Dentist

[Fiat500lr]

have recently diagnosed with an under active thyroid. I have been to the dentist twice , had to have an anesthetic. Had to take paracetamol after for the pain . I have been really unwell and has taken me several days to get back to some normality. Does anyone else have the same effect and how do you deal with it?

[Charlie-Farley]

Hi Fiat

I definitely think there have been issues for me as a result of hypothyroidism. I’m adequately medicated now but I had slightly loose teeth at one stage and three crowns have given me problems on being fitted. My early crowns settled after a day but the later ones 😱

one took 3 months

one I ended up having pulled

This last one I’m still persevering with a year later as no one can see the problem and I’m just starting to feel there may be - all be it slight - an improvement.

B12 deficiency can play havoc with teeth amongst other things. Perhaps check your vitamin and mineral levels? Nutritional deficiencies are common in us hypos. Most of us take single supplements, rather than multivitamins that often are poor quality forms and taken all together can over supplements some and be inadequate for others.

[Rapunzel in reply to Charlie-Farley]

Chicken and egg situation, innit tho?

Welcome to the forum Fiat. I was diagnosed at about the same time as a 'smile makeover' was being sorted. Reason for expense, similar to a house deposit: my teeth had always been troublesome and I was fed up with the (ever so slightly different white who cares if no-one else can tell... I can) piecemeal restorations I'd had done, over 50 years. I gave up smoking (packs of 20...) and busted my facelift fund to get it done. Although it was all good in the end, the year or so whilst I was having extractions/fittings/temporaries/abutment healing / other dental malarkey had me gunning down the M2 to my dental practice once every couple of weeks, worried about niggling pain or movement or intensely sore gums...

So 15 years later, 500 sheets toothbrush, waterpic, regular checkups...two that were 'just' crowned then have fallen out - thankfully not from a visible part of my mouth. So from this, I perceive that as I'm shortly 65, I have to make up my mind on expensive implants or ever-increasing cronedom. At £3K plus a tooth. Poor teeth are so ageing, tho, aren't they? I'm retiring soon and wondering if always wearing a facemask might be more cost-effective. 😷

It's a hypo thang, I'm afraid. Depending on how you're looking at the forum, somewhere you'll find 'Related Posts' and if you have a look through, you may find some that help, even if it's just to give you a sense of communion Like most of the rest of the signs and symptoms, you don't deal with it. You find ways of coping with it.

[Charlie-Farley]

If you haven’t landed there already there is loads of useful info on Thyroid UK website and information about private blood tests and background information on thyroid conditions (really good). The forum is great to discuss but always bear in mind that our perspective comes from experience not medical training. That’s not to say lived experience is inferior- I’ll say no more 😉.

I would encourage you to read others posts and questions and discussions. I learnt so much this way. 🤗

[Dandelions]

I have got weak teeth and I'm convinced it's related to my thyroid issues. But the dentist thinks I'm crazy to think that.

My children have also got something (forgot what it's called) that means they have weak enamel, which is something that formed before they were born. So I believe this may be related to my thyroid too.

I don't have any issues with anaesthesia though, but I haven't often needed it.

[FallingInReverse]

Coincidentally, just yesterday I was talking about a family friend whose child was diagnosed hypo when they were young - she’s only seven now and I don’t know the who story. But I said - how did you know? And they said - because all her teeth fell out.

Since she only had her baby teeth, they gave her fake teeth … and waited for her grown up/permanent teeth to come in.

So it does look like teeth issues also related to thyroid!?

[mandy-white]

I always have the least anasetic possible when going to the dentist. I once had to have 3 injections. The dentist said don't worry about the red circle on your cheek it is only the adrenalin. It made me dizzy and unwell for about 3 days.

[FallingInReverse]

Also, didn’t think of it until Dandelions mentioned it, but when it comes to novacaine … it actually does not work on me.

Not sure if same for you, or anyone else reading this, but if so, there is a version that came out about 20 years ago called Septacaine, that does work when novacaine did t for me.

I would say it wasn’t working, so their solution: give me more!

My whole head would be numb, but my teeth were not. Miserable.

[TiggerMe in reply to FallingInReverse]

Snap!

[TiggerMe]

I've opted not to have the injections for years now as they hurt so much and didn't work until after I'd left the Dentists! It's much less of a drama to go without and very rarely painful, it's just the awful screaming of the tools that makes my ears hurt 😬

[FallingInReverse in reply to TiggerMe]

Septacaine is short acting and for reasons I don’t know, made me numb. Sounds like you do get numb. Me, the pain and heat from the drill was like a hot poker to the depths of my being. Many many tears shed at the dentist for me.

Now I get nitrous every time for the stress of it is too much.. I’m always waiting, amid the screaming of the tools, for them to hit some nerve and for that hot poker feeling to pierce through. Like - a total nightmare.