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10 days of pain after filling

  • 28-07-2011 6:55pm
    #1
    trowel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭


    Had a filling done 10 days ago - having a lot of pain since, esp after hot drink/food which lingers. Not like a sensitivity which I've had before.
    Apparently there MIGHT be a crack in tooth (dentist saw something and asked if I wanted to go straight to endodentist) which could lead to nerve.
    X rays were done, but nothing was said about them.
    Q. Should xray not show crack?
    Q. Is this pain normal after filling?
    Q. What will an endodentist do?


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  • #2
    Oral Surgeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,240 ✭✭✭Oral Surgeon


    trowel wrote: »
    Had a filling done 10 days ago - having a lot of pain since, esp after hot drink/food which lingers. Not like a sensitivity which I've had before.
    Apparently there MIGHT be a crack in tooth (dentist saw something and asked if I wanted to go straight to endodentist) which could lead to nerve.
    X rays were done, but nothing was said about them.
    Q. Should xray not show crack?
    Q. Is this pain normal after filling?
    Q. What will an endodentist do?


    Sorry to hear op.

    This could be 2 different problems;
    1. a cracked tooth
    2. the decay and resultant cavity preparation was deep to the nerve


    For no 1. it depends on the crack, in some cases a root canal treatment and a crown can save the tooth. some cracked teeth are not savable...

    For no. 2 the pulp in the tooth may be too inflamed for a simple filling to work, in this case, a root canal and crown is the option again...

    The other treatment option if you don't want the time and expense of saving the tooth is an extraction but that leaves a gap....

    Best to get it seen to soon,
    All the best,
    OS


  • #3
    trowel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭trowel


    Oral Surgeon wrote: »
    Sorry to hear op.

    This could be 2 different problems;
    1. a cracked tooth
    2. the decay and resultant cavity preparation was deep to the nerve


    For no 1. it depends on the crack, in some cases a root canal treatment and a crown can save the tooth. some cracked teeth are not savable...

    For no. 2 the pulp in the tooth may be too inflamed for a simple filling to work, in this case, a root canal and crown is the option again...

    The other treatment option if you don't want the time and expense of saving the tooth is an extraction but that leaves a gap....

    Best to get it seen to soon,
    All the best,
    OS

    Thanks OS and tbh I had a very simolar problem on the other side several years ago. Weeks of root canal work followed by a crown, only for the crown to crack about a year later and the tooth ended up being extracted.

    If there is a crack would this not show up on an xray?

    I would like to keep the tooth, but do not want the pain/time/expense if crack is deep to nerve.


  • #4
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,940 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    a crack may not show up on the xray if it's parallel to the film. think of looking at 2 windows, one in front of the other. without knowing anything, you just see straight through them, not knowing that they're there. put one window perpendicular to the other, then you'll see the line it forms.

    a lot of cracks on a tooth are parallel to the film and just don't show up on x-rays. they're determined more by different tests.


  • #5
    Oral Surgeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,240 ✭✭✭Oral Surgeon


    ballsymchugh wrote: »
    a crack may not show up on the xray if it's parallel to the film. think of looking at 2 windows, one in front of the other. without knowing anything, you just see straight through them, not knowing that they're there. put one window perpendicular to the other, then you'll see the line it forms.

    a lot of cracks on a tooth are parallel to the film and just don't show up on x-rays. they're determined more by different tests.


    True,
    Like a crack in your car windscreen, at the correct angle you can see it but sometimes it is not obvious... The xray has to be at the exact correct angle to see a crack and since there are infinate combinations of where the xray beam is and where the film in the mouth is in relation to the tooth... it is very difficult to see all cracks...


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