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Is it painful to put a pin in a tooth
Dentists often have to answer questions related to pain sensations. For example: “Is it painful to place a post in a tooth?”, “Is it painful to screw in a dental post?” and “Is it painful to put a post in a tooth?”. The general answer to these and similar questions is no. Modern dentistry is focused on ensuring that the patient does not experience pain even during complex procedures or surgical interventions. However, questions about whether it is painful to place a post may be related to confusion when the patient does not fully understand the difference between posts and implants. Let us clarify.
A dental post is a rod that is placed into one or several root canals.
Posts can be of different types:
- anchor and fiberglass posts are placed into one canal in a single dental visit;
- posts for multi-rooted teeth or post-and-core restorations are fabricated in a laboratory, and their placement requires several dental visits.
What all types of posts have in common is that the structure is placed into the root canals of the patient’s own teeth. The tooth is depulped, and endodontic treatment is performed (nerve removal and canal filling). Therefore, the only answer to the question “Is it painful to insert a post into a tooth?” is no.
Posts serve as additional supports during tooth restoration. If the crown part is severely damaged, the dentist may suggest placing a post-and-core restoration that will be integrated into several root canals, with an artificial crown placed on top.
Implants, unlike posts, are structures that replace a lost tooth root. Therefore, when a patient asks whether it is painful to screw a post into bone, they most likely mean an implant. Since it truly integrates into the patient’s bone, however, even in this case the procedure remains painless thanks to good anesthesia.
Again, the short and simple answer to this question is no. To dispel all doubts of patients, let us explain how each type of post is integrated into the root of the patient’s own tooth:
- An anchor post has recesses or elements that resemble an anchor. This post is screwed into the root canal.
- A post-and-core restoration consists of several supports on which the restoration (head) is held. The supports are not screwed in but inserted into the canals (roots) of the tooth and cemented.
- A fiberglass post is also cemented in the tooth canal; its main difference is that it is mostly used only on front teeth.
What all types of posts have in common is that they can only be placed after quality endodontic treatment – nerve removal and canal filling. Therefore, placing a post in a tooth is not painful: the nerve has been removed and can no longer provoke pain sensations.
The need to remove a post from a tooth may be due to incorrect post placement, the need to replace one type of post with another, or the need for tooth extraction.
After the post is placed in the tooth canal, either the crown part is built up or an artificial crown is installed. In both cases, there will be no pain.
The only difference is that building up the crown part with restorative material will not provide the same level of aesthetics as using a ceramic or metal-ceramic crown.
Artificial crowns are indistinguishable from the patient’s own teeth and are invisible in the mouth, regardless of whether they are placed on a post (a structure in the root of one’s own tooth) or on an implant (an artificial tooth root).
In summary, it is practically impossible to experience pain when having a post placed in a tooth. The placement and subsequent manipulations with the post are not accompanied by pain sensations.
Definitely not. A post is placed only in the canal (root) of a tooth; it is not screwed, twisted, or otherwise integrated into the mucosa (gums). Therefore, a post cannot provoke any pain in the mucosa, neither during placement nor after.
The process of tooth extraction is not affected in any way by the presence or absence of a post. Modern dentistry allows tooth extraction with minimal pain – only at the stage of anesthesia administration.
In modern dentistry, there is practically no room for pain. All procedures, including those related to posts, are performed painlessly. This also applies to implant placement, which is done using good anesthetics. Discomfort after the procedure is possible, but it passes within 1–2 days.
Igor Osadchiy
Surgeon
MD, physician with the highest skill accreditation level, member of EACMS (European Association of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgeons), member of the Association of Implantologists of Ukraine. Alma mater: O.O. Bogomolets National Medical University. Year of graduation: 1984. Experience: Work experience: 38 years. For 13 years (1985-1998), taught dental surgery and maxillofacial surgery…
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