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Visitor asks:
Hello,
three years ago the dentist removed the nerves (4) from my lower first molar. Since then the pain has accompanied me in intervals; it hurts and then stops. I have noticed that it starts if I am exposed to cold, for example skiing, and more often in winter than in summer. My whole lower jaw hurts, sometimes together with my head. The pain is constant, not throbbing, and it does not hurt on touch or biting. It hurts more lower down, in the jaw, below the teeth. A month ago, at my request, the dentist reopened and closed the tooth, but the pain still does not stop. He says that everything is fine with the non-vital tooth, as well as with all the other teeth according to the X-ray. I am now going to have a wisdom tooth removed that is growing horizontally into the other teeth. At the examination, however, the surgeon told me that the pain is definitely not caused by the wisdom tooth.
I am now very worried.
I would like to know your opinion.
Thank you very much and kind regards,
Alja
Dentist Tomaž Rotar answers:
Dear Sir/Madam!
It is impossible to answer the question without a clinical and X-ray examination. I believe that you can trust the specialists who have already been making the diagnosis. If they have excluded all "usual causes", it may be wise to suspect neuralgic pain.
Have a nice day!
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