In the middle of the night I woke up with a pain in my ear, that slowly moved to feel like it was behind my back molar, and then it bounced back and forth a few times between tooth and ear before slowly fading away. Wtf was that, am I dying?
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ear pain can definitely be a sign of a tooth infection; if a nerve is inflamed due to abscess or other cause it can present exactly like this, I'd get some dental x-rays and/ or see an MD. tooth infections can be deadly by causing heart issues among other things.
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but i don't have any pain besides that? Googling tooth abscesses says they tend to be super painful
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could be early, it might not be an abscess, perhaps a cavity in a back molar that has reached a point where part of a nerve has become exposed. In any case they tend not to get SUPER painful until pretty advanced; a lot of tooth and gum disease can be mostly painless for years.
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