentists.
Not meant too but he had xrayed it and said the roots were all dead. Obviously one of them was still alive.
Anyway, he jabbed my gum, both sides loads of times and I couldn't even talk properly but it still hurt like hell when he hit the live root.
And the pain of him injecting the live root was just as bad.
Injecting a live root is going to hurt like hell, of course. I strongly believe that having pain during RC is down to inadequate dental training on your dentists behalf. They may be good with everything but they just don't know how to jab your correctly.
Well I kept not reading that 'not' bit of your original post, thinking you were writing that you never had any pain. So that was a mistake on my behalf.
Unfortunately there are too many bad dentists out there, just way too many of which I've met a good share.
I have had a root canal and the only pain I had was my jaw being open for so long. Just as it was getting excruciating, my dentist decided to stick some pins in my tooth, told me not to close my mouth, and took me for an x-ray! 
I still hate him for that! He could have let me close my mouth for a moment before sticking the pins in and going ahead with the x-ray.
He is a dab hand at the ole anesthetic though. ******* jabbed me once just to reglue an inlay back in. Numb mouth for hours, drooling like a retard, and the dentist didn't even so much as touch his drill.
Why haven't we invented a way of coating our teeth with Teflon yet?
I still hate him for that! He could have let me close my mouth for a moment before sticking the pins in and going ahead with the x-ray.
He is a dab hand at the ole anesthetic though. ******* jabbed me once just to reglue an inlay back in. Numb mouth for hours, drooling like a retard, and the dentist didn't even so much as touch his drill.
Why haven't we invented a way of coating our teeth with Teflon yet?
I have had a root canal done before and it didn't hurt at all. But in my case the infected molar was quite long gone so there was no nerve and the tooth was dead. However the root canal process meant that i had a very big filling in the tooth afterwards and because the tooth was more brittle from being dead it eventually cracked and had to be extracted.
I decided straight away to replace the molar with an implant. So the tooth was extracted by an implant specialist dentist and after a few weeks left to heal, the implant was done.
that was a couple of years ago now. It cost around £2k private ( i don't know if you can get implants under nhs) but it was money well spent. I honestly can't tell the difference between the implant and my other teeth.
I decided straight away to replace the molar with an implant. So the tooth was extracted by an implant specialist dentist and after a few weeks left to heal, the implant was done.
that was a couple of years ago now. It cost around £2k private ( i don't know if you can get implants under nhs) but it was money well spent. I honestly can't tell the difference between the implant and my other teeth.