Abscess after root canal causes
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A tooth becoming loose after a root canal is not normal, and indicates a failure to diagnose or treat correctly. Three possible causes:
1) Major infection prior to the root canal around the tooth that ate away all the supporting bone. If this is the case, a root canal should never have been done.
2) Does it feel like you hit that tooth first or harder when you bite down or slide your teeth together right or left?
That did not help and was switched to amoxicillin, followed by a root canal. The root canal was a week ago but the lump from the abscess is still on my gum. Is this normal? I was not put on antibiotics after the root canal but I took the last 2 amox. From the prescrip I had been given the week before.
I started on keflex and scheduled a root canal ASAP. After the root canal and finishing the keflex the abscess was still there. My endontist downplayed it like it's no big deal but he drained the abcess and put me on clymdamycin. Finished all the clymdamycin and the abscess is still there. Endontist says it could take months to heal and sent me on my way. I feel like I need a second opinion. I still have a pea sized abscess on my gums idk what to do.
Do not allow a general dentist to perform your root canal therapy. General dentists have minimal training in root canal procedures. Endodontists go for an additional 24 months after dentatl school. There is a reason for this. Root Canal therapy done by an endodontist who performs microscopic endodontics is very successful. Unforturnately dentists performing root canal procedures without the training, tools, and experience of endodontists have a much higher failure rate.
I went to the dentist last sunday with an abscess tooth which is going to have to be a root canal started taking amoxicillin mon its now friday and still swollen no sign of abscess subsiding quite painful still planning to go to doctor or dentist tomorrow are there any symptoms i shoud be worried about and maybe go to emergency
I went to my dentist and he said that i need root canal. He said that teet become loose because of abscess. So after the treatment (it takes 3 visits and + antibiotic) everything seems ok. But now i checked the teeth and its seems still loose, but less when it was before the treatment. I dont feel any disconfort, but just wanna know if its normal?
Thank You!
Did the dentist finish the job, and the next step was a post and core and crown? The last one third of the canal is sealed in a root canal, and then a temporary filling or permanent filling goes into the lower part of the canal. If that has fallen out, then the canal could be filled with food debris and could cause decay and irritate the gums.
I formed a large abscess in my cheeck after a root canal. It's quite painful and I am taking percocet and ibuprofen 800 to minimize the pain. I am also on antibiotics. Is there a way to manually drain the abscess?
t have waited so long to come in but I waited until pain was constant and continual because I thought it would go away. After the root canal, he said we should make a "bite guard" because he says I am grinding too. I have had the same dentist for 30 years. He is a good guy so I am trusting his judgment.
If there's an abscess, root canal treatment should resolve the problem. If not, a re-treatment of the root canal is possible or an apicoectomy in which they remove the tip of the infected root along with the infection in that area.
Referral to a specialist for the procedure may be necessary.
I cracked a tooth last week! Quite a lousy crack too, as in about a quarter of it disappeared down my throat. Unless that is considered a chip?
I consulted a dentist yesterday. There was an old silver filling in that tooth, which is quite a deep, and somehow a piece of the tooth came off. He did a white filling, but still, my mouth aches.
After that, he suggested to me for teeth cleaning for two weeks and then crown next week. If the crown is not done, then apparently the teeth crack again.
I went to the dentist who detected an abscess above the tooth next to it and, thus performed a root canal procedure on it. I was given two courses of antibiotics. However, the pain in my front tooth never went away and so the dentist performed a root canal procedure on that tooth. There was quite a bit of pain from that procedure, of course, but over the next week my sensitivity disappeared and the pain seemed to be subsiding.
The next day after i had the crown i felt an throbing pain on the crowned tooth. I went to the doctor and he advised me of doing root canal. 2 days later he cleaned my canal and injected antibiotics in my canals.
My question is that
1) In how many days abscess is going to heal?
2) why he didnt prescirbed me any antibiotics?
3) if the infection is healed can i put crown without doing root canal?
I had a root canal done on tooth # 28 five days ago. I had no pain prior to root canal , but my dentist said I had a large abscess found on xray that needed to be root canaled before I left to go out of the country. Sine the root canal I have had severe pain 10+ and a lot of facial swelling. After calling my endontontist 3 days in a row he had me come in to his office and determined my bite was offf and I was hitting the root canal tooth first.
So a few years ago tooth #10 had to have a root canal (the one between the front tooth and the canine) and after i had it done, an abscess formed on the gum above the tooth and I had to go back in (don't know if they redid the root canal; do they do that to fix an abscess?) in any case, it hurt a lot for a long time after the root canal, but eventually it calmed down.
A few months ago, the tooth started hurting again.
Thankyou for your reply. No i havn't, what's the post root canal treatment? I thought the RCT procedure removed all of the nerve?
It is best to get an appropriate evaluation and treatment done. If there was a root canal done in the above tooth? In few cases root canals can fail due to branching and convolutions of the tooth roots. See your dentist at the earliest. Treatment will be specific based on the cause.
Best luck and regards!
I was told I need a root canal and given antibiotics. After the infection cleared up and stopped hurting I forgot about it, with the intention of eventually going back and getting it taken care of. Well now I have a painless lump on the outside gum right below that tooth. It seems to have appeared over night. I thought I felt food in there and noticed it. It feels like a blister but doesn't hurt at all. Is this something I can wait a few days and see if it goes away, I just discovered it.
I have had extensive dental work all of my life. Multiple Root canals with one known failed root canal that showed an abscess. This root canal was done by another dentist at least 10 years earlier if not longer. Point is Root canals are a big deal and can cause other problems in the body years later.
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