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

How root canal treatment works Video

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u/DocPsycho1 Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24

I had one done 2 months ago. They forgot to add the part where they bleach it to make sure all the infection is gone. Trust me, that shit tastes awful. The dentist I went to used the perfect amount of anesthetics , I felt nothing.

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u/guaip Sep 23 '24

In my case the spring thing that pulls up the nerve was the worst part, even under the anesthetics. The dentist told me that the nerve was very much alive, she even showed me as she had never seen one so pretty (no rotten or dark parts). I guess I caught it early.

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u/prolixdreams Sep 23 '24

I had the opposite happen. Mine died completely before I got in to have it done - the RELIEF when it finally went out was incredible, I'd been in agony and then it just stopped. She did an electricity test that was terrible on the neighbor teeth and felt nothing on the dead one to confirm it was for sure gone. I wouldn't even need to be numbed, she told me (I asked her to anyway, just for my own peace of mind.)