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My root canal photo NSFW?

bottlecap

bottlecap

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From December 14th to January 12th I was dealing with a cracked crown on my tooth. I was downing 20 Ibuprofin a day, rinsing with Whiskey to kill the nerve, also applying Orajel to kill the pain. Well the tooth ended up getting infected and I had to get a friend to write me a script for Penicillin. I don't have dental insurance with my job so I couldn't just pop in and get my tooth fixed. I ended up having to borrow $3K from my mom. *sigh*

Anyway the tooth is 95% fixed just waiting on the permanent crown for my tooth. I asked the Dentist if I could get a copy of a photo of my tooth before they had worked on it at all. Here it is the brown is where the crown was cracked off...

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momoceio said:
Ouch!
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Yeah pretty much... The pain of tooth dwarfed any discomfort of the root canal, I have photos of my tooth "prepped" (the crown drilled out), and a great X-ray of 3 files that are used to file out the nerve of the root of the tooth. You can feel them filing the nerves out. It's an interesting experience. I brought an iPod to "drown out the sounds" but you can't drown them out when the sound is IN YOUR HEAD!
 
edge said:
Sedation dentistry bro... get yourself some halcion and its smooth sailing
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Couldn't afford it. I had my previous dentist use some nice stuff on me for Sedation when I had my wisdom teeth pulled, I remember going to the dentist and then waking up at my house the next day.
 
Halcion is cheap! $10 copay for the pills... ask your doc next time. You will need a ride. You can barely walk on it...
 
I just had a root canal recently, it was so bad that the infection ate at the bottom of my crown. I also got to smell that funky odor when the dentist was drilling, it was surely an interesting experience laying on that chair for 4 hours, but the vicadin sealed the deal for me :D
 
ohh dear lord thats nasty..

i hate the dentist.. one summer i decided it would be a solid idea to start eating powder sugar ice tea straight out of the can. ended up with 5 cavaties that summer. fml
 
My wife recently had a crown crack, but by the time the infection got to a place where she could feel it, the tooth was too far gone and they had to pull it out and give her a bridge. So you could have had it worse!
 
I'm from the UK, and when I visited the US a few years ago, I had to have root canal done. It would've cost me about $75 back home, over there it cost me $1,500.

I don't know what was worse, the pain from the tooth or shelling out so much money to have said pain removed!
 
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