I’ve needed this tooth pulled for 7 years and have severe anxiety. I’m going tomorrow and I’m terrified and may just not show up. I’m getting out to sleep and it should be super quick. I don’t do well with anything medical and have vasovagal. They said I can’t take klonopin before bc of the iv meds. Please help me feel better! It’s my front canine to the left front
Weird trend on Tik Tok and Instagram dentistry…young inexperienced dental practice owners talking like they have owned a practice for more than 10 years.
Hi: I have a new dentist. The technician of many years quit (who was excellent.) A dental assistant (as far as I know) took her place and her judgement is bad for one. The temporary she chose and placed is blueish, placed at an angle so it looks like I need braces, and it’s shorter than my surrounding teeth. No big, right? It’s temporary. But she took an impression for my crown that’s IN FRONT, then redid it, and I’m realizing I don’t trust her to have done a good job. How should I handle this to make sure the crown isn’t up to par—ill fitting or whatever else can go wrong from a poorly made impression? Should I ask about her credentials or show them the temporary and express my hesitation about her role in this procedure?
Also, there was sharp pain in the hour after the prep for the crown, more pain than I’ve experienced in the last 20 years of going to a dentist, more pain than any root canal or implant caused. My gums still feel rough there behind the temporary. When I asked the assistant what this pain was she said probably not enough novacaine. Also, I’ve never experienced such a sharp pain as when the dentist put the nocacaine in. Is this because it’s in front and/or because I had a root canal there a week ago? The root canal, done by an endodontist, was painless. Totally. What is going on? Two incompetent professionals?
I did RCT of 2nd upper molar 1 year ago, it was going good, no pain. But recently I noticed a bump on the gum right above that teeth if I pressed, it would pain. Now little bit of history is that food used to stuck between the contact of that RCT teeth and other molar and I would pick it with finger(which did eventually caused trauma) and i had visited same dental previously and he said its Gum trauma and suggested some toothpaste(and floss as well and it went good), now, this time I went to dental today, and he just poked it with some tool(some blood flew) and said its "Tooth infection" and I need to take antibiotics and come back after 3 days to open the Crown, we will let infection settle and place back the crown.
Although my dental is very old, he has experience above 25+ years but I am not sure if what he said is right or not.
Currently that inflammation is not that much visible after he poked, little blood did release(I had no pain or anything). Currently I dont have any pain either.
I'm bit worried if he is going to do RE-RCT as its molar teeth and not sure if RE-RCT will fail eventually?
Any thoughts