Monthly Archives: Root Canal Treatment

• Do I Still Need to Have My Tooth Extracted If It Feels Fine?

  I had a tooth that really started hurting me. I am not that fond of the dentist. Translate that as terrified.  But, it eventually hurt so much that I went in. The dentist said that it was infected and then  gave me ten days of amoxicillin.  It’s been a month and that tooth still does…

• Dentist Gave Me Crowns Instead of Veneers

  I’d been talking to my dentist about porcelain veneers. Every email communication he gave me said porcelain veneers. When I went in  for the procedure, he ground my teeth down quite a bit and gave me what he called temporary veneers. After getting the permanent one, I started having  pain with my canine, but the…

• Family Pressuring Me to See Dentist

  I have a toothache. I have for a while. My parents keep telling me that I need to see the dentist. They’ve even offered to pay for it. The money isn’t the problem. My real problem is I am terrified of dentists–like throw up at the thought of going terrified. I keep telling them I’m…

• Whitening Teeth Myself

  I asked my doctor about why I couldn’t whiten my teeth using Clorox bleach and he gave me a whole litany of reasons. After he acted like I was an idiot and pretty much said so, he also added that dentists don’t use bleach like I was planning to but a peroxide bleaching gel. I…

• Dentist Only Gave Her One Option, Which Is Unethical

  I had a couple of accidents when I was in elementary school I had a couple of accidents that damaged my front tooth. Over the years it has turned an ugly brown. I want to get it fixed but my dentist said I’d need a dental implant to do that because there is not enough…

• Is a Tooth Infection Dangerous?

  I had a problem with a tooth, but I will be honest that I ignored it because I have pretty severe dental anxiety. The other day part of my molar broke off. Then, my cheek started hurting. Now the pain has wound its way around my ear and to the front of my neck. A…

• Are They Misdiagnosing a Dental Emergency?

  I broke a front tooth while on vacation about three years ago. I saw an emergency dentist who did a root canal treatment on the tooth. He did the filling part and said my dentist could do the crown when I returned home from vacation. When I did get home, my dentist removed the filling…

• Tooth Hurts and Dentist Can't Figure Out Why?

  I had an accident while I was out of town. I had an emergency emergency dental appointment that resulted from that accident because of trauma to the tooth. I had two teeth hit. One of them was broken. The other was okay. The dentist did an emergency root canal treatment on the broken tooth. When…

• Getting a Refund from a Dentist Who Made a Mistake

  I had a tooth that was slanted from thumb sucking. My dentist put a crown on it in order to fix that. A few weeks later, it became sensitive to both hot and cold. The dentist told me this was a normal condition in the first few weeks and my tooth would adjust. I was…

• Need Advice about a Tooth Extraction

  Years ago I had an infected tooth. I avoided the dentist because I have never had a good experience with one. When I could not take the pain anymore, I schedule an appointment. He said the tooth was infected and performed a root canal treatment. I was supposed to schedule a follow-up appointment for the…