I just learnt a sore tooth of mine is caused by my tooth root never fully closing (due to getting braces and shifting my teeth around). Now at 30 I need a root canal.
I’ve never even had a cavity before. I’m legit terrified. Teeth are the one thing that are much worse than nails on chalkboard for me.
How was your experience been? Any words of advice or words of encouragement? I could use it :(
I heard the horror stories but from older generation. My root canal was easy.
They took xrays to view how deep the tooth went.
Froze area flattened a spot drilled in, and would stop and measure depth compared to xray and go again.
Dentist explained, too shallow and they would miss infected material, too deep and they could damage bone and nerve in jaw.
They cleaned it with a flexible metal tool, like I imagine as a tiny baby bottle brush, and a solution that smelled like bleach.
Filled it with a rod of material, and then did the regular filling type stuff on the hole.
Zero pain after, and abaolutely no after affects or pain.
My two were relatively easy like this too. No pain after, mostly just weird pressure sensations during.