I recently underwent root canal surgery on thursday. And my tooth is giving my alot of trouble. This morning it was very painful and and very sensative. And It started throbbing, and it is very iratating. Any ideas onto what might be wrong with my tooh, and any things I can do th ease the pain. BTW I am 13, and I was taking Morton, but that doesn't really work. PLease help me. I go back to the dentist on the 5 of october.
2006-09-24 08:00:56 · 7 answers · asked by Barack The Boat!™ 4 in Health ➔ Dental
Chances are they put a temporary filling over it. The gases are building up. Call your dentist. Most likely he'll advise you to remove the temp filling - but I am NOT a dentist -- you need to seek his/her help in this.
This is just from my own experiences. Once to one of my teeth - and the pain was horrible - and once in the middle of the night with my husband's tooth - and I had to play dentist and scrap that filling out...
Good luck - please make that phone call.
2006-09-24 08:04:38 · answer #1 · answered by Bogie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try some naproxen 500mg, 1 every 6 hours. I'm wondering since you go back Oct 5th if your dentist did not finish your root canal, if you made that appointment because of the pain, I suggest you call up your dentist and tell him it's an emergency, usually they'll reschedule other patients to get you in ASAP because of the pain, with out giving you a proper check up and with the lack of info, that is all the advice anyone can really give you. So give you dentist a call.
2006-09-24 17:49:17 · answer #2 · answered by DrDOA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's very normal for the tooth to have some discomfort 24-48 hours after the root canal. If you are still in a lot of pain tomorrow, tell your parents to call your dentist. He/she needs to look at it and see what's going on. Take some Ibuprofen and keep up on it.
2006-09-24 15:16:24 · answer #3 · answered by justine 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Call the dentist and tell them what is going on and have them get you in earlier. It sounds like all the canals have not been cleaned out all the way, or a canal was missed. It can happen sometimes. So just get back in, and they will open the tooth back up and clean it out again.
2006-09-24 15:31:15 · answer #4 · answered by IKNOWTHAT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ATTENTION mcnallycarolann, You don't get dry socket from root canal surgery. You can get dry socket after an extraction.
As for the pain, try 20% Benzocaine. You can get this at your drug store OTC.
2006-09-25 07:35:43 · answer #5 · answered by Kevin H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take 2 Tylenol every 4 to 6 hours/ for pain/ try mouth wash, use oral pain relief, to rub on your gums,that's what i am doing right now also.
2006-09-24 18:43:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you may have a dry socket- - call the dentist as soon as possible
2006-09-24 15:10:20 · answer #7 · answered by mcnallycarolann 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋