Hi tammy,

Pain is in fact not a good indicator of a problem in many physical situations, teeth included. Most of the time there is little to no pain associated with a tooth problem until the infection has spread out of control. In your case the infection has already spread, the root canal procedure itself renders the tooth chronically infected and the bacteria is finding a new place to reside... so when this new area becomes overwhelmed, the pressure will build up and pain will once again be a symptom.

To help you understand the correlation between silent symptoms and the onset of disease, here are some examples of just that.....heart disease, diabetes, lupus, enlarged heart, leukemia, cancer.... etc.

To answer your other question...
<<can it cause the symptoms im experiencing in my ear and nose ? >>

Most definitely any chronic tooth infection can and will spread to other areas of the body including the brain. The mouth is very vascular and the bacteria that resides in the mouth, below the gums, in the jawbone, travels throughout the blood stream. It can be difficult to detect until it is widespread because it finds various places to hide in. Bacteria is especially good at hiding in places that are already weak or compromised. Once the immune system becomes overwhelmed with fighting the bacteria that is when it is more likely to show up in blood work.

<<<CT SCANS NEED TO BE SPECIFICALLY "DENTAL" IN ORDER TO PICK UP JAW BONE INFECTION. Doctors have taken so many xrays.. should i go for another ct scan ?>>>

Most of the time yes they need to be dental scans unless the bacteria has already traveled to the brain or some other organ.. which then the infection would be seen on any CT scan. Even a sinus scan with multiple slices might show where the bacteria has spread to. The problem with regular dental xrays is that they are only 2 dimensional which means depending on how the film is angled determines the view that is picked up on the xray. Dental xrays are typically taken straight on which leaves many views of the area unseen. Some dentists will take a bisecting angle which shows a different view of the same area, but many do not even think to do that.

You need to understand that your root canaled teeth are not healthy and they are going to be a source of chronic infection because the microscopic canals (of which there are many hundreds of them in each tooth) cannot be cleaned out. So the nerve tissue that remains in these canals became necrotic and diseased as soon as the tooth became infected or at the time of the root canal procedure, whichever happened first.

I'm sorry to give you this news, I know you do not want to lose your teeth :/ Your dentists should have informed you that your root canaled teeth will not be cured of infection and that your symptoms are typically seen and associated with root canaled teeth. As you can understand, they are most likely not about to offer you this information now since they already performed the procedure.

I am sorry ... I wish dentists offered their patients more information before performing any dental procedure.

Bryanna