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Is my new filling compromised??

  • 21-06-2012 2:36pm
    #1
    sudzs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭


    I had a filled upper premolar and I bit on something hard and got a shooting pain down through the root. Not something I usually do but as the tooth was very sensitive and I was unable to chew with it I was forced to go to the dentist straight away!

    New dentist for me as I've just moved to a new area. Anyway, she removed the old filling, found some decay and while scraping away on side of the tooth cracked off. I think it was the damage I did to it in the first place. So she put in a pin and gave me a nice big composite filling.

    The next day I noticed that therre was a sharp ledge on the side of the tooth. I could click my finger nail over it. I was going back for another filling so rang them and mentioned the sharp ledge just so she'd know about it.

    The tooth is still a bit sensitive so she gave me an anaesthetic before smoothing off the sharp bit. But next thing I know she is asking the nurse for filling material. I was too zonked from the stress of the other filling to ask her at the time but I think she drilled off something and then filled it in....:confused:

    So I'm wondering if this might in some way compromise the fillling, will it make it weaker? It's quite a big filling, there's more filling than tooth there now! And it's super sensitive where she did this. If I feel it with a finger tip the nerve really hops but I'm hoping this will settle down as it was very sensitive when the first filling was done. and there's still another sharp ledge up near the top, it's as if she never finished off the filling by smoothing the edges.

    And actually the other fillling I had done yesterday is similar, it has a ledge that I can click my finger nail over. I'm in the UK and this was a private dentist but these fillings are more NHS standard, a bit rough arond the edges - literally!

    Sorry for the longwinded post, didn't mean to go on! :o

    But any opinions appreciated! :)


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  • #2
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    My opinion Sudz is your cursed.....dont worry until there is something to worry about, however the fillings should not be sharp.


  • #3
    sudzs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭sudzs


    Chaya Greasy Steamroller wrote: »
    My opinion Sudz is your cursed.....dont worry until there is something to worry about, however the fillings should not be sharp.

    lol! I am cursed alright! :rolleyes:

    Though in fairness, 9 months ago I found the most brilliant dentist who replaced a couple of fillings and did a brilliant job. Anyone in Mansfield need a recommendation for a brilliant dentist, I can certainly give one!!!

    Unfortunately that was just before I moved abroad for a while and now I need a new dentist.

    It was the junior dentist I saw there but you think it would be ok to ask to see the senior dentist in the practice to have a look at the fillings?? When I floss, the edges are shredding it. I'm really not happy with them.


  • #4
    sudzs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭sudzs


    Right! I asked the dentist what exactly she did to the filling and she said...
    The upper right premolar tooth felt sharp on the buccal side and required recontouring. The margin of the filling
    bevelled (where the filling joins the natural tooth) and white filling
    material placed in this position. The filling was then smoothed.


    Would this be a normal thing to happen, as in leave a patient go home with a filling that then needed this subsequent treatment?? :confused:

    Again, I'd appreciate any opinions! :)


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