Root Canal

Post-Root Canal

It just doesn't end.

Here's the story: I've been having tooth pain, generally every Wednesday from 5PM–11PM for the last five months. Weird right? I thought it was stress or me grinding my teeth. But it's not and the pain hasn't gone away. In fact it's been getting progressively worse with the pain radiating out from a specific tooth to the whole left side of my mouth, basically leaving me in tears. So I went to my dentist.

After a million x-rays and some horrible, terrible, awful cold tests, the conclusion was that either a nerve was dying or the root was fractured. So I went to an endodontist and he took some x-rays and did some cold tests and confirmed that a nerve was likely dying.

I've only had one cavity in my life and that was when I was 8, so it's just frustrating for all of this to happen. I shouldn't need a gum graft or a root canal. Why is a nerve dying???? The hypothesis is trauma (BRACES).

The root canal was fine. It took like an hour – the worst parts were the smells and the sounds. They numbed me up to the point where I had no control or feeling over the left side of my mouth and half of my tongue (as depicted in the photo post-root canal.) Then they drilled, they flushed, they filled, and they sealed. Probably one of the easiest procedures I've had done. ✅  Happy Valentine's Day teeth.