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Tooth decay missed

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vanillafudgecake · 15/10/2024 19:42

Been thinking about some previous treatment I've had and wondered if anyone else has experienced the same or had thoughts on it.

Long story short I had an old filling removed, decay seen and cleaned out before being refilled. Fast forward several weeks with numerous trips to the dentist for tooth pain, antibiotics given etc the filling was removed again and further decay found, a significant amount. This hasn't shown up on any x-rays. We were going down the path of perhaps the nerve needed time to settle as the new filling was deep.

So it now transpires after all this time and pain it was decay which I thought had all been removed. The tooth is now going to need root canal treatment and a crown. A much larger job and cost than originally planned.

I guess it is what it is and I'm booked in to have the work done this week but should this have happened at all I wonder?

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StormingNorman · 15/10/2024 19:44

How long ago did you have the work done

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vanillafudgecake · 15/10/2024 20:03

StormingNorman · 15/10/2024 19:44

How long ago did you have the work done

So looking back through my diary the original work was done at the end of August so just over 7 weeks ago

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JudyJulie · 16/10/2024 11:41

Yes, tooth decay in a wisdom tooth, not missed as such, because it eventually turned out that the dentist knew about it, but he never thought to tell me.

For two years, I had attacks of what I later found out were toothache, but because I was going to the dentist regularly and he hadn't said anything, I did not know this. Eventually it got so bad that I was in horrendous pain and had lost the use of one side of my face. I went to A&E where I was initially told that every episode of pain had been a stroke. They later amended this to trigeminal neuralgia and put me on anti-convulsants, which just knocked me out. I then had a brain scan.

Two months later I went back to the dentist for a scheduled appointment and told him what had been happening and he just said "Time to take that tooth out then."

I let him do that and then changed dentists. It seems dentistry, like everything else now, is not an exact science,

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vanillafudgecake · 16/10/2024 18:36

JudyJulie · 16/10/2024 11:41

Yes, tooth decay in a wisdom tooth, not missed as such, because it eventually turned out that the dentist knew about it, but he never thought to tell me.

For two years, I had attacks of what I later found out were toothache, but because I was going to the dentist regularly and he hadn't said anything, I did not know this. Eventually it got so bad that I was in horrendous pain and had lost the use of one side of my face. I went to A&E where I was initially told that every episode of pain had been a stroke. They later amended this to trigeminal neuralgia and put me on anti-convulsants, which just knocked me out. I then had a brain scan.

Two months later I went back to the dentist for a scheduled appointment and told him what had been happening and he just said "Time to take that tooth out then."

I let him do that and then changed dentists. It seems dentistry, like everything else now, is not an exact science,

Oh my goodness that sounds horrendous, I'm so sorry you had to suffer for that long.

I'm having the root canal done elsewhere, with a specialist, and I will be switching dentists after this for sure

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