Craze lines? And Galway city/Ennis dentist recommendations?

WesternNight

Hi there!

I've been lucky to have had few fillings in my 24 years, but in the last 5 weeks I've seen my dentist 3 times.

Initially, 5 weeks ago, I went for a routine check-up and ended up needing a filling in each of my upper right molars. The dentist didn't tell me anything about the filling until I asked him why he was numbing me. Strike one. Two weeks after those fillings, I started getting some sensitivity in one of the teeth he filled. It was sensitive to biting on hard or crunchy things. I went back and he filed it down. Seemed slightly better for a while, but just got more noticeable in following couple of weeks. I went back again this past Friday and he replaced it. It's been fine since, no sensitivity while biting down (fingers crossed it stays that way).

However. Yesterday I noticed a thin vertical line in the back of the filled tooth and in the same tooth on the opposite side (which has had nothing but a fissure seal). It doesn't hurt when I bite on it. Both teeth are very slightly sensitive to cold drinks (and when I say cold drinks I only really mean room temperature water). I'm not really sure what to think about it. I've never noticed it before. If it was only on the tooth he'd been working on I'd be thinking it was something he did, or that the tooth cracked because of the filling or something. But the fact that an almost identical line is on the same tooth on the opposite side of my mouth makes me think that maybe it's just a craze line.

At this stage I'm fast becoming a hypochondriac, and wouldn't be in the slightest bit surprised if the sensitivity was all in my head (pardon the pun). I mean, these lines could have been there for ages and I've only noticed them because in the last few weeks I've become super paranoid about my teeth and am constantly feeling them with my tongue etc.

Can anyone give me any idea how likely it is that two identical lines in two opposite teeth would be more than just craze lines?

I will probably have a dentist check them out just to be on the safe side, which leads me onto my next question:

Can anyone recommend a good dentist in Galway city? Or in Ennis?

I won't name and shame my own dentist, but I have little confidence in him now that I've had problems after having treatment from him twice. Admittadly this latest one probably has nothing to do with him, but I've never had problems with my teeth before and the first time I'd been to him was that time 5 weeks ago.

Any help at all would be appreciated.

marco_polo

Heard nothing but good things about Dr Tony Cotgreave in Ennis, I went to hime myself years ago as a young lad and I remember him being a nice bloke.

bomlane

marco_polo wrote: »

Heard nothing but good things about Dr Tony Cotgreave in Ennis, I went to hime myself years ago as a young lad and I remember him being a nice bloke.

now 66 and the best dentist I have come across is Dr. Oonagh O'Regan who used to be in O'Connell st. Ennis but now has moved to a bigger modern building in Roslevan. There is no dentist I would recommend higher that hr.