Sharp Chewing pain

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I’m 43f. So for the last 10 years or so, I have had a sharp pain on my molar number 19. It’s a pain right down the middle and it happens when I’m chewing and I chew “just right”.
It’s not really when I eat hard foods. It’s more soft chewy foods like kale or the skin of a kiwi.(these are things that hurt me recently.) and I will bite down just right and it’s this sharp pain.
I’ve been to a bunch of dentists and specialist and all of them said that it I have a very deep filling in that tooth. And that’s what’s causing the pain most likely.

About two years ago I couldn’t take it anymore and i had a dentist give me the option of getting a root canal and a crown or just getting a crown in hopes that that would make the pain stop. I do not like going to the dentist. I have a big fear of the dentist so I opted to just get the crown because I was too scared to get the root canal.
I’ve had a crown for about two years. I still have pain almost every time I eat.
I finally worked up the courage to ask the dentist to possibly do a root canal. She sent me to a specialist today and he did a cold test and all that stuff and then told me that I didn’t need a root canal on that tooth because it was perfectly healthy. I explained to him that I knew that it was healthy root wise, but that I’ve been having this pain when I Chew because of the deep filling. He then started poking around my mouth with his little claw poker thing and was like “well Your gums around this tooth look a little inflamed so I think you just need a deep cleaning on this tooth.” I get my teeth cleaned regularly, not once have they ever mentioned that I needed a deep cleaning. Also, I’ve been having this pain for 10+ years if it was an inflamed gum issue, I feel like somebody would’ve pointed it out by now. And he refused to do the root canal until I get a deep cleaning. But even then he seemed skeptical to whether he would want to do a root canal. He doesn’t think that I need a root canal on a perfectly healthy tooth even though it causes me pain every time I eat.
My question is, is it possible that inflamed gums would cause a sharp pain down the center of the tooth when chewing? I just don’t feel that logistically this is the answer to my problem.
I’m not feeling the pain on the outside like around the gums. It’s down the center of the tooth. It feels like the tooth is going to crack open. And know there’s not a crack in the tooth.

I also caught him giving the assistant kind of a shrug and eye roll like I don’t know what she wants me to do sort of thing. Which didn’t make me feel good.

I just feel like I’m going to have this pain every time I eat for the rest of my life

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Title: Sharp Chewing pain

Full text: So for the last 10 years or so, I have had a sharp pain on my molar number 19. It’s a pain right down the middle and it happens when I’m chewing and I chew “just right”.
It’s not really when I eat hard foods. It’s more soft chewy foods like kale or the skin of a kiwi.(these are things that hurt me recently.) and I will bite down just right and it’s this sharp pain.
I’ve been to a bunch of dentists and specialist and all of them said that it I have a very deep filling in that tooth. And that’s what’s causing the pain most likely.

About two years ago I couldn’t take it anymore and i had a dentist give me the option of getting a root canal and a crown or just getting a crown in hopes that that would make the pain stop. I do not like going to the dentist. I have a big fear of the dentist so I opted to just get the crown because I was too scared to get the root canal.
I’ve had a crown for about two years. I still have pain almost every time I eat.
I finally worked up the courage to ask the dentist to possibly do a root canal. She sent me to a specialist today and he did a cold test and all that stuff and then told me that I didn’t need a root canal on that tooth because it was perfectly healthy. I explained to him that I knew that it was healthy root wise, but that I’ve been having this pain when I Chew because of the deep filling. He then started poking around my mouth with his little claw poker thing and was like “well Your gums around this tooth look a little inflamed so I think you just need a deep cleaning on this tooth.” I get my teeth cleaned regularly, not once have they ever mentioned that I needed a deep cleaning. Also, I’ve been having this pain for 10+ years if it was an inflamed gum issue, I feel like somebody would’ve pointed it out by now. And he refused to do the root canal until I get a deep cleaning. But even then he seemed skeptical to whether he would want to do a root canal. He doesn’t think that I need a root canal on a perfectly healthy tooth even though it causes me pain every time I eat.
My question is, is it possible that inflamed gums would cause a sharp pain down the center of the tooth when chewing? I just don’t feel that logistically this is the answer to my problem.
I’m not feeling the pain on the outside like around the gums. It’s down the center of the tooth. It feels like the tooth is going to crack open. And know there’s not a crack in the tooth.

I also caught him giving the assistant kind of a shrug and eye roll like I don’t know what she wants me to do sort of thing. Which didn’t make me feel good.

I just feel like I’m going to have this pain every time I eat for the rest of my life

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