Sensitive teeth after filling
In some cases, patients still experience toothache after filling their teeth. Drilling out the caries and filling the tooth should ensure that the pain stops. People experience toothache for many reasons, but the transmission of pain always works the same way. A nerve is irritated and passes the pain signal on to the brain. Therefore, it may well be that the teeth react sensitively despite caries being removed. The reason is that the nerve takes time to calm down. Here you can read about the other reasons behind sensitive teeth after a tooth filling, how other readers deal with them and how the problem can be solved.
At 46% after new tooth filling the feeling of more sensitive teeth
Why do teeth react sensitively after tooth filling??
When a tooth needs to be filled, the dentist takes the drill in hand and drills out deeply.
- In some cases, the tooth decay is so deep that the dentist drills to the nerve – he has no other choice. If the nerve is injured, it reacts accordingly. As soon as the anesthetic wears off, the patient feels this: The teeth are particularly sensitive, it pinches and pinches.
- There may be an inflammation lurking beneath the drilled tooth that the dentist has overlooked. The inflammation leads to teeth that are sensitive to pain.
- If the filling presses on inflammation, this is also unpleasantly noticeable.
What similar problems occur among other readers?
Other readers report that their teeth are particularly sensitive to pressure.
- This pressure can arise, for example, from chewing soft foods.
- Some readers only hurt their teeth if they chewed hard nuts, gummy bears or chewing gum.
- If the complete caries was not removed during the drilling, the pain also persists for a long time and does not go away on its own.
- Some readers feel the problems only with a ceramic filling, but not with an amalgam filling.
Together with the sensitive teeth, some people also experience headaches and neck pain, and the area around the tooth feels hot.
31% are of the opinion that the teeth are more sensitive after a tooth neck filling
Solution to the problem with dental fillings
There are various approaches to treating sensitive teeth yourself after filling your teeth. These include:
- Wait a week and see if the pain subsides. If after a week, regardless of the treatment method, you have not yet left, go to the dentist.
- For acute pain, take ibuprofen.
- Perform careful oral hygiene and check whether there is inflammation in the immediate vicinity of the tooth being treated.
- Avoid chewing gum, sugary drinks and sweets in general.
- Do not chew tough / hard foods such as hard meat or crispbread and nuts for the first week.
- Give your teeth some rest.
What do other readers say about tooth fillings and sensitivity ?
Other readers have found that wounds in the gums resulted from filling the teeth. They suspect that bacteria could enter through these wounds. These triggered inflammation and caused the teeth to become sensitive. Many report that the pain subsided within a week or two without taking any special measures.
Summary
➀ It takes a while for the nerves to get used to the filling and to be sensitive at first.
➁ If the tooth decay is deep in the tooth, the dentist drills to the nerve.
➂ Another reason for pain in fillings is undetected inflammation underneath the restored tooth.
➃ Readers report pain during pressure such as chewing or permanent pain if the dentist did not remove all of the caries.
➄ With ibuprofen and careful oral hygiene, the pain will go away on its own.
➅ Gum wounds created during the restoration give bacteria room and are predestined for inflammation.
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