Prophylaxis
Bite pain after root canal treatment on the treated tooth is quite possible. Root canal treatment and root filling cause irritation at the root tip and the inflamed tissue. This causes swelling.
The tooth is minimally elevated, which means that when the tooth bites open, it first touches the opposing teeth and is pressed into the still inflamed tissue. The tooth has a permanent pre-contact due to the minimal protrusion from the biting position of the teeth and is thus overstressed. This causes a biting pain that only gradually decreases, parallel to the regression of the inflammation below the root tip.
The duration of the bite pain should be over after one to two months. If the pain is persistent or even gets worse, a revision, i.e. a repetition of the therapy, may be necessary to remove any remaining bacteria below the root tip and allow the inflammation below the root tip to heal completely. The root filling is removed and a new root filling is only inserted when the tooth is free of complaints.
A few days after a successful root canal treatment, the patient should be free of pain. In rare cases, pain in the jaw can occur even after an apparently complete root canal treatment. In the majority of patients, this has a harmless cause (irritation or irritation).
Nevertheless, if pain in the jaw persists for a longer period of time, a dentist should be consulted again, even though root canal treatment has already been carried out. This is particularly important, as the inflammatory processes may have migrated from the pulp via the tip of the root into the jawbone. As a result, abscesses or inflammatory bone diseases can develop in the jaw region.
Most jaw pains are like biting pains after a root canal treatment at the beginning but are normal and not worrying. Root canal treatment is always an irritation to a certain extent, which can cause discomfort after the local anesthesia has worn off. Keeping the mouth open for root canal treatment for a long time and wide for overexertion of the muscles, which can result in jaw pain.
This condition is virtually the sore muscles of the chewing muscles, which are overstretched by keeping the mouth open for a long time. It can also mean that you cannot open your mouth properly for a few days – then you have a lockjaw. However, the jaw complaints should have completely receded within one to two weeks and become less and less day by day. If the pain remains the same or even gets worse, the dentist must be consulted to find out the cause and, if necessary, treat it. This may also be of interest to you: Pain in the temporomandibular joint
