tooth pain

Hi Smilemomma. Do you remember this? Well, I started wondering again because I cannot get the sinus/tooth thing to go away. I either have a toothache or a headache almost always. Went to the local GP, but he gave me something like tylenol and that's it. He wanted to give me decongestants, but I'm nursing. Guess he just didn't want to do anti-biotics yet and he was a bit irritated because of the nursing limitations. Talked to the dentist here last week and she gave me a prescription to have a dental x-ray done. It's the panoramic view type, not the close-up kind that you bite the film. Since AF's here (TTC again), I had the x-ray done today. So I'm coming to you because I will not be able to go see the dentist until the end of next week. I have spent over two hours on the net looking at dental x-rays and have figured out a small few things. I know I have some serious calculus problems (it's been at least five years since a cleaning -- I brush a lot and well, but I guess not good enough). I don't see dark areas, but some of the time it's hard for me to tell when they are pointed out in pictures. I haven't found anything at all on what got me starting to look though. Once I had the x-rays, I thought that I would check out the tooth I'm worried about. It's root looks like someone tried erasing it. It's a blurred, white spot at the very base of the root instead of the roots that I see on the others (although the white stuff does go a little into the adjoining teeth). In the pictures I've seen showing hopeless teeth, the roots are blackened, not whitened. What does a white spot on a root mean? Thanks, Tiff