Root Canal unfinished
Added: December 15, 2006 - 8:42 AM
By: Patient Email Withheld, Tucson, AZ
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Case Summary
Root Canal
Teeth: 7,8,10
Last Full Mouth X-Ray: 6 years
Case Description
I had a Root Canal done about 6 years ago. All they did was fill the holes and that was it. now the fillings have fallen out and my teeth are becoming discolored and I have pain in one of them. I am in a bad way and don't have dental insurance and I am looking for a way to get to the work finished (or fixed). I need to be able to make payment arragements.
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It sounds like the treatment wasn''''t completed. Sometimes we do emergency treatment to help get patients out of pain. It has been the case that the disappearance of the pain gives the patient a false sense of completion. If the fillings have fallen out and teeth have discolored along with pain, it sounds like they need complete retreatment along with PERMANENT FILLINGS or crowns. I can recommend good root canal specialists that will make you find it hard to believe that you had the "dreaded" root canal.Lan Allen DMD
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