Posted: 11/1/2012 6:34:54 PM EDT
| Scheduled for one in 2 weeks. What am I in for? Should I take a sick day from work that day? |
Just had one done in Sept. Decay below the gum line, and root was necrotic, but not infected. Temporary Crown for a few weeks, then crown lengthening yesterday. Permanent crown in 5 weeks. No pain through both procedures. Local anesthetic, in and out of both in an hour. Could have worked both days. Vicoprofen 7.5/200mg is very good. You will be fine. I was in more intense pain before the root canal than anything. 
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| Had both of my buck teeth done at 15. It's no big deal, just some minor discomfort as previously stated. They dope you up real good, or at least my doc did. I saw black spots floating across the ceiling and they ushered me out through the back door they were so embarrassed at it. |
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I've had 2...or 3 depending on how you look at it...
My first was a breeze. My second was done incompletely and incorrectly. Lots of drama with the first dentist, emergency room trip, expensive and painful endodontist re-treatment. Best part? The tooth that had 2 root canals might now need to be pulled and replaced with implant or bridge. Good luck OP!! 
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Scheduled for one in 2 weeks. What am I in for? Should I take a sick day from work that day? General dentist or endodontist? Reason I ask is it is worth going to a specialist for the procedure. ETA wife is office manager and use to work for endodontist doc, he fixed a lot of general dentists fuck ups. No pics of wife |
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It will depend on your dentist.
I'm lucky in that I've got an incredibly talented one. I've had at least 3 root canals. Never a problem with any of them. In fact, I actually fell asleep in the chair while he was working. I wouldn't worry about it at all. Good luck! |
With the last one I went back to work when it was done. I wish I would've pulled the tooth. All that happens now is food gets impacted in the gum between the next tooth and the crown. I usually end up using gum to pull shit back out because it's under the gum and floss won't reach it. Missing a tooth would be better then the constant discomfort after meals. 
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| +1 on the specialist. General Dentistry(consultation/x-ray), Endodontics(root canal), Periodontics(crown lengthening) in that order for me. I've got great Dental insurance through my job. If it wasn't for that, I couldn't have had everything done in a short amount of time. |
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Not to scare you...but...
Mine hurt like hell...ground off the top of my tooth and shoved a needle down it... But the infected tooth hurt even more...Vicodin? That stuff didn't do jack shit  Had to chew ice constantly...
Man that fuckin hurt
It's something you gotta do though if your tooth is that bad
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In a nut shell, a root canal is when the dentist removes the nerves (pulp) in your tooth, then back fills it with a synthetic material and puts in a filling or a crown.
There are a million things that could cause you to have pain afterward but in a normal scenario, you should be just fine. Reason is, your tooth is now essentially dead and no longer feels anything. However, sometimes the Endodontist could extrude a little too much of the material and it goes out passed the apical foramen (the hole at the tip of your root where the nerves come in from the bone) and it then goes down into the bone. I had a good buddy who got a root canal while I was working in the dental clinic in the hospital. The next morning, he came back in and was in TERRIBLE pain. Just a millimeter or 2 of the material went out through the foramen and was inside of his bone causing irritation. Anyway, most likely you are going to be just fine. A root canal is a pretty precise procedure and there's a lot that can cause pain with just the slightest excess or insufficiency. These things are always easily fixed but can cause pain until they are. If you do have complications and end up in pain, you are most likely NOT going to feel it until the next day. You will be numb for many hours afterward and it may take your body awhile to start adjusting and responding to any irritations. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Scheduled for one in 2 weeks. What am I in for? Should I take a sick day from work that day? General dentist or endodontist? Reason I ask is it is worth going to a specialist for the procedure. ETA wife is office manager and use to work for endodontist doc, he fixed a lot of general dentists fuck ups. No pics of wife Pay attention to this. My first 2 root canals and crowns were almost 20k after having to have a specialist fix it. Got to the right guy with the right tools for the job. In this case, an endodontist. I got my money back from the original dentist, but I learned the hard way.
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I've had three. If the doc knows what he or she is doing you should be good to go. I ended up breaking two of the three within a year of having them done, so that sort of sucked. I cracked the roots and lets just say that shit hurts.
After my second one was roto rooter-ed, I felt like I had been punched in the face by Mike Tyson. I was on Vicodin for about a week after that one, but the first and third one were pretty much pain free. 
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Quoted: Might not be a big deal and you'll be right back at work with no problem. It might suck, bad. But an infected root will suck right into the next galaxy. True story, there. I've had an infected root years ago at the beginning of the weekend, and no one was open on saturdays. I spent the whole weekend miserable and praying for death while waiting for dental sick call monday morning. |