r/Toothfully

I have maximiliary sinusitis. It has been continuing for months without me knowing anything about it. I have a throbbing pain, a big one. Affecting all my life. Can't use strong painkillers due to stomach issues. Thought it is dental related, extracted two teeth today, I demanded hopelessly because I was in a big pain. I never had nose issues or any drip, occasionally got some bad smell came out from my nostrils though. In the teeth, they saw some possible connection in CBCT. They had some lesions. Renewing root canals didn't help before. Their roots were completely inside of the sinus. In one, two root canal renewals were done and during one, the doctor had told me that there is an unfilled canal over there a few months ago. Basically it was inside of the sinus, unfinished. He filled it but it didn't help me at all. They saw sinusitis around the extraction area in CBCT and extracted the two of them. When the doctor pressures or when I touch there with my tongue, the furthest area which is next to these two teeth where the former buried wisdom tooth is removed for improvements (Which also didn't help me) I feel some strong pain. The doctor said it might be because of infection. I feel like the extractions won't help me (it happened today). I even had some strong pain despite the anesthetic needles, the area was throbbing. Was it a mistake? The doctor told me that he can't give you guarantee but if it is only dental related, I should give it for two weeks. There is no difference in the pattern of the pain. I feel very desperate, hopeless. I don't know what to expect anymore but my life turned into hell due to this pain... I feel like I will never be normal. Is there any chance that this will get better with this? I was feeling increased pain when I squeeze my cheek, I still do, a lot more after the surgery. Am I expecting a lot from day one, or was it really a mistake? I am very depressed and tend to think it's the second one.

Location: Texas

Today I went in to a dentist appointment to have a wisdom tooth extracted. They prescribed two 0.25mg triazolam pills to take an hour before the extraction in the waiting room. They said it was supposed to relax me to make it easier for them to perform the extraction.

Once the medication kicked in they brought me to the operating room and had me lie down and gave me one of those little nose masks with oxygen and when the dentist came in he said he was adding nitrous to the oxygen to help and then injected a local anesthetic in my gum by the tooth and immediately started shoving stuff in my mouth and scraping at my gum. I said "that hurts" so he gave me a second injection around the gum and left the room. The nurse or PA or whatever she was waited a few minutes and then started shoving crap in my mouth again and asked me if I could feel it. I said I could feel poking and it hurt a little but not too bad and then she left the room for a moment and came back and told me that they can't do the extraction because "the anesthetic isn't working" before having me get up and taking me back to the waiting room to receive a referral for an oral surgeon that was going to charge me $1200 to remove the tooth.

When I was in the waiting room with my wife I asked one of the receptionists about a refund because they charged me about $480 for the whole thing after insurance and they said they were going to refund me $80 for the extraction but not the $400 for the anesthetic. They said I was in the room for an hour so there's nothing they can do about the $400. I left with my wife because I was kind of in shock about the whole situation but decided to call them while my wife was driving me home. When I called about the refund they put me on the phone with someone who was supposed to be in charge of the finances or something and they kept saying they couldn't refund me for the anesthetic and when I'd insist and make a point of "I don't know how you can tell me you can't extract because the anesthetic didn't work but still charge me $400 for the anesthetic." they put me on hold for a few minutes and came back with a much more patronizing attitude telling me that I need to give the phone to my wife or call back in 24 hours because I was still anesthetized and they said they wouldn't talk to me while I was anesthetized. I insisted that I was very lucid, just a little relaxed from the triazolam but they insisted that I was still anesthetized and they wouldn't speak to me.

After my wife and I arrived home I asked her to call them since they were refusing to speak to me because I was "anesthetized" and she did and tried to make all the same points I did and they basically just brushed her off and told her they'd get back to her in 48 hours.

I would like to add to all of this that while I was getting frustrated, I was polite through all of these interactions. I never got ornery or aggressive or mean.

Is there anything I can do about this? I know a lot of people might not think $400 is a lot but I'm a day laborer and that's about a third of my bi-weekly pay. It's not a cost I can just eat.

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

What does the bone removal part mean and what does that entail? Why do they have to remove the bone? I could get a crown or get an extraction and im kind of afraid to do either.

I’m a 51 yr old female. I had an infected failed root canal extracted 5 weeks ago for #19. On the other side I have nerve damage in the mental nerve/chin area with chronic swelling, burning and it’s triggered by pressure on the front teeth on that side and touch to the gum tissue along that area. It was from a break from a really bad car accident. 17 yrs ago. Still have ptsd. I was sedated for the extraction on 19. I also had a bone graft at the same time. I woke up and the other with the nerve damage was so bad, it hasn’t hurt that bad since the initial surgery to the break. I don’t know what happened but they didn’t even touch that side. It eventually calmed down to almost baseline but not quite. I need to get a root canal on that same side. I was told the tooth was cracked. I forgot which tooth it is, think it’s a premolar but it’s just outside of the nerve damaged area. I’m scared to get more work done. Is there anything to be concerned about? Also 5 weeks ago when I got 19 extracted and the bone graft, I had neck tension really bad and it’s gotten better but still hurts and at times my ear hurts, also still get pain along the jaw and had continuous burning in my chin and mental nerve area on the extraction side for the first few weeks and not it’s intermittent throughout the day. Some days I think I’m finally healing but then it flares again. Also seem to have tenderness in my neck just a couple inches below my ear. The first couple weeks it felt like a not or swollen gland but the swelling seems to have gone down a bit but still hurts and it’s all made my tinnitus worse. Any guidance would be appreciated. Oral surgeon just gaslights me saying everything looks fine and maybe it’s my age, or maybe I have a condition that keeps me from healing, or maybe d I just have migraines. Nothing to try to help me. He’s given me steroids for a week and 2 different antibiotics but that was in the first few weeks.

One of my front teeth (right side), got broken in a bike accident 11 years ago. I was 8 years old at the time, and got it filled since the original dentist didn’t want to put a crown.
Now I’m 19, and the filling got very dark. I went to a dentist, she showed me pictures of results of front tooth crowns, and they looked amazing!
So I get the tooth filed, and the temp (awful).
Ok, I wait the two weeks. My teeth are pretty white, but translucent…the permanent crown looked like Benjamin Moore’s super white (or like a shiny white plate). Zero translucency, zero lifelikeness, simply horrifying…oh and shape as off! I of course refused to take it (didn’t pay a cent), and refused to use the same lab for the redo. I went to an in person lab, and got matched for another crown today. Should I even keep the same dentist?
I am losing hope, it’s my front tooth and I have a SUPER important event the first week of November.
If you have any recommendations for dentists or prosthodontics in CT (Fairfield County) please let me know.
I obviously picked a bad dentist who can’t coordinate their lab.
I just need a crown that doesn’t look like it’s so fake next to my teeth (the current dentist has offered to do it free of charge because I was so distraught and shocked today)
I’m really desperate, I can’t be having temporary crowns forever and just hopping from one bad permanent to another.
Please tell me what should I do.

Back in May, I had gotten six cavities filled. On the seventh one, I was able to feel the drilling. Hot and painful, and they had to stop. I was scared, I started to cry, they told me that this would make it worse. I was left with a hole in my tooth.
I had gone back in September to get the final two filled, one worked, but I could still feel the hot, painful drilling, but only a tad. The hole is still open, as they refuse to fill it because they stated I have “dental anxiety” and should “go see my physician about getting medication.” before they drill and fill the final one due to its size.
I am going to another office to get an examination soon, and I hope they can fill my final cavity. I also hope that I did truly have eight cavities and haven’t been dealing with this for no reason.
I am not sure if it’s the liquid pain killer that doesn’t work, or if it is truly a case of nerves. I need to get this cavity, the hole, filled. Is there anything I can do to help this situation?

Hi y’all, I recently had a molar extraction of my tooth #31 on my lower right side of my teeth - from an unfinished root canal from some years ago. Since then I’ve been in immense depression, spiraling, anxiety in terms of returning back to getting a sense of normalcy. My dentist told me it can heal within 1-2 weeks, however today marks a week that I’ve gotten the extraction (done on October 1st) and I can’t open my mouth the whole way still, still can’t talk too much, still a bit swollen, and only eating liquid foods. I’m planning to stay on a liquid diet for about 2 weeks even though my dentist said I don’t need to, because of my anxiety of getting dry s__. I went this past Tuesday October 6th to get it checked and my dentist said only part of my clot is there / it is low, no dry s___ but still a chance of getting it. It’s looked the same for the past few days, a low jelly dark red color but not turning to white/yellow in the healing phase. When they checked at the dentist however they said it looked fine and even took an xray and didn’t find anything. I still get pain on my jaw at night and had some extra saliva as well.

I want to know if I should go back to the dentist to get it rechecked within the week if it doesn’t look like it’s healing?

Should I stay on liquid diet for 2-3 weeks or return to soft food? What foods would you recommend? She said I can return to hard/crunchy foods in 2 weeks along with straws but I don’t feel too comfortable with that. She also said I can eat on extraction site when it heals, in about 2 weeks but I’ve seen some things about taking 3-6 months to fully heal and saw a story about getting rice stuck 2 months later and having to start the process all over again. Im not sure if i should even eat rice for thanksgiving which would be in about 7 weeks.

Thoughts? Thank you in advance.

In early September I had a root canal. It was for one tooth (upper back molar) and prior to that I was in severe pain. I would wake with pain that would radiate down my jaw and through my teeth on that side.

Root canal solved the pain problem. I felt amazing even with the temporary filling.

Two weeks later I go to my dentist and get a temporary crown. I actually get 2 crowns because the tooth next door to the root canal needed one as well. After the temp crowns are in place I notice a few days later I’m in mild pain. It’s not waking me up or anything but it’s definitely noticeable.

A week after the temp crown I get my permanent crowns. This is kind of a rough procedure because the temps wouldn’t come off and they had to numb me multiple times. That was Monday - today is Thursday and my pain is increasing. It’s not waking or pulsing but it’s definitely requiring round-the-clock ibuprofen. Any ideas? Is this normal?