Comments on: A Sexy Root Canal?

By: Nikita Nikolaev

Nikita Nikolaev — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:00:54 +0000

Excellent! Thank you very much!

By: Periapex

Periapex — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:59:15 +0000

Sounds like things should go in the right direction.

By: Nikita Nikolaev

Nikita Nikolaev — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:49:57 +0000

Oh, I see.

I actually have just come back from the dentist office. He used that little camera to look at my tooth in inside it closer; the screen that projected the picture was right above in front of me, so I could see everything. It was so frightening! I never thought that the hole that’s drilled is so large! It was almost as large as the tooth itself, as much as it seemed to me. Ugh…

He’s going to see me back in two weeks.

He also said that the infection area has grown big and so it’ll be another two or so days that I feel some pain when pushing on the tooth. He told me to continue take that antibiotic. Would you say everything should be fine?

By: Periapex

Periapex — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:54:46 +0000

The filling on the biting surface is a temporary material. The black area is a cotton pellet that is removed with the temp prior to the permanent filling work on the tooth.

Endodontists usually refer patients back to their regular dentists for the restorative work.

By: Nikita Nikolaev

Nikita Nikolaev — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:22:57 +0000

Oh my God! Is that what my tooth is going to look like tomorrow morning? I already start fearfully shaking…

What is that black area between the filling and the Gutta-Percha?

By: Periapex

Periapex — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:05:22 +0000

Thanks for dropping by!

By: tirdad

tirdad — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:16:01 +0000

hi, i m a dentist from iran, and i m a assistant of endodontics too, glad to meet your site

By: Periapex

Periapex — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:13:56 +0000

I use rotaries for the majority of instrumentation, so I consider it micro-screwing…

By: jeanie

jeanie — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:50:34 +0000

that above comment was mine too btw… just trying to figure out the new word-press system

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:49:41 +0000

in a somewhat related note, someone in my class called endodontics ‘micro-wanking’.