On a scale of 1 to 10... How sore is root canal work??!
Question: one of my bottom teeth will need either root canal work or to come out completely.... id rather keep the tooth???
Answers: one of my bottom teeth will need either root canal work or to come out completely.... id rather keep the tooth???
I am a dental hygienst...and have had a root canal...and it was a 1 in pain for me....It all depends on how much infection there is in the tooth,..the more infection...the harder it is to FREEZE the tooth....are you in pain?....are you on any pain killers/antibiotics right now..?.if you are ..that should help with the procedure.....the rc treatment itself is like having a filling done...It's the anesthetic part that is uncomfortable at times....think positive, and things will go well..too many horror stories out there, that are over embellished...Take care
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Get it done~!
Right before the holidays I had some horrible pain. Turns out I needed a root canal. Got in the chair they use the numbing stuff on your gums a little while later it was all done. The next day it was sore but they gave some good pain pills.
Now a month or so later I almost forgot which side they worked on.
Oh, I almost forgot the question on a scale of 1-10 before having it done, 37 during, maybe a 3 and after -2
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they hurt a lot, but it's worth it. i'd rather go through pain for a while than not have a tooth...
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8.5 but worth it It is only 1hour of pain its not forever like toothache can seen
10+ you will need an anaesthetic.
I reckon..... from memory.... about a 7
I don't mind a root canal as it's just a big filling and your gum and tooth are numb anyway. It's no worse than a filling it just takes longer but not ages.
Here in the U.S. about a 6 or 7 at the worst, but you don't feel it because you get adequate pain relief before, during and after the procedure.
10 but the pain is a lot higher!!!
How much pain you have is directly related to how high or low your thresh hold of pain is. Some people say that it almost killed them. I had one once in the morning and went to work that afternoon.
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I've had 3 done and they aren't that painful at all, as long as your dentist gives time for the anaesthetic to work. The biggest problem was keeping my mouth open for quite a period of time!! Got a bit of jaw ache from it but well worth it and better than losing a tooth. Good luck
15 if you happen to bite down for the first week and a 10 if you dont bite down.
10 but it's worth it
Try and save the tooth.they will numbthat area you wil not feel anything .its pricey though
I have had my nose broken twice and muscle spasm headaches for years. Even with the liquid anaesthetic pored into the tooth, root canal work was the most excruciating pain I have ever experienced. Still ... I am glad I kept the tooth.
xxFJ
1. Seriously I have had two root canals, three full crowns, and other dental work resulting from an injury many years ago. If your dentist is any good, the anesthesia should work well enough to where you just feel pressure and no pain. People make them out to be so awful, but really they aren't bad at all. Just understand that you are going to be there for awhile.
Mine was an upper tooth, but I have a great dentist who doesn't believe in allowing people to suffer. On a scale of 1 to 10, keeping in mind that he gave me a prescription for enough painkillers to last three additional days, I would give it a 2. The most pain I felt was the shots to numb the area, but even those were muted thanks to novocaine rubbed on my gums first.
Umm...the gas was fun, too.
a heck of a lot less than the pain the tooth is causing...with the novicaine...the pain is about a 1.5...all you will really feel is pressure.
If you go to a good endodontist, it should not hurt at all. They give you plenty of novocaine. Afterwards you can take some painkillers, whatever they recommend. I've had a few root canals. Their reputation is worse than the procedure. You should def try to keep your tooth. Good luck.
If ye huv a guid dentist who can get ye frozen properly, it will be a breeze! Certainly less painful than awful toothache.. Guid luck.
A 20, but it will hurt more if you wait longer! The needles suck, but it is worth it!
10 and then some!!!!
My other tooth that needed a root canal, i had taken out and bridge work done, pain level for that was about a 1/2
I've heard it's the most painful dental work you can have...so 10, I guess.
2. i have had two root canals, and the only part that really hurt was when they injected the numbing medicine. after that, i didn't feel anything. make sure you have a good endodontist and your experience should be fine.
about 3/10
Nothing is as painful as child birth or a kidney stone and I have had 3 of each.
:o)
In relation to dental work in general or in overall potential physical pain?
Dental work scale only: 7 to 8, depending on your dentist and the method used (modern methods are pretty excellent, but damn, it's still invasive stuff). To get to 10 in my book, they would need to totally botch the procedures and cause severe damages.
Overall potential pain: 3 if you are female and 5 if you are male (child birth weighs a lot here). Whether the canal is good or bad, there's worse pain to suffer and a canal lasts a pretty short while, in the grand scheme of things.
Now, I've had a few extractions recently and those were, surprisingly, not so bad. For dental work scale, I'd put those at about a 3, but my dentist is excellent (and he better be for that kind of money). More important, though, is to see what the differences will be in your dental health when you compare the likely outcomes of each type of procedure. Whichever is the more positive potential, I'd say do that. The dental pain should be relatively short lived when you think of how long you'll be living with your teeth, so always choose the option which gives you the better long-term health prosepects.
Whichever you choose, get it over with, start healing.
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A few dozen,but don't worry/you'll be drugged down to level one.