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How long were you off work?
Was there a lot of swelling?
When could you comfortably starting eating solid again?
Did they tell you you couldn't stick your tongue past your teeth for a month?

Thanks again, you all are the best!

There is nothing left to do but take drugs and live each day step by step. I could not get a surgeon to do a nerve graft on me and they scared me enough about the possiblity of the pain getting worse so I stopped looking. My nerve was "fixated" by the formaldehyde and will never regrow or repair itself.

Sargenti is bad stuff. Make sure it isn't used on you....ever.

www.sargentipaste.org

Fixative explanation...as I understand it from my surgeon. If you drop acid on your skin, your skin will coagulate (spelling??) and build a barrier to keep the acid from continuing to penetrate thru it. Paraformadehyde (powder) or formaldehyde are fixatives. If you put a drop of them on your skin, they are designed to continue to penetrate and "fixate" until the (para)formaldehyde is no longer active. I have read from the Sargenti supporters themselves that Sargenti continues to "disinfect" for 7-10 days...therefore every day that went by in the beginning is another day of more destruction. On the 8th day, the numbness in my chin turned into burning pain (which I foolishly thought that maybe the nerve was getting better). It was a drastic change which I never understood until I read about the 7-10 days. It has never changed since. Basically, part of my nerve was embolmed.

This was my first root canal.