Hi Everyone,
Thanks for accepting me onto the forum.
I went to my dentist today (UK) as I had a pain in one of my bottom back teeth that I knew already had a deep filling (grew up in the 70's..),
The dentist said the nerve has probably died, and took an Xray to confirm.
She stated that one side of the nerve was hardly visible, and that on one half (same half) of the tooth there is an absess under the tooth (the side where the nerve is hardly visible), she shown me this on the Xray and there was a shadow under one part of the tooth, which she said was the absess.
Dentist said she would drill into the filling and remove that section of the nerve, which she attempted.
When she finished she said she could only remove one section of nerve out of the three that are there (she said she could not find/see the rest of the nerves), and that I would have to see a specialist to get to rest of the nerve removed at a cost of around £700 - with a 70% success rate of the nerves being found and removed.
Then she said, if successful, a root canal would then be needed, and then a crown - or the alternative is have the tooth extracted, which obviously I would like to avoid.
Does all this sound about right to you educated folks?
Dentist said that most people just have the tooth removed because of financial reasons.
I can afford the payment (luckily), but I just wanted to make sure this sounds reasonable, and the treatment sounds about right? I cannot understand why she does not do a root canal immediately and remove the whole lot?
Thank you in advance.
Thanks for accepting me onto the forum.
I went to my dentist today (UK) as I had a pain in one of my bottom back teeth that I knew already had a deep filling (grew up in the 70's..),
The dentist said the nerve has probably died, and took an Xray to confirm.
She stated that one side of the nerve was hardly visible, and that on one half (same half) of the tooth there is an absess under the tooth (the side where the nerve is hardly visible), she shown me this on the Xray and there was a shadow under one part of the tooth, which she said was the absess.
Dentist said she would drill into the filling and remove that section of the nerve, which she attempted.
When she finished she said she could only remove one section of nerve out of the three that are there (she said she could not find/see the rest of the nerves), and that I would have to see a specialist to get to rest of the nerve removed at a cost of around £700 - with a 70% success rate of the nerves being found and removed.
Then she said, if successful, a root canal would then be needed, and then a crown - or the alternative is have the tooth extracted, which obviously I would like to avoid.
Does all this sound about right to you educated folks?
Dentist said that most people just have the tooth removed because of financial reasons.
I can afford the payment (luckily), but I just wanted to make sure this sounds reasonable, and the treatment sounds about right? I cannot understand why she does not do a root canal immediately and remove the whole lot?
Thank you in advance.
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