<p>dadx, why no pain med?</p>
<p>Worst of my one and only root canal was the device put in mouth to keep it open. Otherwise, no worse than a crown.</p>
<p>If anxiety/fear is the issue, the dentist can prescribe oral sedation (i.e. sleeping pills) to help you get through the root canal. Works like a charm.</p>
<p>A common problem for older boomers is that the old fillings in the molars start lifting off and cavities form underneath them. If you let them go as I did, root canals are the result.</p>
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<p>Doctor asked if I was game for it, since I had some kind of abcess/infection underneath that would be better served ( I don’t know why) without a novocaine injection at the site. He said the tooth was “dead” and it shouldn’t really be an issue if I could tolerate it. Both he and the nurse seemed to be impressed, but i was just happy to be on the road to recovery. </p>
<p>I had had a number of fillings done years ago when I was a teenager by my original dentist without anesthetic. He used to talk a lot and smoke a lot at the same time, and by the time we were finished talking about guy stuff, he was running short on time and we just worked without it.</p>
<p>I think there are some situation you can’t do that with, but there are a lot of procedures that don’t really require it.</p>
<p>My dentist in my 30s numbed everything. He even numbed you before he numbed you.</p>
<p>You do not need a crown, unless tooth started falling apart. I have had plenty of root canals, and some of these teeth are still w/o caps. I have never though that root canal is such a big deal except that cost has increased tremendously. And most of my canals have hurt a ton for very long time after they a done 9like several months). Advil is a painkiller for teeth, not Tylenol, not aspirin. If you ask you dentist he will tell you, as Advil is untiimflamatory. I have maybe only about 12 or so teeth w/o root canal being done. I would never pull the tooth or do a crown without great need.</p>
<p>Tylenol works on the pain better than aspirin. My manager suggested something that wasn’t a blood thinner before doing a root canal or extraction so I got a bottle of ibuprofin. One tablet worked great for three hours. Just took another one. Max dosage is 8/day so this may work. I have an antibiotic too. Dentist also gave me a prescription for vicodin but I didn’t use it. Coworker joked that I could sell the pills on the streetcorner. This tooth is missing two chunks on either end so my guess is either a crown or double porcelain onlay.</p>
<p>Ibuprofen is another name for Advil. It is right medicine for toothache.</p>
<p>My mistake, it says acetaminophen on the bottle. It’s the CVS store brand. It just kicked in and I can think again. I’m going to try the antibiotic before going to bed.</p>
<p>No, you have to take advil. it is not just painkiller it will help inflamation. My dentist told me that many times.</p>
<p>root canal was painless for me. i liked it more than getting a filling actually!! i had an excellent specialist though. i had to see him twice, and my regular dentist twice though for everything to be finalized however… and it was expensive. so lots of time / money, but no pain at all actually. there new methods are amazing.</p>
<p>take the Advil/NSAID/Aspirin. It will mitigate your impeding stroke and heart attack. Bleeding out from a hole in your jaw will seem minor.</p>
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<p>Had it done this morning. Half of my mouth feels numb. He said that it will take three to four hours to go away and then it will ache quite a bit (the jaws). The left jaw doesn’t ache and it wasn’t numbed so maybe I’ll get away with no aches. If so, I have lots of aspirin and tylenol. And maybe I’ll need some Advil. I still have the Vicodin prescription that I didn’t use.</p>
<p>He did two shots which turned out not to be enough. There was sometimes moderate to intense pain and he added a direct anesthetic when that happened. So I hope that I don’t have to go through this again though I wouldn’t be surprised if I have another one one of these days. We’ll find out at my regular dentist when he fixes things here and there.</p>
<p>The root canal was a lot less than I expected. It was about $1,100 and I had to pay about $260 out of pocket. I was expecting to write a check from $1,000 to $2,000. The max per year on my dental insurance is $1,500 per year so I’ll have to pay for the crown myself or mostly myself.</p>
<p>If you can avoid this stuff, do your self a favor and take care of your teeth.</p>
<p>You have very expensive dentist.<br>
I bet you that you can wait another year for a crown or not even have it for awhile at all. Crown has nothing to do with root canal. I would ask dentist why he wants to do it this year. I have numerous teeth with root canals that even changed color that I still do not have crown. I do not like crowns unless they are absolutely needed when half of tooth or close to it is gone.</p>
<p>I just had a root canal that cost $1060. The most painful part was paying for it ALL out-of-pocket. Getting dental insurance for 2010 so the crown will be partially covered.</p>
<p>BCEagle: The root canal is in 2009; the crown can be in 2010. You can get them both done under your dental plan. Different years.</p>
<p>I was told about $1600 complete with final crown in Seattle.</p>
<p>I have split cost of implant - surgery in one year, crown in another. When they send to insurance, they provide date of service. There is no “complete” cost when there are different procedures. The line item code for root canal is different than crown. Dentist will have at least 2 lines on a claim or maybe even more.</p>
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<p>Not sure what you mean by this. He has a schedule based on the
number of canals and this tooth had three and two of them were
tricky.</p>
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<p>There was decay to a good chunk of the tooth. It was easy to see on
the x-ray and my son could see it just looking inside my mouth. The
endodentist said that the resulting crown may require a post.</p>
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<p>The endodentist said that I shouldn’t chew on the side of the mouth
with the root canal until a crown was put in and that I should brush
but not floss the area until then. I’d rather take care of this stuff
now rather than later. I will also be doing a lot of work next year
too taking care of a few chips (which may need crowns, probably two
at most) and a few fillings. That with four cleaning visits will use
up the max/year pretty quickly.</p>
<p>I could put off the crowns until 2011 but I’m now 50 and I want to
clean up a bunch of health issues now that I have more time and
moderately less stress then over the past five years.</p>
<p>One last thing is that the economy means that it is very easy to get
appointments, even near the end of the year. It was much more of a
pain to get appointments in the past when the economy was booming.
Maybe prices are even better with the down economy. No time like the
present to support our local businesses.</p>
<p>My root canal and crown combined cost me around $2200-$2300 about a year or so ago.
Because I was blessed with a 4-rooted tooth, the root canal part of the procedure took 4 separate appointments (one for each root). Then, it was suggested to wait a little while to see if the root canal was successful (in other words, to see that the tooth was still healthy after the procedure). The root canal was done by a specialist and then I went back to my regular dentist for the crown (which required a post). Definitely get the crown put on when you get the OK from the specialist. Without the crown, the tooth may fracture and all of your hard work to save it will be for nothing. </p>
<p>I’m surprised that your dentist only gave you 2 numbing shots for the root canal procedure.
I’m pretty sure I had 4 shots—one on the outer gum, one on the inner gum, one on the roof of my mouth (this was the worst part of the entire procedure–that area is very sensitive), and one somewhere else around the tooth. After the procedure, she sent me home with 2 pills prescription dosage of tylenol to be taken once I got home (about an hour ride away) and one pill of prescription dosage ibuprofen to be taken that night. It worked like a charm.</p>
<p>I love my “new tooth”. I hope you everything works out for you with equally positive results.</p>