I so was born with shitty teeth. It was a tooth that already has a crown and the tooth next to it (the one I thought it was). The one with the crown was not seated correctly, which she told me on my first visit and I have been aware of for a long time because I get food caught between that tooth and another tooth every time I eat. I should send the bill to my previous dentist.
She had to clean it out so she gave me shots in my gums and the roof of my mouth, it didn't hurt. Then she got in there and started digging. I know it would have hurt if she hadn't numbed the area. After she cleaned the area she irrigated it with an antibiotic solution, called in some antibiotics and told me to come back next week for a recheck. She is going to replace the crown and possibly do a root canal on the other tooth. If I don't need a root canal on the other tooth she will just do a crown. My dental insurance wont cover the new crown on the tooth that already had a crown, I have had it less than 8 years and they have to be older than 8 years for insurance to cover it. I do get the price that the insurance pays though. The other tooth will be covered.
OH BEG, a tooth problem is nothing to fool with.
I have no idea why dental care is not covered the same as medical care on insurance---
Gum disease can go into ones heart and other internal organs as will the poison from an abscessed tooth.
Patients that have a tooth removed and get a [dry socket ] say this is the worse pain they have ever had in their life, worse then 3rd degree burns.
I have 2 kids that inherited their dads family's teeth. Both were born with problems and cost us a fortune trying to have fixed. Actually it was their gums as I know now but at the time the kids were getting root canals on 2 year old permanent teeth. These kids needed a medical doctor not a dentist.
Today we know more via the internet and can now look back 30 years and say " AHA, so that is why".
This can be very difficult for parents to tell a dentist to pull any infected teeth in a preteen. The alternatives are to do root channel or what ever. However the gums will still stay infected and the poison will still be draining into the body even with no pain.