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For quite a while now I have experienced off and on a sharp, throbbing pain in my upper left gum area (sometimes quite bad). It happens after I have chewed particularly hard on this one tooth (4th one back from the front) or if my sinuses are swollen.

At first I thought it was a toothache so I asked my dentist. He looked at my xrays and said it was not my tooth, but that my sinsues were unusually close to the nerve. Since then, I had to get root canal surgery on that particular tooth, leading me to think maybe he was wrong, and it was in fact my tooth.

However, I still get the pain even after the root canal. I'm not sure I understood what my dentist meant concerning the nerve -if they took the nerve out of my tooth in the root canal, why would I still have pain? ...Visitor from PA

Answer:
You could have what is known as cracked tooth syndrome, which means there might be a fissure or crack inside of your tooth which can cause a lot of pain even after root canal.

Sometimes putting a post and crown on the tooth eliminates the pain. If this does not work, the tooth has to be extracted.

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