Root canal tooth throbbing years later

The roots of a tooth are made slightly more brittle by root canal treatment. Although placement of a crown helps protect the treated root from fracturing during chewing, a crack may still develop years later. Additionally, it is rare but possible that the root canal treatment itself can cause a fracture in a tooth root. It’s still possible to bite down and crack the root or an existing crack under the crown may grow down the root.

This may cause pain when biting down on the crown in certain ways.

Sometimes the pain will come and go. It was terrific until about yrs ago. My dentist checked it out and said there was an infection in it that had to be cleaned out.

Any missed root canal to treat the infection can result in infection and toothache years after root canal. Abscesses on the gums: Our gum is attached externally to the bone and tooth. The attached gum is protected from infection by proper oral brushing and flossing.

The most common symptom of a failed root canal is pain in the tooth that does not go away after several days.

Life time after root canal treatment is app 6-years after that they will tell you take that tooth off. Asked in Oral Health and Dental Care , Wisdom Teeth and. A few years back by a previous dentist I got a root canal done on a molar. A year ago, from my new dentist, a permanent crown was put onEver since, I have been experiencing sensitivity in the area, and sometimes pain but never lasting long. Why Would an Old Root Canal Start Causing Pain?

Needless to say I have really bad teeth and have recently had them repaired and crowned over the last yrs. The tooth I had a root canal on was done by a different dentist than the one that repaired my teeth. The tooth had a temp filling put on it when the RC was first done because I coulnt afford a crown at the time. What could a throbbing pain after tooth extraction mean?

Why is my tooth sensitive after root canal? What is the recovery time after a root canal? The pain shouldn’t last forever.

Dental Cement and Bite Changes A toothache that develops soon after a crown is placed is likely related to the gluing process or an uneven bite. In this treatment, nerve tissue and blood vessels are removed from the physical hollows within the tooth. A root canal is a dental procedure that is used on an infected tooth.

Although the root canal essentially makes the tooth “dea” a tooth may not heal properly, requiring additional treatment. The disinfectant used to clean the root canal can irritate as well. Meanwhile, take whatever you dentist prescribed or Ibuprofen 600mg every hours. You should not be in extreme pain, howeve. When you get a root canal , the root is removed so you should not feel any pain at all in that tooth.

So the fact that you are having pain is most likely due to the missed nerve like the dentist mentioned. You can try brushing with Sensodyn for weeks (if you can bare it) and see if you feel better. After my root canal it ached constantly for weeks before all of a sudden the aching subsided.

It basically just needed time to get over all the work that had been done on it, but there was definitely no nerve left inside the tooth.