Hi everyone.
A few years ago I had a tooth snap right off. Saw a lovely dentist who was very sympathetic to someone with TN and he found an abscess on the x-rays that he thought could of been there for up to a year by the size of it (he was hoping it was the cause of my TN, sadly no). The abscess had basically killed off my tooth.
Monday I chipped a tooth. Not your usual snap off a point, it's in a weird place which makes me worried. I immediately rang around and found a dentist that offers IV sedation (the previous one was when I was living in another city). I have an appointment tomorrow for the consult to see what is wrong. The actual dental work doesn't worry me as I'll be getting IV sedation for it whatever it is. What does stress me out is the remaining 2 teeth look dodgy and now one has chipped. Because of TN none of us would know if we have toothache like a normal person and go get it fixed early :( I don't want 3 missing teeth in a row and I am NOT getting root canals on my TN side, no freaking way. I now have a horrible taste in my mouth so there's infection somewhere.
Does anyone have any advice on how to survive the consult, mirrors and hook things and x-ray plates in your mouth? My TN is a lot worse than last time as it's about 2 years down the track. I'm currently on Tegretol XR, nortriptyline and take tramadol for long attacks.