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Originally Posted by azfan
It's interesting what some have written about waiting. I woke up one morning in terrible pain. Next day was ok. Day after that same thing happend. I walked out to get some aspirin, and split my head open on the wall in the hall. Went to a dentist later, found out two teeth were infected, then took my cat to a vet and found he had two weeks to live. How was that for a morning!
But i was so scared of the operation i waited several more days. I was in such pain, i'd drink hot tea, and then drink something ice cold, anything to numb the pain. That's why when i had the root canals, they were a lot better than the pain, though i laid there praying through the whole thing. An endodontist did the root canals, a regular doctor the crowns. I had had a deep cavity in one of teeth years earlier, and the tooth never felt quite right. But not to the point that i thought something was wrong. So eventually it got infected, then infected the tooth next to it.
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Yeh, it's much better to have something done asap. The reason is that it may eventually lead to an extraction if you don't do it when you have to. Fortunately, I don't feel pain, but my dentist was straight up and explained to me that it's better to do it now then to wait and face extraction. Look it up, it's 100 times worse and overall it's disgusting.
Nowadays, it's only old ass people who are willing to do extractions. And I'm talking like in their 80s. I've been told that their reasoning is that "well I'll die any day now so the hell with it". But, I don't know if that's true.