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What Causes Painful Upper Molar Teeth?
Boxing day evening, I noticed that my upper right last molar hurt when I bit into soft popcorn. I couldn't sleep the entire Friday night, as the tooth ached even when swallowing. The tooth still hurts but is being managed by paracetamol and Orajel every 4 hours. The UR 6 tooth has no adjacent molar next to it. It is a standalone tooth. The adjacent tooth was extracted when root canal failed 4 years ago. The tooth in pain had a filling on it 4 years ago and has turned grey in the last year.
Wed, 4 Feb 2015
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If you go on taking analgesic then you would get good effect of this but this would not be the remedy for this, so need to see the dentist some time this may need some surgical intervention to get rid of this, if the condition is worse then this may need teeth extraction, take care
Well come to HCM
If you go on taking analgesic then you would get good effect of this but this would not be the remedy for this, so need to see the dentist some time this may need some surgical intervention to get rid of this, if the condition is worse then this may need teeth extraction, take care
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Pain and discoloration indicate that the tooth is non-vital and would require an X-ray before root canal treatment is done.
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