Is root canal treatment appropriate for sensitive teeth?
Q. I had a filling in october 2007. My tooth has always been very sensitive to cold and hot stuff since the filling. The tooth is however not painful except recently when I try to bite on it. Secondly, if a put a sweet or anything sweet on the surface of the filling its very very painful.My dentist recently recommended a root canal treatmet. Do you think it would be the appropriate treatment considering the tooth is not painful but just sensitive to hot/cold and to feeling like when a spoon touches it.The tooth in question is the first molar.What could be the problem
A. Symptoms like these suggest that the nerve inside the tooth is alive but over sensitive. This is often due to the filling not being able to seal the tooth adequately, it is not necessarily a poor filling. Repeating the filling is an option that the dentist has not recommended, I assume they have assessed replacing the filling as being unlikely to produce a better result. Without Root canal the nerve will usually die and eventually cause an abscess.
Rob
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 at 3:39 amand is filed under Dr Tennet's Answers, Experts Answers, Q. General dentistry.
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Bonded Amalgam Restoration on lower right Molar
Posterior Composite Filling on Upper Right Molar
This was because routine check up x-ray showed slight decay on both Molars
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