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  • 12-04-2013 5:51pm
    #1
    CarMe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 677 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    I recently had two fillings done. Molars in each side of my month. Last week I ended up in crippling pain and went to the dentist on Monday, was given an x-ray and sent home with prescription for pain killers. Two days later I went back because I just couldn't cope with the pain, I was then told that there was a gap left by the filling and my nerve had gotten infected. She told me if I didn't have root canal I'd lose the tooth so she started it there and then. It was a huge relief to be out of pain tho totally stressed about the cost.
    However, today I started getting the exact same pain where I have the filling in the other side of my mouth.
    I feel like balling, I can't afford another root canal and why did she leave these gaps in the first place?
    What can I do?


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  • #2
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    was english the dentist's first language as 'gaps' seems like a wrong choice of words, or maybeshe was just trying to break it into lay man's terms and it was explained/taken up wrong.

    a deep filling can irritate the nerve for a while after, and how it reacts can be unpredictable and in your case unfortunate. give the second one a couple more days to see if will settle, manage the pain with ibuprofen and paracetamol, but don't leave it if it doesn't


  • #3
    CarMe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 677 ✭✭✭CarMe


    Yeah she said that the other dentist (in the same practice) left a gap where food got in and stayed, infecting the nerves underneath.
    The other one feels ok today I think I may have been a bit paranoid because I've had to eat over that side for over a week.
    Thanks for your reply!


  • #4
    paulers06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 548 ✭✭✭paulers06


    I'd get a second opinion if I were you. Sounds a bit dodge. From my experience tooth pain usually indicates a problem!

    I got an emergency filling once and the dentist did an awful job and I ended up with an abscess which was agony. I went to another dentist the day after and he was appalled by the appalled by the work done. Cost me €800 to save the tooth.

    Not saying that this will happen to you but I'm always a bit wary!


  • #5
    digzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭digzy


    CarMe wrote: »
    Yeah she said that the other dentist (in the same practice) left a gap where food got in and stayed, infecting the nerves underneath.!

    Sounds like there's some team spirit in that practice!!


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