Root Canal Therapy

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Originally Posted by fja711

Good indications that a tooth needs a root canal are if heat makes the tooth throb or ache, if it wakes you up a night, or if chewing on it causes a toothache. If the tooth is senstive to cold and only hurts when you bite just right but does not cause a lingering tooth ache (sharpe pain that hurts only for the instant), you probably don't need a root canal but probably need a crown. In that case, the diagnosis would be a cracked tooth rather than a dead tooth.

Caution: I am kinda wasted so if what I'm saying makes no sense, Ill type it again later. Haha.

But it hurts whenever I eat pretty much except soft foods. Heat doesn't do anything and Cold is a crap shoot: sometimes it hurts sometimes it doesn't. Eating solid foods tend to cause a lingering tooth ache that soon subsides, but on the regular it doesn't hurt. But the hole where the filling is/was looks terrible.