Tooth pain after filling when chewing reddit

I got a filling about 2 weeks ago on a bottom right side tooth toward the back. I went in 4 days later and let my dentist know that I was very suddenly feeling a lot of cold sensitivity - in fact I thought the filling had fallen out. I had been able to feel an overhang piece from it with my tongue, and then suddenly it disappeared and cold was very painful as well as chewing on anything hard.

My dentist inspected and said the filling was still there. She blew air on it and I felt no pain. She blew air on teeth nearby and around the gums - no pain. She said it wasn't something she could do anything about, was probably just sensitivity and to switch to a sensitivity toothpaste like sensodyne and to go through a whole tube.

Well it's been about two weeks since then and cold is still unbearable. Chewing anything hard or crunchy hurts, especially if I hit the wrong spot, and it feels like that tooth. I'm also feeling lingering pain after I eat, for hours. To the point that I sometimes take Ibuprofen.

Is this an issue I need to bring up again, or is this normal sensitivity and I just need to stick with the toothpaste per her original recommendation?

Thank you in advance for telling me if I'm just being whiny, dentists of Reddit!

(Probably not relevant, but I just had a bridge put in on the other side of my mouth, for details on that see my post history)

I had two molars in the upper left filled a little more than three weeks ago. The good news is that while they were sensitive to cold drinks/food/air at first, that's almost completely gone now.

The bad news is today I decided to "test" the teeth by chewing on that side several times throughout the day (I had been chewing on the right side almost exclusively) and they were sore. The part that worries me is there was some spontaneous pain at night before bed. I've had four root canals before, so I know spontaneous pain is bad. But it was preceded by quite a bit of crunching on food earlier in the night.

Normal pulpitis? Or is the nerve too pissed off?

Thanks.

F 26, nonsmoking. I have mitral valve Prolapse (repaired in 2018) and Von Willebrand Disease (bleeding disorder). My bottom two premolars directly next to my molars are baby teeth (I don't have adult teeth for those), and one has filling material built on top of it to fill in the gap as it barely clears the gum line. I have been told by my dentist that i have some bone loss where this premolar is.

Reference pictures: https://imgur.com/a/BtjgqAv

I had my first ever filling in March on one of my bottom molars. I'm not sure if it's number 19 or 30 (it's marked in yellow on the pictures linked above). I had had a cavity that had gone unnoticed on my x-rays, and before the filling that tooth was sensitive to sweet foods and Listerine. The best I can describe it is that the cavity was located where my premolar butted up against the affected molar, and it was extremely hard to see on the x-ray partially due to the filling material on the premolar right next to it. Prior to filling the tooth (since he wasn't 100% sure it was a cavity), my dentist thought I may be having issues with exposed dentin (i think) and he tried applying desenitizing solution on it twice, which didn't help.

After the filling in March, i had sensitivity/pain in the filled tooth when I chewed food on that side. I couldn't chew anything harder than a piece of untoasted bread on that tooth without a dull pain in the middle of the molar. We tried the desensitizing solution three times to see if there was just remnant pain from the filling, but my dentist refilled it about a week and a half ago. He said he put a cushion in (?) and also put some desensitizing solution in the base of the filling.

Now, a week and a half later, I'm still experiencing pain when I chew some things. Like, I can chew a piece of baked chicken but not a piece of steak. My dentist is really stumped as to why I'm having pain since my x-rays are clear and the original filling was apparently perfect. When he filled the tooth the second time, he mentioned that the next step would be a crown since the only thing he can think of is that maybe I have a small crack in the tooth.

I really don't want a crown or, worst case, a root canal but I'm not sure if I should call my dentist again and talk about next steps or if there's something else you all can think of that may be causing my chewing pain. I didn't have any pain like this before the first filling and since these are my first fillings I wasn't sure what to expect. Any suggestions?

So I (29, F) have had 3 fillings in my life. The first when I was 16 was a metal filling (excuse my laymen’s term here and probably for the rest of the post). I have had no problems with it whatsoever.

In January 2018 I had another filling completed by a new dentist. This is, what I think is called, a composite filling. It’s white, not metal. It’s in a molar on my top left side. I had no pain before the filling or during the filling. After the filling I noticed sharp pain (no sensitivity to temperature) when I would bite on something hard with that tooth. So about two weeks later I went back to the dentist who said I might have sprained tooth syndrome. She adjusted the filling and advised me not to chew on that side of my mouth for a week. I followed the directions, but the pain remained. I went back for 2 additional adjustments (during which I bite/chew on a piece of paper and the dentist files the filling). The pain remains. The dentist told me that the tooth probably needs a cap for the pain to go away. The pain only happens when I’m chewing something hard (nachos, seeds, etc). So I decided I could just chew hard things on the right side of my mouth and save my money.

So, April of 2019, I get another composite filling by the same dentist. This one in a molar on the bottom left side of my mouth. And the EXACT same thing has happened. No pain before the filling. No pain during the filling. That night after the filling I bite down on something hard, and sharp, shooting pain! This time the pain was on the bottom and slightly more forward in my mouth differing in location from the pain from the previous filling. I go back, they adjust the filling, tell me not to chew on that side for a week, I follow the directions, but the pain remains.

So now, I’m continuing avoiding chewing hard foods on the left side of my mouth for forever it seems. I’m afraid at one point I’m going to need a filling on the right side.

Does anyone know why this keeps happening? I figured, worst case scenario, maybe she messed up my filling. I was willing to forgive and forget, but twice?! This dentist has great reviews and I know other people that go there who have never had a problem. Is it my teeth? Do I need to find a new dentist? Will the pain go away without a cap?

Other maybe relevant background info is that I had/have TMJ. At one point I could only open my jaw maybe half an inch without pain. I had a plastic mouth guard made by a specialist that I wore for 6 months about 9 years ago, and I haven’t had any pain or problems since then.

Thanks for reading this long post. Any advice is appreciated!

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