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Originally Posted by Hitch
<snip> (I, too, have crap Irish-ancestry teeth, but I'm hanging on to mine through a regimen of deranged dental care at home. I'm the queen o'floss, water piks, yadda-yadda. It's silly, but...<shrug> there you go. My mother had full uppers by the time she went. Mine are actually fairly decent, BUT...it's that fanatical flossing, piking, blabbety.)
ETA: Oh, sorry, I meant to say to you, WT, that that occasionally happens to me. If it happens to you again: do you have receding gums, or perhaps pockets near a bridge? I have this one spot, where the gum isn't uber-snug up against the tooth. I have to water-pik it (and under my bridge) religiously, or a microscopic bit of food or liquid something will get caught in there, that doesn't come out with brushing, and then it will form an equally microscopic blister--that hurts like an abscess. If you water pik religiously, it keeps the particles out of there, OR, at the least, it will "pop" the wee blister, providing wonderful relief. <snip>
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I don't have a waterpic, but perhaps I should get one. I always use one of those cheap $5.00 electric toothbrushes sold at the department stores.
But I have crap
English teeth. I've always heard the English, from whom I'm descended, have the worst teeth.
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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
This happened to me before my first root canal - I had tooth pain that finally built to a level that convinced me to visit the dentist, then it would vanish, then come back, etc. When it finally stopped going away I went in - it was an abscess that developed beneath an old composite filling - which would become inflamed and then subside (probably b/c the pain made me chew on the other side of my mouth).
Moral of story: if you can afford it, get the root canal done - it will stop the pain forever, and give you one less tooth to worry about. <snip>
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I would get the root canal done if I was convinced there's a problem. Having a root canal done is no big deal to me. I would sleep right through it. It's the drilling of ordinary cavities that I don't like, although these days, the worst part is the injection of novacaine.