pain before and after root canal

[lusciousangel]

I recently got a big cavity filled and satayed in a little bit of pain but by day 4 i was waking up in the middle of the night crying in pain he decided to take out the filling and see what happens i had a bit of relief but not much so he decided to do a root canal but after the freezing came out i was in more excruciating pain and got a prescription for demerol now 3 days later im still in pain demerol isnt helping and my jaw includint the tooth and about 4 other teeth beside it are very painful i dont understand please help!!!!

[Jerome Tsang, DDS]

You may need to go back to your dentist to see if they may need to re-open up the root canal to find a possible canal that may have been missed.  There is alot of variation in anatomy of people and sometimes people have extra canals that are small and can be missed but it may be that particular canal which is causing the pain.

I would definitely recommend going for a follow up as the pain should subside and improve after treatment.

The pain to other teeth may be what we term referred pain.  The nerve tracks tend to criss cross and join together and it confuse the brain a little and feel like pain is elsewhere as well.

[Jerome Tsang, DDS]

If your doctor is performing a root canal, it should be "out of occlusion," meaning that the doctor should've reduced the height of the tooth to prevent pain after the initial therapy of a root canal.  Its the most common reason for pain after the start of a root canal.  The needles you refer to are endodontic files and are used to remove tissue in the canal and to shape it for a filling material.  These files remove the infected tissue so if he's using them, it should be doing the job of removing the badly infected tissue.

[lusciousangel]

thank you for your help but i aswell suffer from what they call TMJ and im finding it hard to determine if most of the pain is from my jaw or the needled or the root canal it is not finished yet they still have to fill it with something and so on i have been going to the dentist every week for procedures due to the fact that i have just recieved benefits so i am getting poked and played with constatly and thinking that maby im getting more needles before the other ones can heal. and as well as thinking that maby i am biting down on it at night wich could possibly be causing it to take longer for the pain to go away .