Dr. LeSueur, Dr. Dodaro, and the team at Drs of Smiles understand that many people have anxiety about the dentist. They assume most procedures cause serious pain. This isn’t even remotely true. The patient feels nothing when he or she is getting decay removed from a tooth and a cavity placed. Modern local anesthetics are awesome. You will feel a slight pinprick when we inject the anesthesia, but that’s it.
If you want to know real pain, however, leave your tooth decay untreated. Eventually, the decay will enter the inner part of the tooth, the pulp. There it will come into contact with the nerve fibers in the tooth. Now there will be serious, some would say excruciating, pain when eating and chewing, and you will have extreme sensitivity to hot, cold, and sweet foods and drinks. The end of this path is a root canal to save the tooth or the need to extract the tooth if decay becomes too prevalent.