Anyone know about teeth and toothache?
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My upper left rear molar - wisdom tooth removed through overcrowding - is painful. Not acute, but chronic. It occasionally wakes me up at night and delays me getting back to sleep. It is hyper-sensitive to temperature. A deep breath, say, when out for a walk, and I get a sharp stabbing pain.
The pain occasionally migrates: along the top left jaw, down onto the left lower molars, and once the whole of the side of my jaw.
Eight weeks in, I saw a dentist. The tooth has a root canal filling, and an X-ray shows no infection. He has no idea. Put on antibiotics for no other reason than it's the only option he could think of. Waste of digestive enzymes.
Paracetamol works on the pain, but I don't want to be taking that day in and day out.
Anyone had something similar? Anything else to try? What could it be?
I had radio therapy recently - just finished - but it was at the other end of my body and according to the radiotherapist, it's extremely unlikely to have any effect in the mouth.
Otherwise, I feel good.
The pain occasionally migrates: along the top left jaw, down onto the left lower molars, and once the whole of the side of my jaw.
Eight weeks in, I saw a dentist. The tooth has a root canal filling, and an X-ray shows no infection. He has no idea. Put on antibiotics for no other reason than it's the only option he could think of. Waste of digestive enzymes.
Paracetamol works on the pain, but I don't want to be taking that day in and day out.
Anyone had something similar? Anything else to try? What could it be?
I had radio therapy recently - just finished - but it was at the other end of my body and according to the radiotherapist, it's extremely unlikely to have any effect in the mouth.
Otherwise, I feel good.
I have something similar. Cold temperature liquids, occasionally air, etc, cause a shooting pain through one tooth. I went to the dentist in case the tooth (or filling) was cracked, but he checked and x-rayed and said there was nothing to see.
He said my gums are receding due to age, and that there wasn't much that could be done about it. Suggested trying Sensodyne toothpaste, even rubbing it into the gum and leaving it, but that hasn't helped. I sort of block that tooth off with my tongue now when drinking a cold drink, that does the trick.
He said my gums are receding due to age, and that there wasn't much that could be done about it. Suggested trying Sensodyne toothpaste, even rubbing it into the gum and leaving it, but that hasn't helped. I sort of block that tooth off with my tongue now when drinking a cold drink, that does the trick.
CAPP0 said:
I have something similar. Cold temperature liquids, occasionally air, etc, cause a shooting pain through one tooth. I went to the dentist in case the tooth (or filling) was cracked, but he checked and x-rayed and said there was nothing to see.
He said my gums are receding due to age, and that there wasn't much that could be done about it. Suggested trying Sensodyne toothpaste, even rubbing it into the gum and leaving it, but that hasn't helped. I sort of block that tooth off with my tongue now when drinking a cold drink, that does the trick.
Thanks. Perhaps it is my age. Don't understand teeth. How can one without a nerve hurt?He said my gums are receding due to age, and that there wasn't much that could be done about it. Suggested trying Sensodyne toothpaste, even rubbing it into the gum and leaving it, but that hasn't helped. I sort of block that tooth off with my tongue now when drinking a cold drink, that does the trick.
I had something similar recently and dentist did x ray and said there was nothing wrong, sent me a way on a course of ibuprofen.
Went back a couple of weeks later and he prodded around and had an acute pain.
He immediately diagnosed it as galvanic shock, its where you get electrical impulses from different types of amalgam reacting together.
He swapped the filling for a resin one and problem has pretty much disappeared.
Went back a couple of weeks later and he prodded around and had an acute pain.
He immediately diagnosed it as galvanic shock, its where you get electrical impulses from different types of amalgam reacting together.
He swapped the filling for a resin one and problem has pretty much disappeared.
I had similar pain. X-ray showed no decay, they also said sensitive teeth due to receding gums from over rushing, use sensodybe etc.
In the end it got so bad I couldn't sleep was in agony. Went for an emergency root canal and the pain just disappeared instantly. What's worse I realised I had been in constant pain for months.
I was like a new person after.
I also realised that my own dentist tapped my teeth gently and it didn't hurt, during the diagnosis. The emergency dentist tapped much harder and the affected tooth was clear immediately.
Not sure if that helps you really if your dentist think's there's nothing to be done, but feels like a similar story to mine.
In the end it got so bad I couldn't sleep was in agony. Went for an emergency root canal and the pain just disappeared instantly. What's worse I realised I had been in constant pain for months.
I was like a new person after.
I also realised that my own dentist tapped my teeth gently and it didn't hurt, during the diagnosis. The emergency dentist tapped much harder and the affected tooth was clear immediately.
Not sure if that helps you really if your dentist think's there's nothing to be done, but feels like a similar story to mine.
Nothing as acute as yours but rather a very long, several years, slow increase in sensitivity in one molar. Alleviated in the early days by the dentist saying that tooth was proud of the others so getting more pressure when I bit so he ground a fraction off the top.
But in later years the pain increased dramatically to the point it was impossible to tell which tooth was the actual source. Eventually a crack was detected and a crown was recommended.
Years of occasional pain had climaxed and was rectified with the "crowning" and what a pleasure to eat and drink with my whole mouth again.
But in later years the pain increased dramatically to the point it was impossible to tell which tooth was the actual source. Eventually a crack was detected and a crown was recommended.
Years of occasional pain had climaxed and was rectified with the "crowning" and what a pleasure to eat and drink with my whole mouth again.
You can take ibuprofen for dental pain as well as paracetamol . Dosing below in the BNF.
https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drugs/ibuprofen/#indicatio...
https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drugs/ibuprofen/#indicatio...
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