[kimsmithie]

My name is Kim and I am new here and glad I found this site. I did post on a thread roots in the sinus cavity so there is more to my story there.

After looking around here I am questioning the possibility that I might have NICO?

So, I had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled out in 93 and there were issues with dry socket and bone fragments coming through the surface but got better eventually.

in 99 I had tooth 31 worked on, it had a filling in it and the dentist was trying to remove the old silver fillings and replace with white and once he made the change the tooth went bad real quick and I had a root canal done and a crown. A few years later in 2004 I had tooth pain and an abscess and had to have that tooth pulled. After I had that tooth pulled I was still having issues so I went back and they did the RC on tooth 30. This tooth had a fracture at the time of the RC, of course they said lets got for it anyway, now I see this was probably not the best idea. I let that tooth sit for a year mostly due to money and had some pain in the area the whole time but just dealt with it. But soon I could not deal with it any longer so I went to the dentist.

Now today I had that tooth removed, of course after trying to have the crown put on that did not work. The tooth area developed dry socket and now is not healing well and need to be re-done. I have horrible pain in my mouth and jaw as well as my eye and ear and headaches. I feel like there is a phantom tooth issue going on here as it feels like the site where the tooth was is where it hurts. I never felt good after the tooth 31 was pulled and the RC on tooth 30... what do you think? I am going to bring this up, I see it is not always seen on an x-ray and hard to diagnosis. =(

I wanted to add I have a severe clenching issue and have been diagnosed with TMJ...I believe I have broken the teeth with this clenching issue and I am just breaking the other teeth I have left...

Thanks so much,

Kim

[Bryanna]

Hi kim,

Oh boy.... it is not uncommon to develop NICO from the extraction of a wisdom tooth (or other molar) that post operatively developed a dry socket. If the dry socket is not treated quickly and properly, the jawbone tends to not heal completely. This lack of healing can also happen if the patient has a compromised immune system.

With tooth #31... chances are you had a large silver filling in it and there was bacteria getting in underneath (typical of silver colored fillings because they corrode around the edges of the filling). Changing the old filling for a new one wasn't the problem, it was what had already occured when the old filling was present. Sometimes all it takes is for a deep cavity to be exposed to air and it proliferates.... sometimes the silver colored filling causes cracks in the teeth which cannot be seen very easily and the trauma to the tooth from the drill cause these cracks to open up even more. Many things could have contributed to that tooth going bad....... even the dry socket from the wisdom tooth extraction could have caused infection to spread to that tooth.

Tooth #30..... again, the original problem could have been related to decay or a fracture or the dry socket from #32.

Unfortuntely, traditional dentistry falls very short when it comes to diagnosing jaw bone deterioration. Unless they can see it blatantly on an xray, they don't believe it exists. Ironically, dental xrays are only 2 dimentional and leave alot of undiscovered pathology. Common sense tells us that when you've removed one tooth and a problem occured in the bone... then the next tooth goes bad .... then the next tooth same thing...... something is just not right.

As I said before, your problem could be related to several things and more than one thing at a time. It may behoove you to have a dental CT scan done to get a more vivid look at the jawbone. It may also be helpful if you sought a dentist who is familiar with NICO. One such place to try and locate such a dentist may be IAOMT.org.

I am so sorry for all that you have endured.... please don't give up on trying to get help! Let me know what you come up with after exploring the IAOMT organization.

Bryanna

Originally Posted by kimsmithie

My name is Kim and I am new here and glad I found this site. I did post on a thread roots in the sinus cavity so there is more to my story there.

After looking around here I am questioning the possibility that I might have NICO?

So, I had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled out in 93 and there were issues with dry socket and bone fragments coming through the surface but got better eventually.

in 99 I had tooth 31 worked on, it had a filling in it and the dentist was trying to remove the old silver fillings and replace with white and once he made the change the tooth went bad real quick and I had a root canal done and a crown. A few years later in 2004 I had tooth pain and an abscess and had to have that tooth pulled. After I had that tooth pulled I was still having issues so I went back and they did the RC on tooth 30. This tooth had a fracture at the time of the RC, of course they said lets got for it anyway, now I see this was probably not the best idea. I let that tooth sit for a year mostly due to money and had some pain in the area the whole time but just dealt with it. But soon I could not deal with it any longer so I went to the dentist.

Now today I had that tooth removed, of course after trying to have the crown put on that did not work. The tooth area developed dry socket and now is not healing well and need to be re-done. I have horrible pain in my mouth and jaw as well as my eye and ear and headaches. I feel like there is a phantom tooth issue going on here as it feels like the site where the tooth was is where it hurts. I never felt good after the tooth 31 was pulled and the RC on tooth 30... what do you think? I am going to bring this up, I see it is not always seen on an x-ray and hard to diagnosis. =(

I wanted to add I have a severe clenching issue and have been diagnosed with TMJ...I believe I have broken the teeth with this clenching issue and I am just breaking the other teeth I have left...

Thanks so much,

Kim