Dentist

[Trouvere]

Well the word is in.I am still in pain.I have to see an Endodonist to do three root canals.Good thing I have dental insurance but I will be paying out the nose for this work.My share just at the dentist and after insurance is going to be fifteen hundred dollars.Get this.My teeth are decaying from the roots downward.I was told to go out and buy tooth paste called Pro-Sensidyne.It cost almost five bucks a small tube and some of that new Acts mouthwash restorative.I bought some calcium tabs as well and orajel to be able to stand it until all this is done.I hope I am not on the heating pad again tonight.Its getting to be old sleeping on the couch or in the recliner.
I will pray for anyone who needs it.
The dentist ask me what I was doing that decayed my teeth so bad.I have no idea.I use diet sweetners.So I am off coffee,off diet coke and drinking only water.Also I have to drink water every time I feel my mouth is dry.Go figure.
I will be doing this all day.Its possible that acid reflux while I sleep is doing this to me so I am going to go to the md now.The eye doctor,dentist and md all in one week.What next???? The copays are killing me.
Anyone with naturapathic ideas would be very welcome about right now.

[LadyCoonskinner]

Originally Posted by Trouvere

Well the word is in.I am still in pain.I have to see an Endodonist to do three root canals.Good thing I have dental insurance but I will be paying out the nose for this work.My share just at the dentist and after insurance is going to be fifteen hundred dollars.Get this.My teeth are decaying from the roots downward.I was told to go out and buy tooth paste called Pro-Sensidyne.It cost almost five bucks a small tube and some of that new Acts mouthwash restorative.I bought some calcium tabs as well and orajel to be able to stand it until all this is done.I hope I am not on the heating pad again tonight.Its getting to be old sleeping on the couch or in the recliner.
I will pray for anyone who needs it.
The dentist ask me what I was doing that decayed my teeth so bad.I have no idea.I use diet sweetners.So I am off coffee,off diet coke and drinking only water.Also I have to drink water every time I feel my mouth is dry.Go figure.
I will be doing this all day.Its possible that acid reflux while I sleep is doing this to me so I am going to go to the md now.The eye doctor,dentist and md all in one week.What next???? The copays are killing me.
Anyone with naturapathic ideas would be very welcome about right now.

Hey sis, let me give you a hint that will help. Take a pillow slip and fold it up and wet it and then put it in a freezer bag and put a little water in it and put it in the microwave and heat it up until the water is almost boiling and them wrap it up in a towel and put it on the side of your face that is hurting and it will help with the pain and the swelling.

I know it sounds wierd, but it works a lot better and faster than a heating pad. It might be a shock at first, but then it will settle down.

[Trouvere]

Originally Posted by LadyCoonskinner

Hey sis, let me give you a hint that will help. Take a pillow slip and fold it up and wet it and then put it in a freezer bag and put a little water in it and put it in the microwave and heat it up until the water is almost boiling and them wrap it up in a towel and put it on the side of your face that is hurting and it will help with the pain and the swelling.

I know it sounds wierd, but it works a lot better and faster than a heating pad. It might be a shock at first, but then it will settle down.

I am going to try it.I will do anything.I bought some orajel at Walmart along with the other things the dentist had me to buy.I am starting on calcium supplements as well.The wierd thing is acid is causing this.I brush and floss all the time.She thinks when I sleep that I have reflux and its seeping under my teeth.I am supposed to drink small sips of water all day long from now until eternity.lol...the amount I have to pay for all the work may kill me who knows.
Thanks I am going to try it.Anything that would help.I have exhausted all my nursing knowledge.

[LadyCoonskinner]

Originally Posted by Trouvere

I am going to try it.I will do anything.I bought some orajel at Walmart along with the other things the dentist had me to buy.I am starting on calcium supplements as well.The wierd thing is acid is causing this.I brush and floss all the time.She thinks when I sleep that I have reflux and its seeping under my teeth.I am supposed to drink small sips of water all day long from now until eternity.lol...the amount I have to pay for all the work may kill me who knows.
Thanks I am going to try it.Anything that would help.I have exhausted all my nursing knowledge.

Make sure to wrap it in a towel that is pretty thick, so it does not burn your face. I had a tooth that was bad and it started at night (of course) and by morning I was taking it out of the microwave and putting straight on my face. Man I looked like I was sunburned and it was in the middle of winter.

Let me say this as nicely as I can..........I know it's probably too much information, but I would rather go to the gynecologist 3 times a day than go to the dentist once a year.

Tooth pain doesn't have very far to travel to the brain to tell you it hurts, if you hurt your foot or leg or something, the pain can wear off a little before it gets to the brain to tell you "Hey, I'm hurting" not so with the tooth, just about an inch and no time to get mixed up signals and it screams, "HEY YOU IDIOT, I"M IN PAIN HERE, DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS."

[Trouvere]

So true but I am surprised that the dentist is sending me with a referral unstead of doing anything about me losing that filling.I am going to talk
to Dr.Lui the dentist at my job tommorrow night and ask him if he thinks
I should go to someone else.He may do some of the work for me and file
my insurance himself.Thank the Lord for once I am a prison nurse at least
we have a dentist and three doctors daily.lol...its about one of the only
times lately I am thankful for it.

[ILG]

Originally Posted by Trouvere

Well the word is in.I am still in pain.I have to see an Endodonist to do three root canals.Good thing I have dental insurance but I will be paying out the nose for this work.My share just at the dentist and after insurance is going to be fifteen hundred dollars.Get this.My teeth are decaying from the roots downward.I was told to go out and buy tooth paste called Pro-Sensidyne.It cost almost five bucks a small tube and some of that new Acts mouthwash restorative.I bought some calcium tabs as well and orajel to be able to stand it until all this is done.I hope I am not on the heating pad again tonight.Its getting to be old sleeping on the couch or in the recliner.
I will pray for anyone who needs it.
The dentist ask me what I was doing that decayed my teeth so bad.I have no idea.I use diet sweetners.So I am off coffee,off diet coke and drinking only water.Also I have to drink water every time I feel my mouth is dry.Go figure.
I will be doing this all day.Its possible that acid reflux while I sleep is doing this to me so I am going to go to the md now.The eye doctor,dentist and md all in one week.What next???? The copays are killing me.
Anyone with naturapathic ideas would be very welcome about right now.

The dentist was asking YOU? Seems like he ought to have some suggestions.

I just read not long ago that flouride can rot your teeth from the inside out. I know that sounds wierd and I don't know any more about it than that. You might want to do some reading on flouride reactions. I know you wrote you brush and floss all the time.

[ILG]

Originally Posted by HeavenlyOne

I have dentalphobia. My teeth will rot out of my head before I see one again.

Really? I hate dental work too. But you will really never go again?

[Trouvere]

Originally Posted by ILG

The dentist was asking YOU? Seems like he ought to have some suggestions.

I just read not long ago that flouride can rot your teeth from the inside out. I know that sounds wierd and I don't know any more about it than that. You might want to do some reading on flouride reactions. I know you wrote you brush and floss all the time.

I hadn't heard of that.I do floss and brush all the time.It makes no sense to me.I wondered if it might have had to do with bleaching my teeth.I do have those little mouth pieces that you use to whiten your teeth and because I have bonding that discolors I use it now and then though its been awhile.

[Trouvere]

I looked it up ILG this is one thing I found that the dentist told me today:
Actual dental erosion (demineralization from direct contact with acids) is relatively rare and found in those with bulimia or GERD due to continual gastric acids hitting the teeth, made worse .

I know I'm not bulimic so its maybe GERD.lol..

[ILG]

Originally Posted by Trouvere

I looked it up ILG this is one thing I found that the dentist told me today:
Actual dental erosion (demineralization from direct contact with acids) is relatively rare and found in those with bulimia or GERD due to continual gastric acids hitting the teeth, made worse .

I know I'm not bulimic so its maybe GERD.lol..

Maybe. I don't know because I'm sure not a dentist. But I have read that there are negative effects to flouride that we all need to know about. I am tyring to find out more about it now.