Re: Healthy to Root Canal Status in How Long?

From: The Real Paul (no_at_no.no)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:05:39 GMT

Many teeth that have zero symptoms need to have a root canal. I did one last
week in fact. It had a big radiolucency (infection) at the apex of #5 and I
explained to the patient why he needed it and showed him the x-ray (he acted
like he saw it too). I hope he's not bad mouthing me on the net somewhere.
All we can do is educate. Ultimately it is your mouth and you decide what
will be done. If you decide to let an asymptomatic infection dwell and then
it suddenly gives you a golf ball sized swelling with intense pain one
weekend, then thats your choice. But you went ahead and now that money is an
issue you wonder if it was even necessary. If you'd have gone against my
recommendation I would not have lost any sleep. You'd be back one day and
maybe you wouldn't have had the option of root canal, only extraction since
youd've waited so long.

"Damaeus" <tribalzidane@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:frqkm0lrck53eeir3guco70k0nf7cpr0p7@4ax.com...
> I had a check up on my teeth. Got everything in shape. Two years later,
I
> visit a dentist and he tells me I need a root canal. He's a new dentist
in
> town, just starting up a new practice. He'd been there a year or two at
that
> time. I was skeptical and expressed my skepticism. No pain at all in
this
> tooth. He said that indeed, a tooth can decay that quickly. Two previous
> times, I had a couple of teeth that needed a root canal, but I couldn't
afford
> it. They hurt like the dickens and I had them pulled -- two molars on the
> bottom.
>
> Well, despite no pain, no sensitivity to hot or cold, I let him perform
the
> root canal. What is your opinion? Can a tooth go from healthy to
"needing a
> root canal" in only two years?
>
> When I had the work done, they ran some kind of check on my insurance,
said
> the insurance would cover it. Well my insurance didn't cover it and so I
> started making $15.00 monthly payments. Now they say they want bi-weekly
> payments. I want to express to them my lingering skepticism about this
root
> canal, but I'm not a dentist.
>
> He seemed like a nice guy, but most con artists are nice guys. (A really
nice
> man swindled a friend of mine out of $10,000.) How do I know he didn't
just
> need some income so he drilled my tooth to make a quick buck? I can't
prove
> it either way. And I know that there are evil dentists out there, and
that
> most of them are perfectly legitimate.
>
>

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