#anyway ive had occasional pain in that tooth when i clench my teeth for a year or so but usually goes away after a day or so and never to

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I'm going to note that she didn't put the post-procedure xray up on the screen at a time when I could take a comparison photo, but this is the xray before the endodontist went back in to try re-doing the root canal to see if the tooth can be saved. Also note that she claimed she couldn't see the crack, but acknowledged there's something up with the tooth. And she didn't offer likelihood of successful re-treatment, just had someone else tell me the prices for either successful or unsuccessful retreatment. Now, looking at the xray comparing it to an illustration of what a post-root canal tooth situation should look like (on the right), it's obvious to ME that there's a few issues and that trying to redo it wouldn't necessarily help. First of all, the post she used originally...looks weird, my dentist actually acted like it was really large. Second, there is no visible filling for a certain amount of space under the post, and then what now clearly looks to me like a crack in the root filling is very much visible on the right aide of the tooth! So I'm not sure I should have trusted her at ALL if she claims she doesn't see a crack, when that clearly is supposed to be one solid line of filling within the space of the root. And it's not! And it's possible that the left side is a calcification near the bottom based on another diagram/illustration. It seems clear to me that she didn't want to admit to my face before starting that it wasn't likely to help, that the issues were here and there, and xyz are why it would or would not help and if there's not enough structure here abd there it can't be saved and could cause pain after, etc, whatever the case was, she did not fully inform me, I suspect she knew it wouldn't work but decided to go forward anyway because either way if I went forward she gets $$$, and if she admitted that it wasn't likely, which she Should be able to tell from her extremely high-quality Xray, since my dentist could tell from his regular quality xray, then I would have left with only the consulting fee. Which no one informed me of, btw, prior to being seen, but I'm Sure they had one, even if she barely consulted, so if I'd decided nevermind I'm not gonna do the retreatment, they would've surprised me with that. Probably way too much $, too. As it is, the failed retreatment cost $1200, and ongoing pain in my mouth from her brusque stabbing with the needle for the numbing stuff, and whatever she did to the tooth during, possibly also from the messily-done temporary filling, and tmj pain from my mouth being held open too far for too long. And I'm concerned she made it worse or opened it up to more infection. Basically, I shouldn't have gone to this endodontist, her bedside manner was lacking, she didn't fully inform me Probably bc she wouldn't make as much $ if she had, and I'm in enough pain that the tylenol isn't even working well after 4 hrs. And even if I'd still be in this pain after the extraction, or at least the tmj part, right now I'm afraid it's going to be an ISSUE for the extraction if the muscle is too swollen or the discs are slipped out of position and that's the cause of the pain, I'm afraid I won't be able to have my mouth open enough for the tooth removal next week, and if the pain lasts till then I will cry anyway, and it'll be exponentially worse after the removal I'm sure! I really hope I didn't screw over things with the removal, too.( I'm terrified of that too btw.) And I didn't ask her the likelihood of success but she should have said. Now it's 3am and I've been awake since 2 bc of pain, I've been in pain since 12am but tried to tough it out till 5 when I have to wake up to be at work at 6, but it woke me at 2 bc if was a level 10+ pain. Now I have 1 tylenol in me so I can take a 2nd one at 6/6:30 at work (If I take 2 at once I can only take tylenol 2 more times today which doesn't work. If I stagger them, I can have the effect last longer.)