root canal, complications, etc.

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So I get in for the root canal. I'm still in my student nurse scrubs because I came straight from the hospital. The root canal dentist (not an endodontist, just a dentist with special training I'm told) tells me he does nothing but root canals all day, every day, and it shouldn't be a problem. I'm like, "Okay, but I want to warn you, I am a sissy about tooth pain, and it's hard to numb me sometimes."
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By Thursday night I look at my gum around the root-canaled tooth in the mirror and it looks black and purple and red and raw and torn and I'm thinking, Uh, that doesn't look right... they didn't do anything to my gums, they drilled straight through the crown... what gives? Not to mention that it was also in throbbing pain that the advils and Tylenol 3s were not getting rid of. Fell asleep with that cheek on an ice pack. Resolved to call dentist in the AM about frighteningly weird looking gum around the root-canaled tooth.
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