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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / December 2005Ping Helen S. [OT] Teeth Problems
Helen, how did you make out at the dentist's Monday? Are you feeling better, has the abscess gone? I went to the oral surgeon last night (my regular dentist didn't want to do the root canal because I had weird, branching, curving roots on that tooth. I ended up getting *TWO* root canals (the adjacent tooth had some "resorbtion" and needs periodontal work and the periodontist won't do any work like this without a root canal being done first). One root canal went fine, but on the tooth with the weird roots, the surgeon broke off the drill bit inside the root of my tooth. He couldn't get the broken drill bit back out again, so he just filled the tooth around it and told me to come back if it abscesses!!!!!!!! He didn't even give me any pain meds, just told me to take Advil every 6 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And my portion of the bill was $635.00 (I think he actually charged me for the broken drill bit)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I have to go to a periodontist and have the resorbtion problem taken care of, and then I need to get crowns on three teeth (I'd never gotten a crown on the tooth that had a root canal 3 years ago - the "temporary" filling is still there!). I don't know where I'm going to get the thousands of dollars to do all this work, so I'm hoping the temporary fillings he put in hold out for another couple of years instead of the 3 - 4 weeks he said they would like the other one did!). Hugs, CatNipped > Helen, how did you make out at the dentist's Monday? Are you feeling > better, has the abscess gone? [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > CatNipped Yikes, Lori! That's totally unacceptable. How are you managing? How much pain are you in? kili > > Helen, how did you make out at the dentist's Monday? Are you feeling > > better, has the abscess gone? [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > kili Not any actually - or at least not any that isn't being handled by the Advil. I guess I've developed a high pain threshold since I've been living with Fibromyalgia and degenerative disk disease for so long. Hugs, CatNipped > Helen, how did you make out at the dentist's Monday? Are you feeling > better, has the abscess gone? Greetings I still have abscess. It has burst... into my mouth.. I'm on more antibiotics. Apparently the fact it is draining into my mouth is a good thing. If it had burst on the inside of the abscess, it could have gone into the bone of the jaw which is not, apprently, at all nice. I'm due to have the offending item removed via intravenvous sedation on 20th December. It currently doesn't hurt - the draining has released the pressure build-up, but I have the mother of all sore throats (surprise, surprise..) Snipped tale of horror.. Methinks the dentist should be examining these thousands of dollars... after all, *he* broke the drill in your jaw.... Any sort of patient advocate system you can approach over there? As regards costs for what I'm having done - the dentists said all the work she is doing on me - no charge! So I'll have to pay for the anaesthetist doing the IV sedation, but not for the dental work itself - I've already had an x-ray & various examinations as well as loads of antibiotics. The current dentist is remarkably humane. I'd recommend her to you if you were over here! Cheers, helen s > > Helen, how did you make out at the dentist's Monday? Are you feeling > > better, has the abscess gone? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I still have abscess. It has burst... into my mouth.. I'm on more > antibiotics. Oh my! That doesn't sound very pleasant - purrs coming that it will clear up quickly. > Apparently the fact it is draining into my mouth is a good thing. If it had > burst on the inside of the abscess, it could have gone into the bone of the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Methinks the dentist should be examining these thousands of dollars... after > all, *he* broke the drill in your jaw.... No because he won't be doing the other work - that will be either a periodontist or my regular dentist. But I really thought he should have given me a discount - which he didn't! > Any sort of patient advocate > system you can approach over there? As regards costs for what I'm having [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > well as loads of antibiotics. The current dentist is remarkably humane. I'd > recommend her to you if you were over here! Actually, it wasn't bad - I was zonked out on nitrous oxide the whole 4 hours (I'm a cheap drunk - never actually having drunk liquor! ;>). No pain afterwards, just the queasy sensation of thinking of that bit of metal lodged in my root canal!!! Hugs, CatNipped > Cheers, helen s Lots of purrs for your abscess to heal really soon, Polonca and Soncek > I still have abscess. It has burst... into my mouth.. I'm on more > antibiotics. > Apparently the fact it is draining into my mouth is a good thing. <snip> <snip> > One root canal went fine, but on the tooth with the weird roots, the > surgeon [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > portion of the bill was $635.00 (I think he actually charged me for the > broken drill bit)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hang on a minute. A broken drill is left in the root of your tooth and your dental surgeon fills around it?? I can hardly believe what I am hearing. Is he mad? He must be registered with some sort of association of dentists like they are here, get on to them immediately. The potential for infection must be off the scale and foreign bodies are not tolerated well in the human body. I can hardly believe it!! Don't you say our doctors are no good again <g> if this is what your dentists do. Shudder. Tweed > <snip> > >> [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Tweed No kidding! ;> Actually I've found that it is not that uncommon (though hardly usual, either) to break the drill during a root canal. The root of the tooth narrows down to little wider than the width of a hair, so the drill bit is very fragile. And the end of that particular root was curved on me (that's why my regular dentist didn't want to do the root canal and sent me to an oral surgeon instead). He said he had already washed it out with bleach several times, the drill bit was sterilized, and it was at the very end of the root less than a millimeter from the end, so that filling in around it shouldn't (*shouldn't*) give me any problems. I don't think there is any way that it could get infected unless the temporary filling comes loose (which means I really will have to see my regular dentist to get a crown done). This picture is of a "normal" tooth. The roots on my tooth were curved around in a 90 degree angle at the bottom: http://legacy.uwcm.ac.uk/study/dentistry/adh/images/Image5.jpg Hugs, CatNipped >> <snip> >> >> [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > > CatNipped I would still not be happy about it myself, I have read the links. As long as you are satisfied with the treatment you got, that's okay. Tweed I got curious and googled about drill bits being left in teeth during root canals and got this... http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.dentistry/browse_thread/thread/25c367a8ed fe1b13/c7ede42b286d073a%23c7ede42b286d073a?sa=X&oi=groupsr&start=0&num=3 or http://tinyurl.com/crtmr Hugs, CatNipped > <snip> > >> [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Tweed Lots of purrs and besst wishes that the drill bit does not cause you any problem, Polonca and Soncek > I got curious and googled about drill bits being left in teeth during root > canals and got this... [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > CatNipped > Helen, how did you make out at the dentist's Monday? Are you feeling > better, has the abscess gone? [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > CatNipped Good grief, Lori! What an ordeal. And he charged you after breaking the drill bit off *inside* your tooth? And filling in around it? Sounds unconscionable to me. I'm right there with you in hoping it lasts like the temp filling did. {{{{{{{{{{{{ Lori }}}}}}}}}}}} Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe >Helen, how did you make out at the dentist's Monday? Are you feeling >better, has the abscess gone? [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > >CatNipped Having the drill bit sealed inside the tooth sounds like it would guarantee an infection. If you start seeing any signs of infection, deal with it as soon as possible.  SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > One root canal went fine, but on the tooth with the weird roots, the > surgeon broke off the drill bit inside the root of my tooth. He [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > of years instead of the 3 - 4 weeks he said they would like the > other one did!). Just saw this ... dental stuff sucks! IIRC a root canal by a surgeon is usually about $850 before insurance steps in. So unfortunately, for two, $635 seems about right =/ Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca >> One root canal went fine, but on the tooth with the weird roots, the >> surgeon broke off the drill bit inside the root of my tooth. He [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > IIRC a root canal by a surgeon is usually about $850 before insurance > steps in. So unfortunately, for two, $635 seems about right =/ That's british pounds though isn't it? Which is roughly twice our dollar I believe. Grace >>> One root canal went fine, but on the tooth with the weird roots, >>> the surgeon broke off the drill bit inside the root of my tooth. [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Grace I'm in the US. I could be misremembering the cost of my root canal this year, though. Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > >>> One root canal went fine, but on the tooth with the weird roots, > >>> the surgeon broke off the drill bit inside the root of my tooth. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > I'm in the US. I could be misremembering the cost of my root canal > this year, though. My insurance pays 80%, so you can figure from there - the $635 was my portion of the bill. However, they charged me extra for the nitrous oxide (I don't know how much that was specifically, though). Hugs, CatNipped > My insurance pays 80%, so you can figure from there - the $635 was > my portion of the bill. However, they charged me extra for the > nitrous oxide (I don't know how much that was specifically, though). At least they gave it to you! Then again, my root canal was on a tooth whose nerve tissue was already mostly dead. But it was a very difficult procedure, with even the surgeon clearly upset, and I would have liked to have been a little .... floaty for it, rather than tense. Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca >>>> One root canal went fine, but on the tooth with the weird roots, >>>> the surgeon broke off the drill bit inside the root of my tooth. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > I'm in the US. I could be misremembering the cost of my root canal > this year, though. No you're not misremembering. But if the price is comparible then Helen was charged twice as much as we normally are. >>>>> One root canal went fine, but on the tooth with the weird roots, >>>>> the surgeon broke off the drill bit inside the root of my tooth. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >>>>> portion of the bill was $635.00 (I think he actually charged me >>>>> for the broken drill bit)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [snip] >>>> Just saw this ... dental stuff sucks! >>>> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > No you're not misremembering. But if the price is comparible then > Helen was charged twice as much as we normally are. Okay, now I'm really confused. The above quote ("weird roots" etc) was from CN (Lori), not Helen, right? Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > >>>>> One root canal went fine, but on the tooth with the weird roots, > >>>>> the surgeon broke off the drill bit inside the root of my tooth. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > Okay, now I'm really confused. The above quote ("weird roots" etc) was > from CN (Lori), not Helen, right? Natural mistake - both Helen and I were suffering with tooth problems, but I was the one who had the two root canals. Hugs, CatNipped > Okay, now I'm really confused. The above quote ("weird roots" etc) was > from CN (Lori), not Helen, right? Gah, you're right. I'm sorry for the confusion ;) It's been an off day for me. >> Okay, now I'm really confused. The above quote ("weird roots" etc) >> was from CN (Lori), not Helen, right? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > It's been an off day for me. No big =) I was wondering if I'd missed something. Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > No you're not misremembering. But if the price is comparible then Helen > was charged twice as much as we normally are. I haven't been charged anything yet :) Cheers, helen s |
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