Tooth Pain After Root Canal

When we were kids, our parents told us, advised us and even scolded us to brush our teeth after every meal or after having sweets, otherwise, we would face lot of troubles related to teeth that would torture us badly. How some people wished they had listened to them and done what they repeatedly told us to do. Then today, we wouldn't have been sitting in the dentist's chair, cribbing about a bad decayed tooth. Tooth problems, even a few years back, were a thing for the old and aged, but now, you will even see kids suffering from tooth decay and having to do a root canal and even tooth extractions, at a very young age. The pain that the person undergoes both during and after the root canal is bad. I am not trying to scare you, but this is the truth. But nothing to worry as your dentist, during the whole procedure will make the affected area numb and you will not be able to feel a single thing except for a few tingles and small tiny jabs of the needles that they will poke into the cavity. It will be almost as if a tiny ant is biting you. So no severe root canal pain. But, a problem arises when several people face tooth pain after root canal. Why does that happen? What can be done to treat it? Well that is what we are going to learn now.

Causes

Sometimes when your teeth aches, it pains a lot; especially after a root canal. To ease the pain, the dentists give you some analgesics. The process of root canal is undergone in order to kill the bacteria that are destroying the teeth and save the tooth from further decay. Due to the bacterial infection, the pulp of the tooth starts decaying. Hence, with the help of the root canal process, the canals are cleaned up.

Some of us experience pain after root canal treatment because the bacteria which are now dying inside the treated tooth, release a toxin just before they expire. It is this toxin which causes pain after procedure. The second cause of the pain might be the healing process which is on after the treatment. If the tooth had been infected badly before the treatment, then the time taken by the tooth to heal after the treatment, is longer, hence the pain after root canal. The pain can either be moderate or severe depending on how serious the infection was.

One might also experience a slight pain in the treated tooth while eating from that side. This could be due to the food particles disrupting the healing process. Talk to your dentist when this happens and avoid eating from that side. Another reason for the pain after the treatment is that although the infected nerves have been removed, the nerves which are surrounding the area outside the tooth which are affected due the infection, and thus the pain.

Avoiding the Pain

When this pain occurs, the first thing that you have to do is inform your dentist. They will give you an analgesic to ease the pain. Also, avoid eating anything too hot or too cold or hard from that side, as the tooth might pain further. If there is any root canal swelling, then the dentist might give you ibuprofen to treat it. Clove oil, a drop of it on the painful area is also great for getting rid of the pain.

Avoid eating anything from that side, before the dentist fits the cap. The area is soft and the temporary filling that is present for the time being, might come out and the food particles might enter the canal and start decaying, thus causing the pain, therefore avoid eating anything at all from that side.

Now, you know what are the various causes and also how one can avoid the pain. If your dentist asks you to do this treatment, then go ahead and do it before things get worse. If the pain becomes severe, immediately inform your dentist. Do not ignore it. I am sure you must be regretting now why you did not maintain proper dental health earlier, then we wouldn't have had to go through this torture. So be brave and go get your treatment done.