₦airaland Forum

mexxy1:
Stop giving false information. The bolded is incorrect.

I'm in my early 40's and all my teeth are intact and without issues save for the extracted molar that didn't grow back because it's a permanent teeth. And, my last extraction was done 20+ years ago while I was in secondary school.

The premolar that was extracted when I was very young grew back.

Don't give false information without having facts. Thank you.

removal of tooth is not the treatment of the infection... That is the summary of what I'm syaing, all this one you dey talk na you own.

Lutherblaq:
Can a tooth with a large hole be cured without extraction?

Asking for my kid bro

Remove it before it spread to others. Don't let anyone deceive you, whatever you choose to use e.g touch n go will be temporary.....the pain will reappear 2-3 yrs later

Remove it now and be free forever

cedricksly:
removal of tooth is not the treatment of the infection... That is the summary of what I'm syaing, all this one you dey talk na you own.

Best solution is removal

If you have a bad disc brake.....do you repair or remove it?

Regular use of longrich toothpaste will fill it up in no time. Don't rinse your mouth after each brush. Let your saliva do that for you. You will call to thank me later.

Ebonygeek:
He might have to remove it or do a root canal treatment. For a root canal, the tooth is usually leveled and an artificial metal crown is usually created and placed on top of it.

Make sure he sees an experienced dentist (preferably one at a teaching hospital) so that the problem won't be worsened.

On another note, time is running out, dear friend. God loves everyone and wants all of us to come to his kingdom. There's life after death. Unfortunately, Satan and his agents are doing everything in their power to distract humans and make them sin against God. There's a war going on that most people aren't aware of.

Matthew 24:14 KJV
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Evangelists and pastors all over the world are working hard every day to make the gospel reach everywhere. Time is running out!

Wake up!

You tried.l love your style. Keep it up.Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

So what is the solution to decayed tooth or painful tooth?

GerogeI:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C667buPSYmq/?igsh=MjVldWVjdHJtbGx2

Lutherblaq:
Can a tooth with a large hole be cured without extraction?

Asking for my kid bro

Go to the dentist, you will probably be doing a root canal therapy

Love800:
So if someone removes his/her tooth, the bacteria will spread to another tooth?

Yes it most likely would. Most people who got theirs removed faced the same problem on a different tooth after some time.

femi4:
Best solution is removal

If you have a bad disc brake.....do you repair or remove it?

extraction is the last resolve if the tooth can not be saved... First is RCT

Lutherblaq:
Can a tooth with a large hole be cured without extraction?

Asking for my kid bro

This thing has to be removed, like yesterday.

So how do we treat the infection?

cedricksly:
it is called a "root" canal infection for a reason... If u remove the teeth and the infection isn't treated it will spread through the gun to another teeth. Don't belive me, seek dental advise and hear for yourself. Just that it is easier and less to remove teeth than to treat the infection... DON'T REMOVE IT.

cedricksly:
extraction is the last resolve if the tooth can not be saved... First is RCT

It's the best. I have been there, did all manner of alternatives, the pain always come back 2-3yrs later until it was finally removed

Okay.

So what is the solution to tooth problem?

Mubby4luv:
Yes it most likely would. Most people who got theirs removed faced the same problem on a different tooth after some time.

Love800:
Okay.

So what is the solution to tooth problem?

I don't know but I just shared what worked for me.

Alright.
Lemme share my situation. I have remove two tooth. I can sense another tooth acting funny(wants to start aching). Extraction is on my mind, once it has started. But with what i have read in this thread, i will do everything in my power to keep it.

Thanks and may God bless.

Mubby4luv:
I don't know but I just shared what worked for me.

Love800:
Alright.
Lemme share my situation. I have remove two tooth. I can sense another tooth acting funny(wants to start aching). Extraction is on my mind, once it has started. But with what i have read in this thread, i will do everything in my power to keep it.

Thanks and may God bless.

Oh oh, sorry about that. Yes please exhaust your options first before removing. Get cloves and fresh garlic with little salt. Grind and mix together then apply on the tooth and gums. preferably apply it and go to bed with it in your mouth.

Please how can one prevent such from happening ??

You better remove that thing

GerogeI:
This is no longer a novel issue. Google will give you plenty of reviews,even from dentists.
https://www.naturalandcosmeticdentistry.com/the-truth-about-root-canals-how-are-they-affecting-your-health/#:~:text=What%20are%20the%20dangers%3F,in%20the%20head%20or%20neck.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C667buPSYmq/?igsh=MjVldWVjdHJtbGx2

The first link is not opening.

The second is the IG page of a Dentist who calls herself a biologic Dentist.

She supports Implants instead of root canal treatments because rcts fail. But guess what?

Implants fail too, especially when done by inexperienced Operators or due to patient factors, Implants can cause infections too (periimplantitis).


Now I ask again, pls share scientific evidence/ research based evidence that rcts cause the bones to rot and not IG pages or naturalist sites.

You use your phone because science approved it, we use cars, we use ACs, because we trust science. Don't chuck science away when you need to win an argument.

Provide evidence.

Now, Root canals fail, especially if the teeth are not crowned.

Contrary to your claim that it causes the bone to rot, there's plenty evidence that it allows bone that was being destroyed to grow back around the root(s) of treated teeth, meaning it encourages new bone formation.

Get a sensodyne tooth paste called Repair and protect and thank me later. It is foreign and very expensive and can be gotten from a good supermarket, or if you have someone in USA the person can help you get it there. Once you start using it the teeth will heal.

Now, I told myself I would no longer advice Nigerians again because we are peculiar and no dey hear word but I'll break my rule this one time.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Go for regular dental check ups, don't wait until the whole tooth is bad and it starts affecting other teeth or causes swelling and pain before getting it treated.

We buy skincare products, I can't count how many pages on Ig sell them. Even physical stores.

We take care of our hair, our nails, we invest in our ward robe because we want to look good.

New restaurants are springing up in every corner of the country.

We fix our phones once they have slight faults, computer village is always bustling, many of us use phones worth hundreds of thousands of naira.


Yet we draw the line when it gets to our health and look for the cheap way out.

So many good looking men and women with poor oral hygiene, unsightly calculus on their teeth and stains, terrible mouth odour and missing teeth.

We wait until wounds get out of hand before remembering that hospitals exist.

I saw a woman with late stage breast cancer, I asked why she didn't come earlier (she had a breast swelling for many years) she said it wasn't paining her. So she left the lumps to grow bigger, now she has metastases all over her body. Her kids were practically threatening emergency Doctors to save her and refused referral to another centre as there was no bedspace in that centre.

So many relatives that will bring their relatives to the hospital when they are near death (from diseases and conditions that could have been successfully managed in the early stages), then start threatening fire and brimstone and cursing health personnel for their perceived 'lackadaisical attitude'. Someone you were giving herbs at home for years o, it is now a stranger from nowhere that should love and help save your relative more than you.

Some will use all sort of supplements for years and when the pain is out of hand, they come to the hospital and start fomenting trouble.

We are not serious, I don't think we will ever be serious.

Your brother has a hole, he probably has serious pain, you are here on Nairaland listening to people telling you to use garlic and salt.

Continue pls, thumbs up to everyone. Continue.

Creamypie:
Damn. Tooth ache worse than birth or labour pains. Oga use short oral b tooth paste or herbal close up e go kill the bacteria (pain), but the tooth go remain like that. Permanently dormant

How do you do that, or is it just using it to brush?

Now, if you even observe the picture the Op posted, apart from the tooth with a large hole, there's a molar with a cavity too, a cavity that is still small and I'm sure is not hurting yet.

Common sense won't tell you to fill that hole too o.

If he ends up removing the one with the large hole and in a year or more or less, the other one with the small hole becomes large too and causes pain, you will now say the worms were jumping from one tooth to another.

You will lambast medical personnel, you will say all sorts.

Meanwhile a 15,000 naira filling, 3,800- 5,000 naira xray and 1,000 -3,000 Consultation will fill/ restore that tooth conveniently and prevent future problems.

With people like these, it will take a very long time before this country sees any meaningful development, as in, the thought patterns of many of us scare me.

Sewasaunt:
The first link is not opening.

The second is the IG page of a Dentist who calls herself a biologic Dentist.

She supports Implants instead of root canal treatments because rcts fail. But guess what?

Implants fail too, especially when done by inexperienced Operators or due to patient factors, Implants can cause infections too (periimplantitis).


Now I ask again, pls share scientific evidence/ research based evidence that rcts cause the bones to rot and not IG pages or naturalist sites.

You use your phone because science approved it, we use cars, we use ACs, because we trust science. Don't chuck science away when you need to win an argument.

Provide evidence.

Now, Root canals fail, especially if the teeth are not crowned.

Contrary to your claim that it causes the bone to rot, there's plenty evidence that it allows bone that was being destroyed to grow back around the root(s) of treated teeth, meaning it encourages new bone formation.

So I should take your word for it, without evidence
You are such a clown.

Go to the IG page, that Dentist you are trying to discredit has many posts on the subject, and she has references to studies, including one stat that says the success rate after 8 years is about 56%. She has made it her job to do the proving, so I do not need to, that's why I sent you her link. Especially as she is a Dentist, so more qualified and helps people rectify damages from root canal.

Sewasaunt:
Now, I told myself I would no longer advice Nigerians again because we are peculiar and no dey hear word but I'll break my rule this one time.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Go for regular dental check ups, don't wait until the whole tooth is bad and it starts affecting other teeth or causes swelling and pain before getting it treated.

We buy skincare products, I can't count how many pages on Ig sell them. Even physical stores.

We take care of our hair, our nails, we invest in our ward robe because we want to look good.

New restaurants are springing up in every corner of the country.

We fix our phones once they have slight faults, computer village is always bustling, many of us use phones worth hundreds of thousands of naira.


Yet we draw the line when it gets to our health and look for the cheap way out.

So many good looking men and women with poor oral hygiene, unsightly calculus on their teeth and stains, terrible mouth odour and missing teeth.

We wait until wounds get out of hand before remembering that hospitals exist.

I saw a woman with late stage breast cancer, I asked why she didn't come earlier (she had a breast swelling for many years) she said it wasn't paining her. So she left the lumps to grow bigger, now she has metastases all over her body. Her kids were practically threatening emergency Doctors to save her and refused referral to another centre as there was no bedspace in that centre.

So many relatives that will bring their relatives to the hospital when they are near death (from diseases and conditions that could have been successfully managed in the early stages), then start threatening fire and brimstone and cursing health personnel for their perceived 'lackadaisical attitude'. Someone you were giving herbs at home for years o, it is now a stranger from nowhere that should love and help save your relative more than you.

Some will use all sort of supplements for years and when the pain is out of hand, they come to the hospital and start fomenting trouble.

We are not serious, I don't think we will ever be serious.

Your brother has a hole, he probably has serious pain, you are here on Nairaland listening to people telling you to use garlic and salt.

Continue pls, thumbs up to everyone. Continue.

I see you are a medical Doctor, that's cute. You talk like my sister does.
But the reality is that without a functional mandatory health insurance system, peeps are psychologically traumatised of what will be discovered in hospital. You never can tell. The diminished purchasing power is not helping matters too.

Just make sure you find a competent dentist, people lose their lives from tooth problems

GerogeI:
I see you are a medical Doctor, that's cute. You talk like my sister does.
But the reality is that without a functional mandatory health insurance system, peeps are psychologically traumatised of what will be discovered in hospital. You never can tell. The diminished purchasing power is not helping matters too.

Leave am make he dey yarn apkata, maybe na paper dem go come spend for hospital. The reason most Nigerians shy away from hospitals is nothing but the bills

GEJDHERO:
Was the procedure painful?

Not at all. Your gums will be given anesthetics before removal of the tooth. You might only feel slight pain after the procedure and pain killers will tackle that one easily

olancho:
Get a sensodyne tooth paste called Repair and protect and thank me later. It is foreign and very expensive and can be gotten from a good supermarket, or if you have someone in USA the person can help you get it there. Once you start using it the teeth will heal.

Doesn't work in all cases. i can testify to that

Mixture of cannabis and little rub will cure that

Lutherblaq:
Can a tooth with a large hole be cured without extraction?

Asking for my kid bro

If that's the wisdom tooth, most people just remove them with no impact. It's the hardest teeth to clean because of position. Outside of that, looks like it may need a root canal. Not sure how much it would cost in Naij, but it is the expensive option. Dental work is generally expensive. You should tell ur brother he should get used to taking care of his teeth. I Floss, Rinse with Mouthwash, Brush 2x a day (waterpik instead of flossing in the morning) and still get cleanings 2x a year. My dentist suggested to brush last and just spit out, but not rinse after brushing. Allows the toothpaste to work in your mouth.