so that pain in my jaw really is something
Serves me right for avoiding the dentist for the last 15 years. For the last couple of months, I'd been having a throbbing pain in my left jaw coupled with inability to tolerate cold products. It came to a head the week before my exam and so I made an appt with a dentist to see what the heck was going on
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I've had more than my share of root canals over the years - five, if I am remembering correctly. But I apparently have a high pain threshold in my teeth, as they didn't bother me all that much. I've known other people who had a harder time with it. Be prepared to use ibuprofen and eat soft foods afterwards.
The biggest piece of advice I can give you is this: make sure they give you a jaw block (aka: triangle-ish piece of semi-hard rubber to put between your teeth on the opposite side from where they will be working). The first root canal I had they didn't give me one of those and I had to *hold* my mouth open the whole time... ugh! That was painful. With the jaw block in place, you're just resting your teeth on the rubber, and it keeps your mouth open.
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If you have trouble with headaches (predominantly on the side you will be getting the root canal done on) - it might get better after the root canal! I used to get migraines about once a month before I got all my dental work done. Now, I rarely have migraines! I used to be able to trace a straight line up from my affected tooth, across the cheekbone and to a point in my eyebrow - exactly where I used to feel the migraine pain.
Now I just get headaches due to TMJ! whee!
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If you're drunk enough you'll forget you were in pain - heck you might even forget you had a root canal! Just don't forget to pick Chaotic and I up at the airport (so you have a sober up for a few hours... sorry) :P
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