if you have a phobia over your teeth due to atypical facial pain so don’t eat anything fearing teeth will fallout would implants help me. I hate my teeth so much but gum pain I can handle as I know it’s not the teeth that may need treatment so I won’t touch any foods at all.
Hey Mandie,
“Will it help?” I’m sorry to say it like this but nobody, not even the medicos can give you a 100% answer on that question. Being that it’s an ‘atypical’ diagnosis, often trying to align that ‘cause vs effect’ can be very difficult. If the medicos could see a direct correlation ie an irritated root of the tooth as a ‘cause’ then surgery may benefit. But when it comes to facial pain or TN (Trigeminal Neuralgia) surgery is NOT always the answer. If the cause is an irritation of the nerve, trying to pinpoint it can be very difficult. Surgical intervention can sometimes cause a loss of sensation and motion related to the nerves involved. Implants are foreign objects in the body and the body can react, triggering more symptoms/pain
Have you consulted an oral surgeon at all? I doubt many dentists would be willing to do a full extraction without a oral surgeons’ opinion. But an oral surgeon would do their own investigation/scans/xrays to make their own assessment (well, they should).
I’d suggest some more investigation would be needed.
Hope it helps
Merl from the Modsupport Team