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Hello,
I’m new to this forum but hope someone could give me a second opinion. I have been suffering significant tooth pain for the last three days, the pain ebbs and flows throughout the day and is worse after eating and causes sleepless nights. If I tap on the top of my three bottom teeth they both produce pain.
I experienced this before (3 months ago) in the same area and visit my dentist who couldn’t see anything on the x-ray, 2 days later the pain was gone.
Today I got an emergency dental appointment with the NHS, the young dentist was very friendly and did the cold vitality test which the results I gave him confused him as they were not consistent, I could feel cold on all three teeth(it’s really hard to be accurate). He did an X-ray and can see in abscess on the root area where two tooth roots kissed. He didn’t want to do a root canal on one just in case it was the wrong one. That sounds fair enough, he told me I should take ibuprofen and co-codamol as well as some antibiotics I already had from the previous visit which I never took(flucloxicilin). What wasn’t made clear is that will this go away again, I was under the impression antibiotics can’t ‘cure’ an abscess and a extraction or root canal was necessary.
Something to note was that he nor the previous dentist could find any cavity/cause. Although I have a darkened patch on the front of the tooth which is a genetic oddity according to my regular dentist but I did mention when I visit the hygienist when the water jet is sprayed on that patch it hurts like hell.
I appreciate the fact that he didn’t want to destroy a vital tooth by mistake but should I go and see a specialist who has better diagnostic equipment? The pain is sometimes unbearable and to walk away without any treatment is dejecting.
Thanks
Paul
I’m new to this forum but hope someone could give me a second opinion. I have been suffering significant tooth pain for the last three days, the pain ebbs and flows throughout the day and is worse after eating and causes sleepless nights. If I tap on the top of my three bottom teeth they both produce pain.
I experienced this before (3 months ago) in the same area and visit my dentist who couldn’t see anything on the x-ray, 2 days later the pain was gone.
Today I got an emergency dental appointment with the NHS, the young dentist was very friendly and did the cold vitality test which the results I gave him confused him as they were not consistent, I could feel cold on all three teeth(it’s really hard to be accurate). He did an X-ray and can see in abscess on the root area where two tooth roots kissed. He didn’t want to do a root canal on one just in case it was the wrong one. That sounds fair enough, he told me I should take ibuprofen and co-codamol as well as some antibiotics I already had from the previous visit which I never took(flucloxicilin). What wasn’t made clear is that will this go away again, I was under the impression antibiotics can’t ‘cure’ an abscess and a extraction or root canal was necessary.
Something to note was that he nor the previous dentist could find any cavity/cause. Although I have a darkened patch on the front of the tooth which is a genetic oddity according to my regular dentist but I did mention when I visit the hygienist when the water jet is sprayed on that patch it hurts like hell.
I appreciate the fact that he didn’t want to destroy a vital tooth by mistake but should I go and see a specialist who has better diagnostic equipment? The pain is sometimes unbearable and to walk away without any treatment is dejecting.
Thanks
Paul
