Plz help! get it pulled?!
Question:
Plz help! get it pulled?
one of my teeth had a filling a few years ago and always bothered me, very sensative and i thought i might have cracked it when eating hard candy months later but my dentist couldn't find anything wrong....so i lived with the pain and later went to another dentist who said i needed a root canal right away! so i did but after that it still hurt (it's been a year since root canal) and now it has had like a hard bubble above it for months...now today the skin on my gum looks white and red and it's peeling!!! so i put hydrogyn poroxide on it...should i just get it pulled? i can't afford to get all the bridge work or crown cuz i don't have dental insurance! it's kinda in the back so you wouln't notice much if i just got it pulled...
Answers:
You should avoid having the tooth pulled if at all possible. The problem with this is that all of your teeth will start to shift, to fill the space, if the tooth isn't there.
You NEED to go back to the dentist who did the root canal...He clearly didn't do his job right, because a root canal is supposed to take out all of the things that would allow you to feel pain from that tooth. He should fix this, and he should not charge you for the work, considering you've already paid for the root canal.
Also, if it ends up being something more involved, check with your county or state offices, as they can often provide "emergency", short-term insurance for things like this.