With a title like "Tooth Pain" i'm sure everyone is thinking in their heads about dead air space in a tooth from a cavity or filling.
I was taking a diving class out this past weekend on Saturday, while the students were unloading their cars I went out to about thirty feet and set an anchor for my float ball with no problems whatsoever. I came back in did my breifing with my class, and we swam back out on to the float ball on the surface, after we did our pre descent checks, I started to descend with my class, gently of course. At about 15 feet I had slight pain in my jaw, and by about 17 the pain was debilitating, it felt like someone had one of my top molars on my right side in a vice grip slowly crushing it. I came back up with the class, and from then on could not descend below two feet without the incredible pain, from person experience, thats the worst pain i've experienced.
Needless to say the class had to be canceled, but the tooth pain stayed with me for the rest of the day, when I got back home I made both a dentist appointment, expecting to find out about a cavity or a lost filling that was leaving dead air space in a tooth, there was none.
So the next place I headed was to an Ear Nose and Throat, who diagnosed me with a severe sinus infection that I had felt none of the common symptoms of, he didnt tell me what it was until he stuck the fiber optic thing up my nose
that was alot of fun. I was aware that there were sinus cavities throught the head and face, but never that there were any in that area. He said its a form of bariotrama that scuba divers and fight pilots are among the only to experience, the latter in high g turns according to him, and that the pain was normally extremely severe and experienced in teeth or eyes.
Just thought I would post this info, as I had always associated tooth pain experienced with diving as to dead air spaces in teeth although I had never experienced it, and while I knew that there were some odd parts of the sinuses that could experience bariotrama (sp?) I had no idea that they could be directly related to pain in a tooth, thought others might find this interesting.
I was taking a diving class out this past weekend on Saturday, while the students were unloading their cars I went out to about thirty feet and set an anchor for my float ball with no problems whatsoever. I came back in did my breifing with my class, and we swam back out on to the float ball on the surface, after we did our pre descent checks, I started to descend with my class, gently of course. At about 15 feet I had slight pain in my jaw, and by about 17 the pain was debilitating, it felt like someone had one of my top molars on my right side in a vice grip slowly crushing it. I came back up with the class, and from then on could not descend below two feet without the incredible pain, from person experience, thats the worst pain i've experienced.
Needless to say the class had to be canceled, but the tooth pain stayed with me for the rest of the day, when I got back home I made both a dentist appointment, expecting to find out about a cavity or a lost filling that was leaving dead air space in a tooth, there was none.
So the next place I headed was to an Ear Nose and Throat, who diagnosed me with a severe sinus infection that I had felt none of the common symptoms of, he didnt tell me what it was until he stuck the fiber optic thing up my nose
that was alot of fun. I was aware that there were sinus cavities throught the head and face, but never that there were any in that area. He said its a form of bariotrama that scuba divers and fight pilots are among the only to experience, the latter in high g turns according to him, and that the pain was normally extremely severe and experienced in teeth or eyes.Just thought I would post this info, as I had always associated tooth pain experienced with diving as to dead air spaces in teeth although I had never experienced it, and while I knew that there were some odd parts of the sinuses that could experience bariotrama (sp?) I had no idea that they could be directly related to pain in a tooth, thought others might find this interesting.
