Hi sadie,
I have re read all of your posts here regarding your two root canaled teeth. I think there may have been other things going on with these two teeth in addition to the one having an ill fitting cerec crown and the other having some decay underneath the old gold crown. You have not posted any x-rays so I can only go by your descriptions.
It is not unusual for people to be unaware of problems with their teeth. Especially if the problems were silently brewing. For example.... decay underneath a crown will often have slight to no symptoms until the decay has reached the pulp or the area swells up. Other examples would be a fractured tooth or a periodontal problem with little to no symptoms.
Also any time a tooth is drilled into, there is a risk of traumatizing the nerve resulting in infection and death of the nerve. The teeth/nerves then need time to heal and calm down. Having a crown preparation done and then shortly there after having the insult of a root canal done to that same tooth causes tremendous inflammation within that tooth, with the attached ligament and with the cells around that tooth. It also causes stress on the TMJ from all the pressure being applied to the jaw during both procedures.
It is important to keep in mind that in spite of <<some>> of the nerve tissue being removed during the rc procedure, there are countless other tiny canals that will continue to contain nerve tissue. This nerve tissue dies very quickly once the blood supply is cut off. These nerves do not dissipate or vaporize... they become diseased causing additional inflammation. Sometimes the symptoms or radio-graphic pathology of this disease process is not truly evident until the infection is severe.
That guitar string plucking thing you feel in your lower jaw could be tight ligaments ... could be spasm in the muscle..... could be a secondary inflammation from the irritation that is currently brewing with both of those teeth.
Is the gum area still sore and swollen where the periodontist curettage the other day?
Bryanna
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Originally Posted by sadie682
Now I am feeling my second, most recent (two week old) root canal start to swell up. It's sensitive to touch (I haven't bitten on that side of my mouth in months, but I assume that would be painful) and seems to be feeling the same sort of pressure I felt in the first failed root canal 9 months ago (like a pressure cooker). I was hoping the second one would remain calm at least long enough for me to deal with the first one. Meanwhile, the whole left side of my face is numb from what I suppose is TMJ. FWIW, I've switched to a soft food diet in the hope that my jaw will start to heal as well.
Very disheartening evening. No idea what to do next. Just want my face to feel again, and my tooth not to feel. Wondering if this chord plucking feeling in my jaw is the periodontal ligament and if it comes out with the tooth.
/rant
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