I had a root canal about a year ago. The pain started in the tooth and not the gum. It actually hurts more in the tissue below the gum line. It’s not gum disease so what is it?
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I had a root canal about a year ago. The pain started in the tooth and not the gum holding the tooth but the tissue below that.
It’s back again… what does this mean… the root canal was bad or what. It actually hurts more in the tissue below the gum line. It’s not gum disease so what is it…pain pills only help a little.
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There are many a times when the failure of the root canal treatment can cause the adverse effects and pain, a few months after the treatment is completed.
One of the common reasons for this is the reinfection that may occur at the root area, embedded within the gums.
We call it the periapical infection, which occurs again in the same area or by spreading from other areas.
The pain occurring due to this infection would be subsided with the pain killers for only a small time, but the pain won't be eliminated completely. If that is not the reason, the other can be any complication that occurred due to the improper treatment, which too occurs some time after the treatment.
The only thing you can do is to visit the dentist and get it checked with the help of X-ray, whether the infection persisted there or is there any other reason for that.
As it happens with many others, the root canal treatment may have failed and so is the after-effect of the treatment.
