Who ever had a root canal

Hello,

Which of your people ever had a realtime root canal and how did you experience it?

I personally had 3 root canals, the first was painless, the second was a little sensitive and the 3rd was quite painful.

I found it pretty overwhelming....

Greetings from the Netherlands.

Had one done. Was painfull because of the infection, not because of the treatment itself.

I have had 4 or 5. The first was painless as the tooth nerve was almost shot. The send was very painful and was an hour of agony. The remaining were essentially painless except for numerous Novocain injections and the soreness in keeping my mouth open for an hour plus. Hopefully I won’t need anymore plus the cost has risen

I have had one root canal. Not pleasant. His rasp broke off in root and I stil carry it around under a filling as he said he would have to destroy the tooth to get it out. He did not charge me extra for the rasp. lol. Denise

I had, two years ago. I was very nervous and not at all looking forward to it—the stories and accounts I had heard in my youth made root canal treatments sound like this absolutely horrible thing only topped by death in terms of terrifying things.

I didn't feel a single thing.

A few years back I had a root canal on a crown. My regular dentist did not want touch it so he sent me to a specialist. He numbed me up so I didn't feel a thing, but I was in the chair for about 2 hrs.

I’ve had several, 2 by the dentist and 2 by the endodonist and will never let a non specialist do them again. The endodonist was fas, efficient, and professional. He walked me through every step and was done in about 45 minutes. No pain after the local wore off. I needed to see the dentist to have the second stage done but that was just the filling. With all the procedures, Tylenol took care of the pain.

I've had a number done over the years when i was younger. 5, 6, 7? Can't really remember.

What i do remember though is wondering where the movie/TV meme ever came from about their being so utterly painful and using them as the ultimate reference in physical pain and an ordeal. Never liked them of course but they weren't all that horrid either.

I once had to have one done when way out in a sort of backwater mountain 'town' in the Spanish Pyrenees. I'd broken off a tooth and the nerve was exposed. The dentist alternated between working in France and Spain and he was the spitting image of John Cleese. When I had it done it was so hot he dressed only in a medical smock, which doesn't build confidence as looks go. I was really wondering what I had gotten myself into and expected to unwillingly become part of some farce or another, something between a Monty Python sketch and a W.C. Fields routine ... ha ha

But surprisingly he got it done in about 10-12 minutes and I never felt the slightest thing.

I have had alltogether 13 teeth root canal treated, and most of them also retreated! Always only with local anesthesia, because gas is not so commonly used here in Europe.

I think the easiest one have taken just 3-4 visits, each maybe upto an hour, but the longest treatments have taken 6-8 visits with all the changes of medication in the roots etc, and it might have taken easily 2 hours each time.

The retreatments take always much more time than the first treatment, because it is very difficult and time consoming to have the old root filling out. I had once a molar retreated by a very young female dentist, and I think she did it like maybe first time. I had 3 sessions on 3 days after each other, taking 2 - 2.5 hours each. She did want to do it that way, because at once it would have taken 6-7 hours and that would have been impossible for both of us I think. And just recently I had a lower molar also retreated, and it was two 3-4 hours visits, plus a one hour visit to fill it.

So if anyone wants to hear or ask about root canal treatments, I think I might be a person to ask from! :-)

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I've had a handful of root canals and I get through them just fine as long as I have:

1. Nitrous oxide turned up to the maximum level so I am high even before the shots.

2. Headphones with loud music so I can't hear the sound of the drilling.

3. A female dental assistant who keeps my mouth clean and free from drilling debris.

I tell the dentist and the assistant, that I will be in the other room listening to Billy Joel and ideally, they will just wake me up when they are completely done. And if they need me to do something during the procedure, and I don't respond to their verbal request, it's because I have the music turned loud enough to cover the drilling and their voices so then they will have to nudge me.

Works great

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I had few of root canal treatments, was rather uncomfortable, my mouth and jaws were really sore after spending good time in dentist chair, and I was numbed so much that for few hours I couldn't feel one side of my mouth. Other time was not enough and nerves were very painful. Don't want to repeat that

In my experience, my tooth would be throbbing by the time I got to the dentist for the root canal. There is a sense of relief after the drilling to the roots. My dental surgeon told me my tooth was starting to abcess so the initial part of the procedure was dealing with that which addressed the pain I was feeling for weeks or months.

Then the procedure becomes painful, the roots are treated, more like pulled out. Even though there is freezing, I still felt quite a bit of pain when the roots were being removed. After that the tooth is sealed and a huge relief of no more sensitivity for that tooth.

My only root canal was quite the roller-coaster. Part of it was done at one dentist's office (that was mostly the removal of the cavity and adjacent weak links in the tooth) and the actual root canal was done somewhere else with the proper equipment. My mouth felt fine, the process was rather peaceful if a little uncomfortable. My mouth was quite numb, along with the left side of my face, for a few hours. I couldn't really smile but I'm glad the Dr was generous with the anesthesia : )