So, here comes a rant. I’m 19 years old and for the last 3-5 years I have been neglecting my teeth, a lot… 2 years ago I went for a check-up for the first time in a while & they told me I have 10! cavities. The doctor filled some of them (cannot remember exactly how many) & said that the remaining ones were not yet too far gone. For some months I started to care properly & on the next check-up (now 1.5 year ago) he said he was surprised how well it turned out & that I should keep doing what I do, and it should be fine. But as stupid as I am I started to neglect is again slowly overtime, brushing only a few times a week etc. Didn’t have much problems so I didn’t think much of it. Eventually started to have sensitive teeth (hot/cold), annoying but not that bad. Recently I started to realize that it’s not okay what I have been doing & that was confirmed a few days ago. I have a very bad constant pulsating tooth ache in the whole left side of my mouth. I googled a bit and I’m pretty sure that only nerve/root canal issue matches my symptomps. So probably they will have to remove the nerve or do a root canal treatment from whqt I understand. So I will be 19 with a dead teeth already… so it will probably break off or need to be removed at some point in the middle of my life. I just now started to realize how serious dental care is & obviously started to have a lot of regret. I’m terribly afraid of the dental appointment I will have tomorrow & even more about the other teeth…
If this one is already that bad, after almost everything being fixed 1-2 years ago, I wonder what else will happen with the rest of my teeth…
Basically my question is, how bad does my situation look? Could I likely still save the rest of my teeth?
And additionally does anyone else have similar experience as this age? It makes me feel really shit to think about it, I don’t know why but teeth issues scare me way more than other health else I had before…