Re: Healthy to Root Canal Status in How Long?

From: W_B (no_one_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:45:14 GMT

WoW dude, chill bro...

See this every day. IME an asymptomatic tooth with verifiable
RadioLucency (RL) is usually a vertically fractured root.
Especially in the absence of fistula.
Bicuspids are notorious for vertical root fracture.
We will talk about #5 and #12 another day.

--> EXT

Calm down, your BP will thank you.

Ask JME about the "swan song"...

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:05:39 GMT, "The Real Paul" <no@no.no> wrote:

>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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