Hi I had a rootcanal  in the morning I woke up with a lot of pain and than I felt numbness on my lower right side lip chin and teeth went to hospital because if severe pain I was givin injection and narcotic pain killers second day went to dentist he took the filling out pain got better still numb oral surgeon took a ct he said showed nothing went back to dentist he put filling he pain again he took it out and cleared the whole tooth was referred to a nerve specialist what can I do whats going on 2 months passed by still numb
Hi, thanks for your query. There are several issues that can cause your lip, chin, or jaw to be numb after a root canal procedure. The first is that, in the process of filling the space normally taken up by your tooth pulp, the dentist has used too much filling material. Doing this sometimes results in the material penetrating to the main sensory nerve and chemically burning it. It is very common for overfill in rear teeth to cause lip and chin numbness. Once infection is present from perforation, however, medications may work, but if the problem gets bad enough, extraction might become necessary for you, just as it is with infection from under filling. Visit endodontist for this. Hope this is helpful.