It’s Vital…with No Fillings…but it Hurts!
Radiographs can be so deceiving! This radiograph of the first quadrant looks so calm, so unassuming… everything looks normal. What you didn’t see was the patient attached to this radiograph – having extreme, radiating pain. When everything looks fine on the radiograph, and we have a quadrant full of unrestored or minimally restored teeth, my spidey sense tells me to pick up a probe, and also a transilluminating device…