r/Dentistry • u/Mr-Major • 1d ago

Dental Professional Doc my tooth still hurts after I went to the emergency dentist. Thanks dear colleague…

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This picture was taken after a quick consultation. Quick GP fit to see which hole is which. Crown is also loose, patient comes back tomorrow to see if it’s still salvageable. Probably not, I think the tooth is fractured anyway. Luckily the crown isn’t recent.

Canals weren’t even calcified

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u/ragnarok635 1d ago

Tooth is already sectioned. They set that up for you, just pop an elevator in and twist!

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u/Mr-Major 1d ago

Emergency dentist was like: “Do you want me to save you from a trip to the endodontist? Say no more”

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u/seattledoctor1 1d ago

Was this in the US…? Everyone here says “don’t judge other’s work, you weren’t there so you don’t know what happened. But then shit like this pops up and is egregious… screw that other dentist and their trash ass treatment

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u/Mr-Major 21h ago

For in the weekends we have emergency dental practices. Often manned by foreign dentists. It’s often very quick, high bills and low quality work.

I’ve seen a lot of ledges, missed canals, mediocre openings, etc. This is however bad even for them

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u/BotchState34 1d ago

basically gift wrapped at that point lol

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u/painfuldrp 1d ago

Is this that MB2 everyone’s been talking about?

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u/InevitableCat8236 11h ago

Goodbye 💀💀

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u/Macabalony 1d ago

You know. I had a bad day today. My contacts were light. I had to renumb a few IANs. A few EXT broke off at the gingiva and required sectioning. But then I see this as think. I am doing okay.

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u/Wandering_Emu 1d ago

Seeing posts like these is like the dentistry version of watching the old Jerry Springer show. Suddenly, my life seems pretty great!

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u/Worldly_Nobody_2088 1d ago

That does sound like a tough day, if it wasn't part of the joke, I hope you have a better one tomorrow

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u/DDSBadger 1d ago

Those things all happening in the same day is actually an awful day. If I had 2 things go wrong like that I’d be bummed out. If all of those things happened to me in one day I’d probably book a vacation.

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u/Macabalony 18h ago

Some days you're forceps. Some days you're the tooth. I had a tooth day. All better today.

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u/Worldly_Nobody_2088 17h ago

Here's to many forcep days in the future

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u/Dufresne85 1d ago

At least it's to working length

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u/xoxtoothfaeryxox 1d ago

Always the optimist lmao

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u/Worldly_Nobody_2088 1d ago

I was thinking this, like I've seen perfs but perfs to perfect working length through bone is something else - wouldn't they have felt it when using the endo handpiece?

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u/Galaxies24 1d ago

Same question. Maybe beyond the furcation, the GP is going into soft tissue? Please don't mind if that's a silly question, I'm still a dental student.

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u/panic_ye_not 16h ago

It's a better obturation than what they did on the distal...

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u/Sd121287 1d ago

You don’t do your access with an 8 round bur?

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u/Mr-Major 1d ago

The cartwheel you mean?

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u/agbag846 1d ago

Perfect length

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u/garyh1128 1d ago

Dang they found the rare central canal.

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u/FewProtection4587 General Dentist 1d ago

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u/xoxtoothfaeryxox 1d ago edited 1d ago

Are my eyes deceiving me? Did this dentist perforate through the furcation because they thought the GP was in the mesial canal? Did they not take a post op x-ray when they finished?

I don’t think that tooth can be saved…

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u/Mr-Major 1d ago

No I removed the temporary (patient was in pain) and saw the perf. Put a GP point in (and into the distal for good measure) and took this xray, to show to the patient that this should not be outside of the roots

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u/xoxtoothfaeryxox 1d ago

Ah ok. I see. I misunderstood your original post. Thank you for explaining.

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u/Worldly_Nobody_2088 1d ago

Same the caption made it seem like something else

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u/dentour 1d ago

Thats a ballsy move tbh, one look at that furcation at preop and i would have noped out befor u could say anesthesia...

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u/Least-Assumption4357 1d ago

Hmmm, show the preop 😉

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u/Negative_Ride5074 1d ago

Radix perfomolaris

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u/Nonoyster 1d ago

Great pilot hole for an implant

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u/Typical-Town1790 1d ago

But if you just change the angle a little….

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u/Marcobose 1d ago

Premolarification👀

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u/DDSRDH 1d ago

Damn apex locator must be broken again.

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u/floatingsaltmine 1d ago

Trailer park endodontics

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u/Ready_Scratch_1902 1d ago

what country are you in

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u/BigDong1142 1d ago

How does that happen

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u/Horror_Scientist_553 1d ago

U either find a canal or build a canal

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u/km0099 1d ago

It's a boy!

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u/porkadobado 1d ago

Take 2 tylenols and call me in the morning.

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u/Independent_Drop4317 General Dentist 1d ago

On the bright side, the tooth is already sectioned and prob can use a cow horn forecep to completely section and use the elevator to get the two roots out.

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u/Tiaktia 1d ago

What about bleeding?

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u/BackgroundYogurt2846 1d ago

Make your own canal

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u/Nervous_Solution5340 1d ago

Honestly think it’s insane to take a gp film here. Helps the patient zero. Just tell them it’s got to go and pull it. 

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u/N4n45h1 General Dentist 1d ago

Damn they're good. I would have never noticed that radix!

/s

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u/red_sox_man 1d ago

At least the distal canal is super short

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u/wiserecluse75 1d ago

Nothing a little Geristore won't take care of with a long-term follow-up.

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u/Budget_Repair4532 1d ago

Wow. That is unforgivable

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u/FigureOk4219 1d ago

You’re a gp and didn’t have a reputable endo to go to? Sheeeeeet

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u/UglyAndTired9 22h ago

This can't be real

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u/Dear_Response_519 Dental Student 20h ago

Guys is that gutta percha just chilling in there without a root to fill? Is that what that is? This pic is frying my brain im ngl

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u/Prosso 14h ago

Whose liscense is getting thrown into the bin of lost liscenses ? And whose tooth is it ? xD

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u/YoSeanyBoii 13h ago

We found the intraradicular canal

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u/Horror_Scientist_553 1d ago

Seems like they didnt even bother cutting the gutta properly. What country is this from?

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u/jt19912009 1d ago

I hope they have the name of that dentist and sue the shit outta them. Practitioners like that need to be taken out of the pool so they stop giving everyone else a bad wrap