Toothache

A couple of teeth started to hurt on the drive home from work earlier. I had stopped by Panini Kabob Grill in Santa Ana to pick up dinner for myself but ended up eating only a few grains of rice due to the pain. As I wrote before, I think my teeth problems advanced so fast was partially due to my toxic blood while on peritoneal dialysis. Some of it was just sheer fatigue where I would stay in bed all day, and the rest is just general laziness when it comes to dental hygiene. I did at some point, got dental clearance for a transplant but things went downhill pretty fast.

Anyway, I spent a lot of time at the endodontist and dentist early this year for some root canals. One of the tooth that is hurting had a root canal and was crowned. This is the last molar on the top right of my mouth. It’s not the wisdom tooth since all of those were removed. There seems to be another extracted tooth there as well so maybe the third tooth in? Likewise, the bottom molar in the same position is hurting. This one I expected. They did not do a root canal on the bottom tooth since the endodontist said he likely could not save it. It is marked for extraction but my dentist wanted to crown everything else first. Well, I guess I lost the race. The tooth started hurting before we could extract it. I took my last two precious Tylenol with Codeine #3 tablets earlier. I don’t feel it helping that much so maybe it would be hurting a lot more without the drugs. I have an appointment with the dentist on Wednesday to put in some crowns. I don’t know if he was going to do the extraction or send me out somewhere. Hopefully the top tooth is hurting because the nerve is connected somehow, and not that it needs more work.