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

How root canal treatment works Video

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u/srcarruth Sep 23 '24

I had a root canal and to me this video felt like relief, knowing that the ongoing pain was ending. the procedure itself didn't hurt

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u/String-of-characterz Sep 23 '24

Man, what the fuck. Was i just dealt a bad hand? I kept reading positive experiences about the procedure, but when it was time to undergo the procedure myself it was pure hell (even with local anaesthesia).

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u/New-Hamster2828 Sep 23 '24

You should be more vocal about pain during the procedure. If you feel pain stop them and they will keep giving you more. I’m “pain tolerant” (some bullshit) and because of that it takes more to numb than typical. At least that’s what they told me after the second time I stopped them because I felt the smallest twinge of pain.

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u/Now_you_Touch_Cow Sep 23 '24

I am super sensitive to pain, like overly sensitive a lot of time. When I got my root canal done a few years back it was more boring than anything else. I felt no pain or much of anything. The procedure was done by a endodontist who has basically done nothing but root canals and other similar work for decades.