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Originally Posted by doug67
had crown then continuous pain with pressure on tooth so few months later had root canal on same tooth . now one month after root canal still have pain with pressure on tooth and booth ears are clogged continuously since root canal. One medical doctor says I have head cold that lasts over a month? and another doctor says probably same nerve connected to tooth and ears has been damaged. Dentist says take "baby steps" anad hope it goes away. Has been 10 months pain with post crown/root canal on tooth and one month with plygged ears? What to do?
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The Trigeminal ("3-twins" or branches) Nerve covers the area under the eye, the upper jaw and the lower jaw, often also carrying the sense of touch & pain for the ear. The ganglion for that nerve is above & inside the last, upper molar. The dentist will often give a nerve block by shoving a needle thru the soft palate and injecting the ganglion with Novocain. ..
.This area is usually very sensitive and a painful stimulus at one point may invoke the sense of pain in all the involved areas.---not unusual to have ear or eye pain after such big dental work-- and, the opening to the Eustachian Tube is in the general area, so even a little irritation there can cause it to swell and cause a plugged ear.....I can't explain why both ears feel plugged. Maybe just a coincidence that some allergy or virus acted up just when you had the procedure? Once inflamed, the Eustachian Tube can take weeks to return to normal-- kinda like an eye stays black & blue for weeks after the fist that caused it is gone.
The continued symptoms could be caused by slowly healing damage to the nerve ganglion, or to continued pressure in the tooth from low grade infection/abscess, or maybe some mechanical problem with the new cap?
Pretty simple test: tap the involved tooth. If that causes pain, there's something wrong with the tooth(although no pain doesn't rule it out). Has the dentist repeated x-rays of the tooth to see about abscess?
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