Help? Bad toothache, not sure where

From: Stephen Denney (sdenney_at_OCF.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:09:23 -0800

I have had a horrible toothache for the last few days. I believed the pain
was coming from the second to last molar on the bottom right side, next to
my wisdom tooth and on the other side a tooth that was extracted. The
cavity there is very deep and my dentist said the nerve was close to the
cavity. So I made an appointment to see the root canal specialist
(endondist?) today, but he looked at it and then at the bottom wisdom
tooth and said he believed it is the latter and recommended I get that
extracted instead. He did not think the other tooth needed root canal
work. So then I went to the oral surgeon (a half block away) and he
basically agreed, but because it was now a few hours after I had taken my
antibiotic medicine (which I have to take as I have artificial hip
joints), he told me to come back tomorrow morning, which I plan to do. But
I am concerned, that what if they are both wrong and I still have this
pain afterwards? I know I should probably have the bottom wisdom tooth
removed in any case, as the top one was, but complicating this is that
next Wednesday I will have my first liver biopsy, a surgical procedure
which I heard can be painful, and I don't want to go in there with some
other severe pain going on.

Sorry for this convoluted story, but any advice would be greatly
appreciated. I did get very helpful advice the last time I visited this
group.

  - Steve Denney

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