Post by uksue on Jul 11, 2014 17:52:11 GMT
Those of you who are friends with me on facebook know that I have had a pretty lousy time with my teeth the last few weeks. To cut a very long story short, a replacement of a crown turned into the dentist breaking my tooth below the gum line, advising me to have it removed due to poor stats of me being helped by root canal treatment ( which a second dentist refuted this week) and she also broke the tooth next to the one she attempted but failed to remove on the 30th June. I remember her topping up my mouth during the hour she tried to remove the broken tooth . I have been in almost constant pain since then, until early hours of this morning. I have an appointment for removal of the tooth on 5th August with an impacted wisdom tooth ( lucky lucky me!) under sedation . This will be by a different Dentist who is a consultant rather than a bog standard family NHS dentist.she gets all the complicated cases locally referred to her.
I have two questions. I have realised today that the side of my tongue on the affected side of my mouth is completely numb. To the point I keep biting it. I don't know whether this is due to the novacaine or whatever they use to numb your gum, or could it be nerve damage?
I have been warned that removal of the broken tooth is going to be very difficult as it has a divided root that is enmeshed with the tooth next to it, and that removal of my wisdom tooth will require removal of some bone ( it is a lower tooth) and that I could also suffer nerve damage there. Plus I have arthritis in my jaw and can't open very wide - she doesn't know if she can even get the wisdom tooth out.
can any dental peas give me any more info on the risk of nerve damage but also- how on earth do they divide this root to get it out- without losing the healthy ( well it was!) tooth next to it? If I lose both it will be very visible when I smile.
I hate dental treatment !
I have two questions. I have realised today that the side of my tongue on the affected side of my mouth is completely numb. To the point I keep biting it. I don't know whether this is due to the novacaine or whatever they use to numb your gum, or could it be nerve damage?
I have been warned that removal of the broken tooth is going to be very difficult as it has a divided root that is enmeshed with the tooth next to it, and that removal of my wisdom tooth will require removal of some bone ( it is a lower tooth) and that I could also suffer nerve damage there. Plus I have arthritis in my jaw and can't open very wide - she doesn't know if she can even get the wisdom tooth out.
can any dental peas give me any more info on the risk of nerve damage but also- how on earth do they divide this root to get it out- without losing the healthy ( well it was!) tooth next to it? If I lose both it will be very visible when I smile.
I hate dental treatment !
