Has anyone had a root canal on a front tooth?

[marmite92]

I've got to have a root canal on a front tooth due to trauma. I'm absolutely terrified it will fail and I'll lose a tooth as google seems to indicate they don't last more than 10 years! It's making me so stressed, is it as big a deal as I'm making out? My tooth is in good condition, it's due to braces it died, I must have banged it years ago or something. The dentist said I wouldn't need a crown.

Can anyone who's had one or a dentist reassure me please?

That's good Arcadia just feeling better about it helps I bet.

Thanks @1990s and the pain has now more or less gone - the antibiotics I guess - so I feel better about it.

Yes I have one, following trauma. There was no fracture of the tooth or root during the trauma but the blow was enough to cause the tooth to die. This was 9 years ago and the tooth was root-filled over 2 years. An annual radiograph shows all is well. My tooth didn’t need a crown. I’ve had internal and external bleaching on this tooth as it went slightly discoloured / greyish.
I’m very wary of biting into anything like an apple etc because root-filled teeth are brittle and my tooth isn’t crowned.

• the tooth was root-filled over 2 visits not 2 years 😂

Also- it’s not that I don’t appreciate how worrying and upsetting this is. My teeth issues honestly blighted my life for many years. (I have no photos of myself at all for decades). It’s just one of those things that If I could tell my younger self it’s all manageable and all ok then I’d love that. I had no one to help me or guide me. No parents or dentists looking after me. About 10 years ago I ended up going on my own to Budapest for implants because I couldn’t afford the U.K. cost. This was literally after decades of problems. I now know so much about dentistry and I have my children with the best dentists. I’m truly completely confident that they will not have the issues I had. As I said- my teenage daughter has a black front tooth that has died. This is all fine. She will be completely taken care of and it’s all manageable.
Root canals can fail. That’s ok.
Implants can fail. That’s ok.
If only someone had told me this. I even wrote to a teenage magazine problem page including a drawing of my teeth when I was really young! I’ve just remembered that.
Good luck op. And if you want to ask any questions about teeth I’m happy to help in any way I can.

Yes, me. I had a veneer on my front tooth that was replaced by a second dentist in my twenties and he filed the original tooth back so far it exposed the pulp and killed the tooth. I then had a root canal by a standard dentist ( different one) which failed. So ended up find a periodontal specialist locally who did a second root canal which has so far lasted around 20 years. It might not last forever but I’ll have an implant if it fails.

So my advice is to find a specialist. Normally you get one chance at a root canal. I was extremely lucky.

I had mine done on the nhs about 35 years ago. It's very slightly darker than my other teeth but you really need to look to notice it. It twinges occasionally but, touch wood, seems totally ok. Unlike the rest of my blooming teeth!

@marmite92 any news on yours? I got mine done today and wasn't too bad at all, touch wood not hurting at the moment either. Took a while as I had a blockage in there and a long root apparently. Quite proud of my long root!