I was listed to have it but decided against it. I'm one year on Wednesday - what a nightmare.....

My story is the bicuspid tooth that was root canalled and potentially injured by the overfilled, leaked gutta percha, sealant material (most are noted to be toxic). Another possibility is that the dentist didn't pull the nerve correctly. Perhaps compressing it.

And you know, the thing is - I knew I should have just pulled the tooth out. Now, either way, I am with the tooth out, healed fine, but inside,
I have about 2 mm x 1 mm mass - sealant, that passed the apex of the tooth. When they pulled the tooth, I looked at it, and I saw at the very tip of the root, some material extruding, I didn't think about it that much. But then I was back at that office in month or so for x-ray to determine what went wrong - I though that the offender - the bad root canal work, and the tooth was gone, and I should be healed and fine,.. NOT.

The denstist basically goes ahh ahh,, "it's not my job to remove the small puff of the paste that was used" it shouldn't cause you problems.

I don't know what's the cause.

I can only describe the pain that I am having. If I feel asleep, if I am able to really really relax, not move, and fall asleep, and then wake up, pain free, I usually stay in bed trying to be in semi-asleep state, not really sleeping, but not fully awake, as that seems to fool the whole circuit (perhaps it shuts down, this is also a case with trigeminal neuralgia). The sensations - pins and needles when the pain is very bad, on top of my side of the face, the side of the lip, tingling sort of sensation. And then just to the right side, lower jaw, prior to reaching molars you have bicuspids, my 2ndary bicuspid area, inside it feels like crushing, compressing, like I had a small canal that is now filled with glass shards.