Hi Carrie,

I'm sorry to hear about your dental problems ! I really hope you can get everything sorted soon and start feeling better.

I also have problems with my teeth now that I have RSD. My teeth used to be fine and hardly every needed any treatment but now they chip all the time and can get infected pretty easily.

Since having RSD, in the space of about 3 months, I have had to have a Root Canal, Filling and a tooth extracted. I was SO scared of going to the Dentist at first as I thought it would cause the RSD to spread but figured it was better than having to deal with any additional problems.

One of my friends has suspected RSD and she has also had to have a Root Canal. Her Doctor said that all of the dental issues were linked to the RSD and that it is pretty common. I never thought of it before but it seems to make a lot of sense as RSD can mess anything up that it wants to do!!!!

When I went for the dental treatment, we told the Dentist all about RSD and asked him to read up on it. We also took an article about RSD and Dental work and it stated that RSD patients usually need double the amount of Anaesthetic than a "normal" person to try and prevent any spreading. It took 6 shots of anaesthetic for one of my teeth to go numb!!

My Dentist was very good though and read up on everything and knew what to do beforehand. If you need any dental work, I would definitely talk to your dentist about the RSD and make sure he knows what he is doing beforehand. If you look on the American RSD Hope Website, there is an article about RSD and Dentistry that you might find useful ... it is the article that we used and took to my dentist.

Take care and please keep us updated when you can! I'm sorry that you are having to deal with all of this!!