Another dental abcess....

[Yorkiegirl]

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You poor thing.
WHy are you having to wait till you finish the chest infecion antibiotics? Did the dentist tell you that?

No, having it filled will have no effect on the adjacent teeth. Abscesses don't jump along a row of teeth from one to the next.

Ask your dentist for their opinion of whether root canal treatmet is likely to be successful. There are various factors that come into play - you really have to see the tooth and the x-ray and take a medical/dental history to decide.
Good luck.

bugger. That was me. Trust me to mess with an alias. Did not want to be seen as boasting on another thread

You have my heartfelt sympathies. DH has a recurring problem with root canal work and have seen him reduced to rubbing face on carpet for relief!! He's booked in again next week. So painful and so expensive. Hope you feel better soon.

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YG - hope it settles down soon and that the antibiotics kick in quickly, you poor thing.
Dont want to hyjack this thread but if Jasper is around could she answer this one for me - I have no nhs dentist around here but have now found one with room for whole family with appointment in 6 weeks. Problem is that I have a rumbling painful lower back tooth (second from the end) - a bit of a filling came out bridging two teeth and now one of those teeth is sensitive t pressure when eating and now and again gives me several hours of nagging pain. Should I register and make a 6 week appoint. or should I wait and book in at the emergency dental hospital in the nearby town with a less than brilliant reputation? How can I tell if it will get worse or not? If I make a 6 week appoint. I can?t use the dental hospital if it gets critical but then i really don?t want to have root canal surgery at the emergency place if they are not very good. Please help!

stripey, it is impossibe to predict how painful it will become.It might not get too bad within the next six weeks or it might flare up at a very inconvenient time and require immediate attention.
I regularly see patients with massive amounts of decay and when I ask if the tooth has been sore they often reply, yes, off and on for years!
Have you been in to the NHS dentist and actually signed a form to register? If so then they are obliged to have some kind of arrangement for you to access a dentist within 24 hours in an emergency. (usually number on onswerphone will tell you the details)
If you are not technically reg. until 6 weeks time then can't you go to the dental hospital in an emergancy?
Rules vary locally. It saddens me greatly that in our dear country there is insufficient provision of emergency dental care and it is one of the reasons I volunteer to do extra sessions at our local dental hospital at evenings, weekends and holidays.

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Poor you. Sending you lots of sympathies. Dh has something similar. He had root canal treatment on an eye tooth which he damaged playing football 25 years ago(!). The endodontist thought he could save it, but dh now has horrid abcess in the bone above the tooth. Extraction soon (I hope) then implants (yuck!), but then hopefully it will be fixed.

Hope you feel better soon.

Hope it gets better soon YG - sounds dreadful.
While Jasper is around, I'd also like to ask something. I have a friend (not yet an mner) who desperately needs dental treatment, but is so nervous and afraid that she just can't go. The thing is, she's going to end up in so much pain that treatment will be inevitable. Her fear is simply huge - much worse than anything she'd encounter in the dentist's chair. She's petrified of even going for a check-up as she's worried that anything touching her teeth will hurt. Am just wondering what the best thing to do would be to even get her to feel brave enough to go for a check-up. Think she will need a lot of work and it will be expensive, but not even the fact that it was free for a while could lure her there.
Also do you know if a NHS medical exemption certificate (not a maternity one) includes dental treatment?
Thanks in advance if you see this and sorry again YG to hijack.

Not sure what you mean by an NHS exemption certificate.DO you mean a free prescriptions certificate? If so the answer is no. But if you mean in conjunction with anoher benefit like family tax credit then yes.
if she has to pay the maximum for any course of treatment is £380.
Is she in pain?
Why not go to a dentist who will sedate her with an injection in the arm?

Often it is the case that really nervous people need far less treatment than they think.

Also I have rarely if ever met a nervous patient(assuming a certain level of intelligence) who was not at least partly cured after finding out how painless most treatment is nowadays.Most are completely cured and recommend all their nervous pals to the practice

Thanks jasper - yes it's a free prescriptions certificate and that's what I thought, but good news about the maximum cost.
She is actually frightened that it will hurt even to have her teeth looked at and she's getting to the stage where things are becoming painful and in the end she'll have no choice. I've never known someone to be so frightened before and no matter how much I try to explain that everything is relatively painless (she's V V worried about the injections) she just isn't convinced and goes white at the very thought.
She actually had both her children under ga because she didn't think she could handle a CS with just an epidural.
I will keep trying to explain in the most gentle way I can and hopefully we'll get her there. It may help to know that she can undergo treatment with an intravenous sedative.
I wondered also if just speaking to a dentist for reassurance would help. My fear was cured many years ago by a good dentist and I'm in the middle of rather a lot of treatment myself atm, but she just remains totally unconvinced that she could tolerate even a first appointment to see what treatment she would need.

Aero she is fortunate to have you as a friend trying to help her out.
It is very hard to help someone when they have actually lost a grip on reality. I do not mean to be unkind in the least but if she is not even interested in curing her problem there is nothing else you as a friend can do. There is help out there but she has to accept it.