Toothache

Last year I started getting root canal on an upper left molar. It was hellish and I begged my dentist to pull it but he kept refusing and cancelling appointments etc. The tooth had a temp filling but it fell out months ago.

I put it off and off and off. I cancelled my dental plan and just forgot to register.

I was nightshift last night and it started getting sore. I went to bed at half 9 this morning and couldn't sleep for the pain. Eventually had 2 hrs kip before it woke me. I flung on some clothes and wandered to nearby dentist and begged/cried until they saw me.

Dentist took tooth out. He hadn't realisef there was a huge abcess ni had three jags in one area around the tooth and one on the roof of my mouth but the pain when he removed the tooth was horrendous but he'd started so I said to just do it. Oh. My. God. How sore was that! He said I had a huge abcess and thats why I was still in pain.

Still in agony and half my face doesn't work. Not allowed to eat til 7 tonight and I'm starving. I need food, sleep, painkillers and sympathy!

Lesson learned. Do not put off going to the dentist.

[timwilky]

Got an appointment for 2 fillings on 24th September

One is for decay under the crown and the second for decay under the huge filling alongside the crown.

So plan appears to be remove huge lump of filling that replaced good tooth years ago to give access to the area of tooth that has decayed under the crown. fill that then fill the excavation alongside.

I hate my teeth, they fracture with ease, crowns wont stay in so I no longer have them done and as a result now have 4 gaps with tooth root embedded in the gum. I wish I was rich enough to have the whole lot replaced with implants.

[maviczap]

Mucho sympathy MBK, having had major facial surgery I can empathise with your pain

I also remember my boss having to be taken to an emergency dentist when he had a golf ball sized swelling on hos face from a tooth that went bad.

[Bri w]

Loads of sympathy. And well done for surviving the 'tug' when there was problems with it. God, that must have hurt!

Thanks guys. The 'tug' was horrendous Bri. I was in tears. The 'twist and crack' was pretty horrific too!!

[JamesMio]

Can sympathise 100% dude - I had a tooth out years ago under almost exactly the same circumstances - the anaesthetic isn't anything like fully effective when there's an abcess in-situ, so it hurts like *&$% when they yank it.

I can feel myself getting goosebumps at just the thought of it again now, NEVER wish to experience that again.

Manly fist-bump atchya!

Think the dentist was impressed when I told him not to bother with another attempt and numbing it and just to go for it. In bed now, still in pain and feeling muchos sorry for myself.

Oodles of sympathy Nic, I feel your pain. Back when I was at uni I had an abscess under a molar, dentist wouldn't do feck all so went to my fave doctor and she prescribed me some strong ibuprofen...I went back to the dentist to have the offending tooth pulled and after about 5 injections I could still feel everything, I was so nervous seeing as I hate dentists So the pulling was aborted and I was told to take a temazepam an hour before my next appointment to "calm me down"...

Next appointment, temazepam taken, did it make any difference, did it chuff. A few more injections and still no joy. By this point I'd really had enough and insisted she refer me, or at last see if the hospital would give me a general...She said they probably wouldn't for just a normal root extraction...I was told they would contact me when they'd heard owt....

So still in pain I dealt with it, pain went away a few weeks later...I forgot about it. Then went in 3 months later to find out what was happening....apparently the dentist had been "trying to get hold of me"...they had a letter from the hospital stating it wasn't serious enough to warrant a general anaesthetic. by which point the nerve in my tooth had died anyway and wasn't causing me bother so I said sod it and didn't go back.

Feckin' dentists Massive hat off to you for sitting through it Nic, I just couldn't cope, I was shaking like a leaf and she was trying and getting frustrated but I couldn't go through with it. Hope you're all cosied up with the dog and feeling a bit better, best to try and forget the whole thing

[Biker Biggles]

Scotch.
you should be able to get hold of some where you are.

As is usual with me, things are a drama. Temp is normally 36.6 ish for me - it is currently 38.3 and rising. Cocodamol doing feck all for me either.

Me thinks I should have had some antibiotics. Me sad. Me not well.