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14 y
what to do about this tooth?
it was supposed to be a simple filling change. the tooth was fine. i had no trouble or pain with it.
it was the last of 4 teeth to be drilled on consectuively. i believe the dentist destroyed the tooth (hot drill and high speed). i have had chronic pain there since. it took 5-6 months of treating the tooth with many different things before i could eat salad and rice with that tooth.
i now have difficulty chewing hard things such as chewy steak or sunflower seeds when it hits the back part of that tooth or the pressure is too much. the filling takes up the entire tooth and on the backside there is a hairline fracture that i had to stop the hygienist from cleaning bc the sprayer hurt too much. at the base of my mouth directly under that tooth there is a small hard bony pea sized lump that was not present before.
my x-ray appears normal, but my i-cat x-ray shows something funny on the axial view, which all dentists just ignore. it is hard to explain, but here it goes. the axial view shows 2 root tips going all the way down into the jaw (#30 and #19). the tooth that hurts (#19) shows two root tips initially and as you get further down into the jaw it appears to me that one of the tips splits off so that there are 3 distinct root tips. the splitting off can not be seen. it goes from 2 big root tips to 3 (1 big and 2 smaller ones) with the third one being really far away from the tooth kind of near where i feel the lump at the base of my mouth.
i am wondering if it is possible the dentist fractured the root tip?
if so, what do i do about it?
can the body absorb the tip that split off and regrow what is missing?
i should add there is infection going on below this tooth -cavitation. i really do not want to crown the tooth or pull it.