Odontoma

[jacksmom931]

I am 48 yrs. old.  This past fall, I was sent by my dentist to have a root canal.   My dentist thought I would need two root canals due to the fact that another tooth had a white onion looking area appear at the root of the tooth next to the tooth that needed the first root canal....to me it looks like an onion bulb....the dentist doing the root canal said it was nothing....now I'm having pain in that same area.  I went back to the dentist who had done the original root canal.   Now, I'm being sent to an oral surgeon for possible diangnosis of an odontoma or a cententoma?  The dentist has sent for my old x-rays from my two prior dentists to compare to see if this has always been there or if it's just developed.  My lower jaw area is beginning to go numb and I'm having some deep jaw throbbing that comes and goes.   Can you help with any other info?
Thanks.


This discussion is related to Anyone heard of Odontoma?.

[nerfherder]

When I was around 11 years old, my dentist pointed out to me on the x-ray that there was some kind of a mass under my baby tooth in my lower jaw which was been preventing my first premolar tooth from growing out. He suspected it was an odontoma tumor and scheduled me to get it removed by an oral surgeon. I didn't get to keep my adult tooth because of the amount of jaw bone they had to cut out. I got to see the tumor they removed (which they said they were going to send to Baylor University for research).  It looked like a bunch of tiny teeth teeth clumped together. They even had little roots.

[Al_in_SoCal]

I had an odontoma removed when I was around 20 years old.  It was under one of my incisors and my adult tooth was impacted into the odontoma so they removed my odontoma, my permanent tooth and left my baby tooth - which today is still working fine.  I'm now 41.

It took oral surgery to have it removed, and I was in the Army at the time so I don't know if it's a "dental" problem or a medical issue.  Definitely benign or mine was at any rate.

[StratRebel]

I would suggest posting in the oral surgery forum.