Had To Have - Page 3

77yangya · ‎06-21-2011

@chickenbutt wrote:
@Kachina624 wrote:
@77yangya Never heard of a dentist doing a root canal on useless wisdom teeth. They're normally just pulled. I think some dentist pulled a fast one on you for $$$.

This! There is just no reason to crown/root canal a wisdom tooth at all. ITA also that it was a money grab on their part.

Mine have been removed and now, as I age, I'm at the point where if they tell me one of the teeth in the back needs a root canal/crown I say to pull it.

I actually had that situation several years ago. Tooth all the way in the back on the bottom. I didn't need that one. I had had the corresponding tooth on the other end of the bottom pulled years ago (can't remember why) so now it matches. But you can't see that teeth back there are missing and they aren't really any more of a necessity than wisdom teeth.

TBH, at this point in my life, I almost wish I could just let them all go and get dentures. That would save $$$ and they'd be easier to care for. As of now, what with my hand issues, for one, my teeth cleaning regime each day is terribly painful. Not the teeth. They're well taken care of and fine. It's my hands and wrists, and on up to the neck. When I do the biggest part of the cleaning (brushing, waterpik, etc) at night I'm in extreme pain by the time I'm done.

I'm sorry about your pain too with your hand and wrists. Do you have carpel tunnel? I have that and it does hurt badly. I use wrist braces for a few days and that gets it down. You see, I had to have root canal, years ago on that tooth because it was the only tooth in the back to anchor my removable bridge on. It worked fine for years but it just wore out....

77yangya · ‎06-21-2011

Okay. It's Monday evening. EVERY bite of food I swallowed caused severe pain. This is so weird right! Anyway, I was thinking, at dinner time, okay, this is gonna be painful but it was like someone switched off a light switch. I had dinner and NO severe pain! Every time you swallow, the tongue kind of presses against the back of the mouth and it was pressing on that area. Well, all of a sudden, the severe pain is gone. I do have soreness but nothing I need to take pain killer about! WOOOPEEEEEE!!!! I feel like I hit the lottery. Only thing is, I called the surgeon's office and asked them what to do since I need pain killers round the clock. She said come in today but I said, no tomorrow, so I have a 9:00am on Tuesday. I don't really need the appointment but I'm still going. It's so odd because when the problem first started, it began SO suddenly. One second I was okay, the next, PAIN when I bit down. Now, I had the surgery on Thursday and it's Monday and one second severe pain, the next, the pain got kicked down, had dinner okay and NO pain killer since early this morning and I'm still okay! Wow, I was not aware that dental pain had such a blunt beginning and end! LOL!!!!!!

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

@77yangya wrote:
@chickenbutt wrote:
@Kachina624 wrote:
@77yangya Never heard of a dentist doing a root canal on useless wisdom teeth. They're normally just pulled. I think some dentist pulled a fast one on you for $$$.

This! There is just no reason to crown/root canal a wisdom tooth at all. ITA also that it was a money grab on their part.

Mine have been removed and now, as I age, I'm at the point where if they tell me one of the teeth in the back needs a root canal/crown I say to pull it.

I actually had that situation several years ago. Tooth all the way in the back on the bottom. I didn't need that one. I had had the corresponding tooth on the other end of the bottom pulled years ago (can't remember why) so now it matches. But you can't see that teeth back there are missing and they aren't really any more of a necessity than wisdom teeth.

TBH, at this point in my life, I almost wish I could just let them all go and get dentures. That would save $$$ and they'd be easier to care for. As of now, what with my hand issues, for one, my teeth cleaning regime each day is terribly painful. Not the teeth. They're well taken care of and fine. It's my hands and wrists, and on up to the neck. When I do the biggest part of the cleaning (brushing, waterpik, etc) at night I'm in extreme pain by the time I'm done.
I'm sorry about your pain too with your hand and wrists. Do you have carpel tunnel? I have that and it does hurt badly. I use wrist braces for a few days and that gets it down. You see, I had to have root canal, years ago on that tooth because it was the only tooth in the back to anchor my removable bridge on. It worked fine for years but it just wore out....

Ah, I see. Sorry I assumed something that was not the case.

My issue is mostly arthritis. Plus, when I broke my left arm almost 3 years ago (my good one, of course, as I'm left-handed) I'm seeing some things come of that that makes my left arm and hand worse than they were before the breaks. The arthritis in my right hand, mostly the thumb and forefinger, is worse though.

I did have a trigger thumb on my right hand for one while and that got to be excruciating so I conferred with Dr Google and fixed that myself. Glad that's gone.