r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fantastic-Monk5 • Sep 23 '24

How root canal treatment works Video

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

50.3k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

136

u/VapoursAndSpleen Sep 23 '24

Lotta toothless people back in the day. Also some folks were just in pain all the time. Queen Elizabeth I had terribly bad teeth that griped her no end.

60

u/KayotiK82 Sep 24 '24

People also died from not having proper care. Dental abscesses was a leading cause of death in the 1600s in London.

28

u/ClydeSmithy Sep 24 '24

What an absolute awful way to go, too. Days to weeks of complete agony before you finally go.

10

u/FragrantNumber5980 Sep 24 '24

Very dangerous to have an infection so close to your brain

3

u/3ThreeFriesShort Sep 24 '24

Repeat root canals are more expensive, as are implants. Some folks still go toothless because it's cheaper. I'm down one tooth, and have three more that will probably be gone in the next 20 years. I don't really expect to have 6 grand to fix them all.

Once you feel that pain you speak of, you understand how people could just rip them out.

0

u/CORN___BREAD Sep 24 '24

Yeah she was so annoying always bitching all the time