Dental Hell

I know I've really been slacking, Mikey and I have had a super busy week. SO yesterday was my dentist appt. Background, several months back I broke a very back tooth on the bottom right. Called the only dentist local for my ins. They got me in for a cleaning and to check out that tooth. They procede to tell me I have ELEVEN teeth that need work. Now, let me just throw out there the fact that NONE of my teeth bothered me in the slightest way, not even the broken one. Seriously not a single stitch of pain or sensitivity from ANY of them. However, I put my trust in her and tell her to fix them all. She does 3 on the top right. I am pleased with the work, have a little sensitivity to hot/cold in one of those. Next up are 3 on the top left and 1 on the bottom left. While there I ask about the sensitivity to which she tells me to use Sensodine Toothpaste and it will go away in a week or two, she then procedes with the four for previously mentioned. I leave. Now these teeth HURT. They ache, they are sensitive to hot/cold, and to pressure when biting. So I figure give it a bit like the others. My next apt comes and I miss it due to baby issues. Then I decide not to reschedule b/c of the pain and start looking for another dentist. Fixed teeth should not cause this much trouble...PERIOD! Well more baby stuff delays my search and here I am finally a few months later following up. Mom gets me an appt at the dental clinic on campus where she works. They don't do anything real serious there but I can at least get started and find out the "why" for the pain. I go last Thursday. She says all my composits look good, so she's not sure why I'm having so much pain and feels the most important thing to do is fix the broken - yeah the one I originally went in about that the other dentist didn't even work on! However I explain to her that I have to stop this pain in my upper right before we can even think about the broken tooth, since afterall it causes me no grief. SO yesterday I go back. The plan is to clean out the 3 composit fillings in the painful teeth and place in some medicine to "quiet them down" then refill them. Simple enough right? Yeah, would I be blogging about it if it were simple???? So there I am, my mouth all jacked open, a "rubber dam" across my face, numerous anesthetic injections, and she begins. She's cleaning the old fillings out, gets up, comes back cleans some more, gets up, comes back. She says "these fillings just keep going down down down. Then it happens, she hits a nerve. Now I about came out of the chair, but her reaction blew me away - she was so pissed by what she'd found that she actually threw her little dental mirror she was using. The last dentist had completely hollowed out my tooth and just laid a composit filling directly on my nerve. As the new dentist is explaining I start to cry. I am so fucking angry. All I can think is she's going to have to pull these teeth. We both calm down and she explains that she won't go any further on the other two, just put the med in ontop of the remaining filling and put the temp filling over that. Hopefully it will help for now. The 3rd tooth has to have a root canal, which she is not set up to do, but she has no choice at this point but to start it. I am finally done, and my mom comes over to check on me b/c we have to leave in order to pick the boys up in time. I am crying, shaking, and in so much pain my lips are quivering like it's 30 below in that office. Now, let me tell those of you who don't know, I have a massive pain tolerance. If I hurt bad enough to shed tears, then it's BAD. And shaking, I have never done due to pain before. The next step is to get me referred over to the other dentist in Rome that they work with and have the one root canal finished and the other two will probably have to have them as well. I honestly feel like I've been hit across the face with a baseball bat. And I am soooooooo fucking angry. Teeth that didn't bother me now have to have root canals????? WTF? All b/c some dentist decided to completely destroy my tooth. I will be going to get my records and original xrays Tuesday. If I find out that there was no cavity or a small cavity that didn't require the tooth to be so "hollowed" or that in fact it was so bad I truly did need a root canal, and that this dentist should have made other decisions for my treatment - GOD HELP HER! And to top it all off, the fuckin' broken tooth is still untreated, b/c now the immediate concern is the 3 teeth that the old dentist destroyed.