Root canals how do you know if you need one and do they hurt?!
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Root canals how do you know if you need one and do they hurt?
Okay, so I had come cavities the last time I went to the dentist and I've had SO much going on that I wasn't able to get back. I'm going tomorrow and now I'm concerned that I'll have to have a root canal. I have no pain in my teeth, but I'm a big baby when it comes to the dentist so I'm probably concerned about nothing. How do you know if you need a root canal? And are they painful to have done? Because I'm freaked out beyond belief that I'll end up needing one.
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I've had a root canal done, and it's no big deal. They will numb you with novacaine until you feel absolutely nothing. Then, they will open the top of the tooth, and take a very thing tube, and put it down into the tooth, and use it almost like a sander, to get all of the nerve out of the tooth, you feel nothing. After the novacaine wears off, there is very little discomfort, nothing a couple tylenol can't take care of.