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If a tooth is painfully sensitive to cold and then develops a constant ache, does this mean it has a cavity?
I'm serious. I've only had one cavity in my life and it was a very small one I didn't realize was there.
::whimpers:: I don't want to get a filling!
ETA: You know, as much as SNL generally sucks these days, I still think Mya Rudolph is hysterical. I wish she'd been on for more of the Will Ferrell/Cheri Oteri days.
I'm serious. I've only had one cavity in my life and it was a very small one I didn't realize was there.
::whimpers:: I don't want to get a filling!
ETA: You know, as much as SNL generally sucks these days, I still think Mya Rudolph is hysterical. I wish she'd been on for more of the Will Ferrell/Cheri Oteri days.
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I wish I'd had it as good. My dentist until age 18 was a damn butcher - he refused to give me Novacaine and every cavity he ever drilled and filled, I had to shut my eyes, grip the armrests, and bear the pain of it. Oh, I was so glad to be an adult and find my own dentist ....
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I don't see any decay...
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My childhood dentist was slightly less vicious. He'd give me novocaine, then refuse to believe me when I told him it still hurt.
A later dentist, who I picked myself, told me about 10% of the population had the same reaction I did, and gave me another shot in a different part of my mouth, and there was no pain. :)
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I don't know; maybe because I didn't complain. I figured it was normal, and I always tried to bear a lot of pain that happened to me because Dad was extremely old-fashioned and chauvinistic, and I think I wanted to prove that a girl could be as tough as a boy and do anything a boy could (of course, I have long since learned most grown men will whine like babies if they have a sniffle, but women are expected to regularly deal with cramps, childbirth, sore breasts, wild mood swings, and all manner of other "normal" maladies for them). I remember one time, when my collarbone was broken, it took me two hours to admit to my parents that it hurt enough so they could take me to the ER. As a result, I have an extremely high threshold for pain, even now - which is good, given that I haven't had the insurance to go to a doctor in six years anyway. *G*
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Does it hurt to bite down on the tooth? If so, you've probably got an infection, which could be related to a cavity or just on its own. Which means you need an antibiotic to knock the infection out.
If not, it's probably a cavity. Cavities sometimes show, and sometimes don't. They can start between the teeth where you can't see them.
Either way, putting it off will only make it worse. A filling is better than a root canal. I know, I've had both.
Get thee to a dentist, woman!
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It could also be the gums, though.
If you don't see anything, I don't know if you get that stuff, but here we have something called "Elmex tooth gel" which is to threat beginning caries without having to drill and fill. Helps regenerating the tooth enamel; it's some high dosage fluroid thing.
If you can get it, it's pretty good, but also completely harmless, you don't even need a prescription for it, though you can only get it at the pharmacy, at least here.
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