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Pain 2 weeks + after cracked tooth & 'clove' dressing

  • 05-06-2015 10:28PM
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    Rogueish
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    Hi All,

    I just need to know if I'm being a wuss (very likely as I'm not the bravest dental patient)

    Anyway I was having a problem with a tooth about 4 weeks ago - pain on chewing without any hot/cold sensitivity. I was due a dental check up anyway and booked in with my dentist. Anyway a cracked tooth under an existing filling was diagnosed. The filling was removed and the dentist thought she had drilled out the crack and refilled it but either the tooth had become sensitised or sufficient of the crack had not been removed and I returned a week later to which the dentist removed the new filling and placed a 'clove' dressing in the tooth to desensitise it.

    I was told that the dressing would have to be left in for two weeks before retrying the filling and it was working fine the tooth sensitivity had decreased considerably. My regular dentist is away on holidays and I have an appointment with her next Tuesday almost 3 weeks after the dressing was put in.

    My problem is that in the last 24hours the tooth has become even more sensitised even though the dressing is still intact. Contact with toothpaste is *not* a comfortable feeling never mind hot/cold. Is this something I need to get seen immediately or could it be due to the fact that I have been ill this week with a virus (I caught the kids 'slapped cheek' virus) and I'll be grand 'til Tuesday.

    I'm not the best dental patient in that I am very nervous and the dentist has explained to me that one of the options if this doesn't work is a root treatment - not somewhere I want to go!! If I make an emergency appointment with the practice tomorrow - am I overreacting. My regular dentist won't be there so it will be one of her associates...

    ** I just need a little reassurance :o


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