Dental advice: Severe toothache despite emergency dental app. today

[BlogOnTheTyne]

Got excruciating pain up my jaw and face. Went for emergency dental appointment today and he took out old filling, found a crack in tooth and refilled. He prescribed antibiotics and said other cracked tooth on other side (which had root canal last yr) will now need to come out. Haven't been able to eat on that side for the last year.

Back home and 6.5 hrs later and pain has come back on side he did filling. Can't eat or drink normally. Really knocked out with the level of pain.

Sadistic dentist (only NHS one locally available) who's been horrible to me in the past, so it was a horrible experience this morning anyway.

He's referred me to a dental hospital for the extraction of the other tooth and said the currently painful one will have to come out at some point too. NHS wait is at least 8 weeks for emergency dental treatment but private treatment would cost £1,500!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't take anymore Ibuprofen till 2.30AM, as have had 3 doses in last 24 hrs. Pain is awful and untouched by painkillers. DCs broke up from school over a week ago now and are being impossible. I'm also working tomorrow (from home).

Basically, has anyone any advice on pain relief? what I can do - if anything? why my usually great teeth have started to fracture over last yr? how to cope with sadistic dentist who told me today he didn't think he could 'work with me anymore', as I was clearly so anxious (meaning, slight moans when the pain got too bad and clenching hands throughout ordeal but otherwise v reasonable and communicative with him)?

Mine was a failed root canal. So it was okay for about 5 years, and then became infected. Very unusual apparently

It took them ages to drill through the crown, I don't understand why they didn't just lift it off as I had it replaced later, and then took a while to get the fragments of root out. My dentist was very proud of himself afterwards, again . No pain at all though, just the normal discomfort of sitting in a dentist chair.

I have a few crowns and root canals, I have dreadfully weak teeth, and nothing has caused me pain apart from a cap when I was about 17. That made me nervous, but everythig else, including a difficult extraction has been fine.

I appreciate I sound like a one tooth wonder but do in fact look okay.

Regarding blog's dreadful wait, for future reference you can often get seen as an emergency by another dentist. My old NHS dentist would charge an emergency fee of £65 and would charge you the private fee to get your teeth up to an acceptable standard if you had let yourself lapse but would see you on the day if in pain. He would have acted straight away.

Just seen this thread, so probably too late to say that apart from hot saline solution and the mixed painkillers, Sensodyne toothpaste can help with pain (rub on gum) alternating with clove-oil on bit of cotton-wool. I do hope everyone's now painfree - this was horrendous.