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How long take you lot lived with toothache for before getting it sorted?
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GeorgeMaier
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#ii
I had terrible molar anguish and withal get it and non out of my selection, i did got to a dentist who never treated my teeth properly, leaving them to get worse.
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I'thou very aback to say I finally had my first root canal yesterday on a tooth that has hurt since the crown was put on, ii YEARS ago! My dentist kept telling me I'd take to have a root culvert, merely I just couldn't bear it! My fear and feet were likewise much so I lived with chewing on one side of my mouth only. When the cold/hot became too much to even eat soup or salad, and had me longinly looking at ice foam, I bankrupt downwardly and constitute a "gentle" endodontic dentist. I'thou and then happy I did. He actually took my anxiety seriously, I hateful, I didn't take care of this for two years, I was a committed phobic patient. Please contact me if you lot are living with pain like that. I tin can tell y'all what he helped exercise for/with me to at-home me down.
GeorgeMaier
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Thanks for all your input. I was just wondering. Im xv now, and last year i had a tooth sorted that had been pain for 8 years. It was decayed correct down into the root. Information technology was infected for a few months before information technology finally got fixed.
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I volition tolerate toothache until it becomes so excrutiating I tin can't function - tin't work, can't slumber, tin't have a waking moment without crying in agony. That's when I call the dentist. I take exposed roots and gingivitis, sometimes it gets infected, I accept had teeth break, absess, all ignored.
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#vii
As curt a time as possible! I've just ever had ane REAL toothache, from an abscess. The pain was unbearable and I was at the first dentist'due south part I could find the next twenty-four hour period. I did discover that my 'tmj' magically disappeared after I had my back teeth pulled - I'd put up with it for years considering I didn't retrieve there was anything to exist done about it.
gamergirl123
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I recollect about two very long weeks at one time. I was in so much freaking hurting, both sides, but i notwithstanding refused to go to a dentist or doctor since this was in the eye of the whole "severe dental phobia" thing. the pain was so bad that even rotating oestrus and ice PLUS rotating 2 otc hurting killers weren't really putting much of a dent in pain. Unless i was asleep, i was hurting.
Reflecting back on it, information technology had to be my stinking wisdom teeth coming in. I had those yanked with my dental work concluding year but those went since there was no saving them. iii busted at or below to gum and the other was in bad shape.
Thephilsblogbar
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Even though I don't similar going to the dentist I will go as before long every bit possible, similar I am having to do as I plant out during an urgent appointment I had to make. I had a dental appointment the calendar week before for a cleaning and checkup .I need a filling which has been causing hurting and a she volition too similar to do a small filling somewhere else.
I don't want any more root canals unless I accept to, the ane I had in 2006 was bad enough but was a different dentist and he has left the practice years ago.
I will never avert going to the dentist for checkups and I don't want to get serious dental work doing (crowns, dentures, teeth taken out) also important dental infections.
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