Teeny
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shotter said:i can tell u another way of getting rid of the pain, get it taken out.:Chainsaw:
had some serious toothache before the bank holiday..went to the dentist and he said i have a infected or damaged nerve in my tooth..decided to get it fixed (was qouted £150), but gave me a appoitment for some time in 2 weeks..in the meantime he gave me some anti-biotics to kill the pain.
anti-biotics took the pain away untill last monday bank holiday....the pain came back and it was pain that i never want to feel again:grayno: ...as the dentist was closed i went to the emergency dentist, paid them £15 to get looked at and got the tooth taken out..my gums around the area where the tooth was taken out was a little sore for a few days, but other than that all is good.
my advice is get any toothache looked at by the dentisit....medicine is only a temporary cure.
My advice is don't take the above quote as any advice.......Your problem is totally different to the problem that Sameira has got. By the meaning of, how you put it ' the nerve was damaged ' means the tooth was heavily decayed, so decayed that the decay has gone down the nerve. (which is very painful) had you gone for your regular check up every six months, then this decay would of got detected by the dentist when it was the size of a dot and simple straight forward filling would of done the trick, however, i know from 14 yrs experience that people (no doubt like yourself) that have a hole in the tooth and can't be bothered to go to the dentist until they are in agony, by then it's too late and further treatment is needed which goes into a root canal treatment (removal of the nerve) and more expense. Another example....getting a punture, mend the punture and everything wil be fine, but if you don't and you keep riding and riding on this punctured tyre, eventually it will be beyond repair. Anyone should avoid having a tooth out unless absoloute nessacary, the reason being this:
When teeth erupt through the gum, how do they know when to stop erupting? first you see it slighty under the gum, then the cusps brake through, then the whole surface is through, then it comes up further and further and suddenly it does'nt come up any more, it stops erupting. Why? It doesn't have marker points on them to tell them to stop.....it's the adjacent teeth that stop them. Which is known as the bite. If you have a tooth taken out, in time the above or below one will start to erupt further, this causing it to become loose as the roots have no bone around them to suopport it. So there goes a perfectly good tooth and so on... also where there are gaps teeth start to move about, that why people have bridges fitted....i could go on and on but i can't be arsed with someone who don't know what they are talking about. Take my advise Sam, the dentist will tell you the same.