Root canal problem!!!!?

Question

over 4 years ago i got a root canal on my front tooth after i hit it from falling off a bike. Today i woke up and for the first time since i got it done the tooth was killing me. The tooth has been a strange color for a while, which my dentist told me i could bleach. Today i am in pain and the tooth is looser than all of my other teeth. what could be the problem?

Answer 1

If the tooth was not crowned, its is probably fractured since you have mobility, sorry to say it will have to be pulled and your options are implant, bridge, maryland bridge or a flipper till you decide. Hope I'm wrong, but pain and movement are signs of fracture.

Answer 2

I am a dentist and I will try to answer your question. There are multiple possiblilities as to what is happening. One, the root canal was done poorly,(which i'm pretty sure is not the case since it lasted 4 years with success rate of root canals being 92%) Another more probable possiblity is leakage of the filling into the root canal filling causing a reinfection. The strange color is from the tooth being dead after the root canal and not having any blood supply from within the tooth which is normal.. This is fixable with internal bleaching meaning not your typical bleaching, your dentist can explain. It is also fixable with a cap or crown on the tooth. The looseness is probably due to an abscess with the reinfection around the root causing your tooth to be loose. It could also be due to gum disease. I would need to look at you and your x-rays to make sure how much bone you have around your tooth, so I advise going to your dentist. If you have swelling, you will need some antibiotics. You are probably looking at either redoing your root canal or you have to have the tooth pulled (which is not really pulling the teeth, it is more of a pushing motion which is neither here nor there) I hope this helps

Answer 3

well, Andrew, as you have a front tooth treated you only have one canal, the dentist will have done his best to get to the tip of the root, but he may have left the tiniest fragment in which could be infected. You would need a course of anti biotics and possibly an apicectomy which is a root filling from the tip of your tooth so a flap would have to be raised and done this way, a minor operation of which can be done under local anaes. The problem with your tooth being loose could be the fact that since you have no nerve left your bone could start disintegrating, there fore resulting in bone loss around the area of your tooth and it feeling loose. For the pain take an ibuprofen tablet and see your dentist as soon as you can. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

It seems like the root canal still has a nerve left. Sometimes when a root canal is done the dentist only takes one nerve out ,not all of them so maybe that's why you have the signs of an infection. Call your Dentist ASAP as you may have an infection and if you do, you will need antibiotics until further dental work can be done.Also maybe your crown is lose which would cause pain but no infection, either way you need to go to your Dentist.
Good Luck!.

Answer 5

Sometimes new trauma,deep decay or a loose,cracked or broken filling can cause new infection in your tooth. Endodontic surgery may be able to save the tooth.They usually do a procedure called a apicoectomy or root resection.A small incison is made in the gum tissue near the tooth to expose the bone and infected tissue. The infected tissue is removed and the tip of the root is also removed.Sometimes a small filling is placed to seal the root canal.

Answer 6

The root canal has probaly failed. The looseness is either due to infection and subsequent bone loss or from outright bone loss and severe periodontal disease.

Answer 7

sounds like a cavity to me. I'd call the dentist.