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I wanna whine that dentistry is still in the dark ages. One way a dentist will test if a tooth needs a root canal is to apply electricity to the tooth at increa
by asiachick 6y ago
I wanna whine that dentistry is still in the dark ages. One way a dentist will test if a tooth needs a root canal is to apply electricity to the tooth at increasingly higher levels until it hurts at a level that some, myself at least, would call Jack Bauer level of torture. And, AFAICT it's entirely unreliable. You can make the pain happen in any tooth or at least that's my experience.
- fakedang 6y agoI've had way too many RCTs and I've never been subject to this kind of test. Every where I've been to a dentist, I've always been asked to take an X-ray, in which the extent of damage is clearly visible even to untrained eyes.
- Roark66 6y agoSeriously? Electric shocks? Last time I went to a dentist she did an xray of the tooth that hurt me. Then she showed me the high resolution photo on the computer screen where I could clearly see what looked like a "bubble of something" right beneath one of the roots. This I was told is why I needed root canal treatment. The dentist used handheld xray machine.
- asiachick 6y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=Electric+Pulp+Tester https://www.google.com/search?q=Electric+Pulp+Tester