“My filling hurts with the slightest amount of pressure?”
I am a 26 year old male and I recently had a tooth filling. My filling hurts with the slightest amount of pressure?
14 Answers
It sounds like your filling might be over filled and your dentist need to lower or adjust your bite. It also could be that thefilling is deep and your nerve is getting irrtated from the filling. Either way you need to go back to your doctor, and infomed the issue.
You might want to have the bite checked.
Go back to the dentist to check bite and if the filling was deep, it can cause some discomfort.
Return to your dentist, it may need to be adjusted.
If the filling was large or deep or both, it may be irritated from the drilling. They should resolve in 2 to 8 weeks. If it does not resolve or gets worse, you may need a crown placed on this tooth. This will encase the tooth and take the biting pressure off of it.
Dr. Alan Bruce Steiner
Dentist | General Practice
3 possibilities:
-Silver/mercury filling has cracked the tooth
-Too deep of a nerve exposure
-Composite filling placed wet or or not layered
Solutions:
-Take out filling, put in a sedative, and redo when and if the tooth settles down
-Cracked tooth may need a crown
-Exposure or infected tooth needs to come out
Root canals are bad, may temporarily solve the pain. The problem will continue and expand over your life time. All root canals fail biologically even if they do stop the pain.
Alan B. Steiner, DMD
-Silver/mercury filling has cracked the tooth
-Too deep of a nerve exposure
-Composite filling placed wet or or not layered
Solutions:
-Take out filling, put in a sedative, and redo when and if the tooth settles down
-Cracked tooth may need a crown
-Exposure or infected tooth needs to come out
Root canals are bad, may temporarily solve the pain. The problem will continue and expand over your life time. All root canals fail biologically even if they do stop the pain.
Alan B. Steiner, DMD
Fillings can be sensitive after they are done, sometimes for a few weeks. We use desensitizer to avoid this. However, if it is pressure then the issue could also be that the filling is a touch high and needs to be adjusted. If it has been over two weeks then give your dentist a call or if it very bad then call them as well. Remember, fillings are cutting part of the body away and then repairing it so some discomfort can happen.
Jim Kline
Jim Kline
You need to return to the dentist who placed it for you.
Mitchel Friedman
Mitchel Friedman
Your bite may be slightly off after treatment. Generally, any adjustments to your new fillings are done while you are numb and laying back in the chair. This can throw off your bite slightly and you won't notice until your numbness is gone. You should go back to your dentist for a "bite check" to check it out. Pressure pain can be caused by even a slightly high filling.
This is not uncommon. Please visit your dentist again. Most likely he/she will just need to make some adjustments to your bite. Usually the sensitivity to pressure comes from one or more sites on the surface of the
filling hitting too high and causing some slight inflammation (similar to bruise) on the tooth making it very sensitive. It can be often associated with cold sensitivity as well. Worse case scenario you need to replace the
filling. In the meantime avoid hard or chewy foods. Hope you feel better soon!
filling hitting too high and causing some slight inflammation (similar to bruise) on the tooth making it very sensitive. It can be often associated with cold sensitivity as well. Worse case scenario you need to replace the
filling. In the meantime avoid hard or chewy foods. Hope you feel better soon!
Go back to your dentist. He will fix it.
Hearing that it's a new filling, it probably needs the biting surface adjusted. When you are numb it can be difficult to discern how the bite feels. When it is left "high" it puts too much pressure on your tooth when you close down and makes the nerves very sensitive to pressure. I would go back to your dentist and they can simply smooth it down. Ibuprofen will also help calm the tooth down.
Your bite sounds like it needs to adjusted. See your dentist asap.
Two things... first, the bite might be off or 'high" and needs to be adjusted to trim down, second, it might possibly be fractured, Go back to your dentist to have a proper evaluation and check-up.
