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Kingsolomanhere t1_iwkqtrs wrote

Reply to comment by danger_zone123 in TIL In the 19th and 20th century, there were dozens of documented cases of people's teeth exploding in their mouths. Primitive metal fillings were suspected to be the cause. by haddock420

I had this happen to a perfectly fine tooth. No cavity, no filling. Started aching, then intense overwhelming pain for a few days. It finally cracked open right down the middle and the pain stopped. The dentist pulled it and we discovered the root had somehow become infected. The pressure built until it exploded. It was the most pain I have ever felt

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Ashaa_aali t1_iwlmiln wrote

My tooth didn’t explode, but your experience made me remember something I imagine to be similar in pain. At the very beginning of covid, they wouldn’t do any type of surgery/dental work with anesthesia that wasn’t an absolute emergency/necessary. So I had to get a tooth pulled with just numbing(it was a molar). It shattered when the dentist tried pulling it out, leaving the roots in my gums, and the nerve in the center of my tooth completely exposed. Having my tongue touch the nerve was so unbelievably excruciating, a whole new level of pain. And they wouldn’t remove it completely until 3 months later. So that nerve was just sitting in my mouth (back bottom right). Even saliva touching it caused excruciating pain all over the whole half of my face and neck. I lost 30 pounds because I couldnt eat, I couldnt drink water so I became extremely dehydrated, I couldn’t brush my teeth or use mouth wash. So it lead to more issues with other teeth because I couldn’t clean my mouth like I usually would. I don’t know how they didn’t think that was an emergency to remove it. Tooth pain is no joke. I get chills just remembering the pain. I imagine what you went through was a similar excruciating, torturous pain.

Edit:grammar and added a word.

AND… they actually made me pay for this absolute fuck up of dental work. I had to pay $350 to be in excruciating pain for three months.

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Kingsolomanhere t1_iwlohby wrote

That's messed up. Thank god my dentist didn't think that way, I never missed a cleaning and had one tooth pulled since 2020.

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Beklaktuar t1_iwmwber wrote

I know what it feels like to have an exposed nerve so I probably would have bought a gun and made them take it out at gunpiont and then shot them in the knee after as payback. What the hell were they thinking!

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Ashaa_aali t1_iwmztzc wrote

I’d be lying if I said that didn’t cross my mind. I was desperate. I’ve been through a lot of painful medical trauma that caused me to go into shock because the pain was so severe. But absolutely NOTHING compares to tooth pain, am I right?!?!

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