Dear Bryanna,
Thank you so much for you answer.
I talked to my dentist before I saw the answer from you and he told me to wait and see, he said that because I donīt have a pain when I "knock" on the tooth it is not an infection. I have pain but the pain is like someone has been trying to pull the tooth out of my mouth, some kind of an irritation that leads to my chin. The dentist wants to do some kind of a root operation if the pan does not go away...My other teeth that have got holes in them, they will be fixed, I just have not had that done, I am afraid as well. Do you think I should see another dentist and is it , like you said, the infection could be there although I donīt hava a pain when I knock on my tooth with my fingers?
Thank you again.
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Originally Posted by Bryanna
Hi annikasamper,
The problem is that once a tooth becomes infected or it is root canaled, the tooth remains infected. Some rc teeth hurt and others won't because if a tooth has made a path in the bone for the bacteria to drain, the inflammation will be temporarily reduced which means less physical pain ...until the path closes over. A draining infection is serious and does not alter the fact that the tooth remains infected. It does not matter how many times a tooth is root canaled... or how many times the rc tooth is crowned.... or what it used to disinfect it..... or what the canals are sealed with... or how many times an apicoectomy is done.... the only way to cure the infection is to remove the source of the infection which is the tooth.
Dental infections may not show up on an xray until they are large enough or pronounced enough to be picked up on the 2 dimensional film. So by the time a dentist sees it on the xray, the infection has already been present for quite some time.
There really is no way to "open a crown" to evaluate a tooth. Yes, some dentists will drill into the biting surface of a crown in an attempt to gain access to the large canals and perform a root canal. However, the view is minimal at best and there is never any access to the tiny canals that will continue to harbor infected nerve tissue. Cutting into a crown will ruin the integrity of it and compromise the stability of the crown. The bacteria and germs from doing the root canal cannot be completely removed from underneath that crown after the procedure and this is one reason why people often end up with a decay underneath the crown of a root canaled tooth.
Do you have a treatment plan with your dentist that includes all of your teeth?? Because it sounds like you have several dental problems and your dentist may be just patching you up here and there. It is not ideal to be patched up because not only will there always be issues with the patch up but the other problem teeth will eventually hurt too.
Bryanna
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