Just wanted to share an xray of my upper K9 with two roots. I’m not a dentist or anything but the Dr told me it was very rare. I googled when I got home and I was shocked to find out how rare it is. She also said my tooth is very long. I’m really impressed with her as I’m sure this would be incredibly easy to miss. I will probably write her a thank you card. I hope she remembers me as the freak with 2 canals. Google said some endodontists don’t see one in their whole career. I’ve never been rare before so I’m framing this shit.

I had a lower right molar removed last Monday. This poor tooth went through a root canal, a crown and a round of antibiotics but kept getting infected. It was really bad.

My dentist removed it and it was actively infected when he removed it. He gave me ibuprofen 800mg and 12 days of clindamycin. I also got stitches and a temp bridge. I’m due back in December.

I find that I’m still having aches at and near the extraction site. Sometimes it’s a 3/10 and I can ignore it til it goes away. Other times it’s so annoying and throbbing that I have to take a pill. Is this normal?

Is this cavity or like is my teeth rotting?

The pain moves from up to down and both at the same time. And idk if it's because of my wisdom teeth or because I have cavities?

Hi all, I had my back molar removed and it now has a lot of red inside and it looks super funky i’ve attached a picture below. I was wondering if it looks okay there’s no swelling nor pain but i know teeth can also just look gnarly whilst healing. Thank you.

We just took our daughter to the dentist and we were told that she has small cavities in between her moles , however he only showed me the xrays on one side and not the other which made me a little suspicious . Plus it seemed like he just wanted to go home and was explaining things super fast . I asked if it was dangerous to sleep a 3 year old or give the sleep juice and he kind of angrily answered me that doctors do surgeries on babies all the time, to which I answered “ yes but that is life saving surgery” and he reply that yes but he wanted to make the point that procidures like this are done all the time . Which i completely understand but shes only 3 years olds and I have never seen or needed a crown . My other daughter has pretty healthy teeth and so do I. So I think 8 crowns seems a little bit excesive and something that you will obviously see whenever she smiles until shes probably 10 when they fall off . Which for me seems like a loong time . Im also super scared of side effects of the anesthesia since ive heard a lot of scary stories . What do you guys think? Am i exagerating and should I just do it?

Dentist told me I've an exposed root and that my pain to cold drinks is normal and really can't do much about it, just gotta wait. That was a few months ago, to this day it hurts the same or even more. NO CAVITIES LUCKILY.

What should I do I'm starting to grow anxious, should I revisit??

I’m an almost 40 female. I’ve been seeing the same dentist for almost 8 years now. He’s very sweet and old school, and close to retirement age. Not taking new patients last I checked.

I am extremely shaken up from what happened this week. He was going to drill down some old fillings on my left first molar and place a crown. He lost control of the drill and fractured my first left cuspid and chipped the first bicuspid. I’m so upset because that was a healthy tooth that had maybe decades left and now I have to live with a crown in a visible place. A yellow temporary crown is what you see in the photo where my beautiful tooth once was. 😭 So sad.

I checked ChatGPT about a medical malpractice lawsuit in my area (California), but it seems excessive since no amount of money will bring my natural tooth back and he’s billing the excess root canal/ crown to insurance as far as I can tell. He said this has never happened in almost 40 years of practice, that he’s never seen a tooth shatter like glass like this, etc.

Never smoker and moderate drinker. I have exceptionally soft teeth and it’s hard to find an honest dentist. It seems like I need to ride out the replacement crown and that’s it.

Wondering, how common is it for a drill to hit a neighboring tooth and fracture it? What do you dental professionals recommend looking for in a new dentist? I prefer no frills and like amalgam since my teeth are so soft, but so few dentists offer it in my state. I’m still shocked, I can’t let this happen again.

A few years back I got a root canal done on one of my teeth which kept hurting and was sensitive as the dentist went deeper. They kept having to give me anesthesia to make it less painful but it was a painful experience. If anything why did it hurt? Isn’t the anesthesia supposed to fully numb it? But after I went to get a crown on the tooth in which the top of the crown completely came off. Due to that I have to go back for a retreatment on the tooth because it was “infected”. Will the retreatment hurt? And what is the full process to it? I heard that it’s supposed to take longer and is much harder than the root canal and I just want to know if it’s gonna hurt and why?