I have had a long standing crown. Almost 40 years ago a wonderful dentist named Dr. Levkowitz put a gold crown over two molars. The one on top received a root canal and the one on bottom had such a large filling that he worried the upper, harder gold would destroy it without a crown. It has served me very well for these 39 years. Until a year ago, when I bit down on a popcorn kernal and developed pain in the darn thing.
But it was on and off pain, never really super bad, and we kept x-raying it, and it didn't get much worse and it never got completely better. So the prognosis was it will need a root canal at some point. I had researched pulp therapy with ozone over root canal and thought I would have time to get to Switzerland to try that out instead of a root canal. But my luck ran out in Eastbourne.
The hot drinks and cold drinks began to really bother me. When I needed to take ibuprofen, the hubs insisted I see the dentist who did his recent root canal. So on Thursday, I made the appointment for today. Except they had a cancellation on Thursday and called me back and began the root canal immediately. In two weeks I will return for the remainder of the clean out and have a long awaited functioning tooth again.
In my defense, I thought the tooth was cracked under the crown. My experience with having a cracked tooth and root canal has not been good, as I paid for that darn thing and then had to pull that tooth after all, six months later. The good news here is twice over. One, the tooth was not cracked. Two, this dentist must have said "sorry" one million times during the treatment, so incredibly empathetic and concerned to not cause pain. We picked a winner with this woman, she is amazing! I highly recommend Lushington Road Dental Clinic in Eastbourne. www.lushingtondental.com Dr. Anjali Patel. She is a jewel. And root canals are half of what they are in the US. Saved the tooth mom!
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