I rang my girl-friend and she said, depending on the amount of bacteria it can take longer for the pain to cease.
She said, you have to imagine the bacteria continue to fart!!!
In other words they form gases, for a little while longer.
If the pain is extreme, you may open the temp. filling so air can get to it, and the gases can escape.
I said; NO WAY, I cant advise her that. But she insisted... it only needs to be small hole, and since you are returning and its only a temp filling it does no harm.
After all this "workforce" in your mouth, cleans the canal once more, and adds more medication, followed by a temporary sealing of the tooth.
You need to return in a few days, when the inflammation has subsided, (Iboprofen doesnt work for me, I like other stuff she has for me, or some anti-infamatory called Felden.) by having taken anti-inflamatory, incl. antibiotics, if it was severe.
When you return, she/he opens the tooth does more poking, and smelling. another x-ray, and final seal.
All canals have to have been poked around in! Sometimes, one of the three or four canals is calcified due to trauma to the tooth from a broken jaw years back, for instance.
So the dentist cant poke into the canal.
When the canals have been cleaned, she/he sticks needles into every canal and sends you off with your open mouth and the needles inside, to get x-rayed.
She/he needs to see if the needle/canals has reached to the bottom of the root/nerve.
Sometimes, there is more inflammation to be seen at the end of the root, and if this wasnt reached, and she/he cant get further ... Oh well then there is trouble but this is another story, and its called "root resection"
Now back on the chair, she/he will add some medication to your root canals and seal it off.
This medication tastes a bit like clover, and quietens down the tooth, and if all went well, from this moment on, you are on pain ceases ...
and you defiantly should not be home with throbbing pain
I am no Dentist, but after the root canal and I could write a book about it having been performed on me in various countries you should feel nothing!
Usually they first anesthetize the tooth, depending on which tooth, you get two or three injections.
The molars have three nerve tracts leading to them thats what my girl-friend a dentist explained, therefore three injections if the inflammation is intense.
Then they get down to the drilling, once the cavity has been opened, the inflamed nerve gets another injection right into the canal.
This kills the nerve off.
After a while, the dentist returns, and pokes into the cavity with a skinny needle.
Depending on the size of your canals, there are various thicknesses of needles.
Thrusting it down again and again, scraping the walls of the canal, she/he cleans out the remnants of the dead nerves.
Why nerves (plural)?
Every molar has three/four nerves/canals, if I remember correctly.
Front teeth have less.
So, after poking around, the dentist then smells every time at the needle, to see if it still scents of nerve tissue...
RE: Would You Want To Know
I know this is the wrong thread,but I neeeeeeeeeeeed to vent....
Obama was on the news just then,
holding a speech on stimulating the economy.
"What do you think a stimulus is?" Obama asked incredulously. "It’s spending — that's the whole point! Seriously.”
Oh....... he is just the greatest...
Can someone tell me where the
next
most active
happy
Obama thread is???
I need to go there!