skippy your root will still be there, root canal therapy is the removal of your nerve in your tooth, depending on what tooth it is, it can have upto 3 nerve chambers, if it is still hurting it could mean a bit of bacteria is still left, also RCT is only about 85% successful, although a very good means of keeping your tooth,it is done because the nerve is dying in the tooth and usually forms an abscess, i would go back and have it x-rayed to make sure there is no doramnt abscess there, in reality once the nerve has been removed the tooth is dead, so it could be another underlying problem such as your gums, only guessing here, or it could be a fracture in the root of the crown, causing pain after it has been played about with, with out seeing your x-ray i can only guess, there are options such as a small surgery procedure if there is an abscess if the RCT hasn't been successful, or the dentist could try RCT again, as the nerve chambers are filled after the removal of the nerve, as it is all done basically by guess work it could be the roots are not filled enough or filled too much, with out getting it x-rayed you won't know, all depending how honest your dentist is with you, in regards to keeping the tooth, as a lot of nhs dentists are now saying they won't do this work on the nhs as we are given points for the type of treatment you receive thanks to the good old government, to have a tooth extracted or RCT'd is the same value of points, so unfortunately they opt for the extraction as less time is spent on this, sorry if i am waffling, unfortunately too a visit too the dentist will cost you 15.90 just for the x-ray it all depends on how much it is hurting hope this helps, ask away if not.by the way is the pain started by hot or cold or when you eat or drink anything in particular, do you know if your crown has a post on it? do you grind, as one of the biggest causes of dental pain is through stress and this can be very painful, is the pain just to that one tooth.
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