same problem its Composite filling dull ache... and super hot/old senstive :@

ouch... dull constant ache.

super hot/cold sensitive.

Help

It's 3 in the morning for crying out loud and I had to get up becouse pain woke me up. That'll be Day 4.

I had two white fillings on the left 2 weeks ago and they are still bit sensitive when I chew something solid or drink cold. But the third white filling on right bottom I got 3 days ago is killing me. It takes it's time but it's doing it's job and slowly killing. It's the fifth tooth so it's small, filling was pretty deep and cavity was bad but it didin't bothered me that much before I went to get it fixed (what's up with that??)

I needed three shots to get numbed and two of them were at the very back so I couldn't feel my neck nor ear for half a day afterwards. But it was fine until the anaesthetic wore off.
Now my right bottom gum is sore - the teething kind of pain, dull and costant and burning sensation - and I can feel it in my ear on times.

I need Ibuprofen every 7 hours 2 paracetamols a day and bonjella (that's for kids) rubbed in my gum every 3 hours to keep me up and about. Still pain wakes me up every bloody night around 2-3 a.m. Tonight I ended up finding your river of tears.

I'm not going back to that dentist unless I absolutely have to. Does it look like a gums infection and can I go to a regular doctor for an antybiotic or do I need to go back to that hell with dental chairs in it? How long can you go on painkillers? That's a short run...

Good luck everyone! Waiting for the answers.

I'll add my dilemma to this list. I too have had old fillings replaced. I actually had "some" slight aching in one of the old fillings, and thought I would go ahead and get this done and over with. My long term dentist of 30 years was one I could trust, so I thought nothing of it. He told me there was a lot of decay in the upper tooth, and it was close to a never. This was done 1 month ago. I had the old silver filling replaced in three areas. Thank goodness only one is giving me problems, but one is enough! I woke up last night in pain, took 800 mg ibuprofen and went back to sleep. No problems again until 24 hours later. I can't chew on that side and it is very sensitive to cold and heat. I have never been the same since, and seems I have a continuous headache, I never get headaches! I had the dental work done because I was going off my insurance...only to find out I was 5 days too late! UGH! Will wait this out and see if it goes away. My dentist is actually on vacation now, so will have to wait it out for 6 days unless I go somewhere else and pay! Has anyone found any hope waiting this out? I am healthy and hoping it will just go away once the nerve root decides his time is up!

I am happy to say that after 6 full days on painkillers the shooting pain in my gums, ear and neck is gone. It dimnished on the 5th day and I put Ibuprofen aside for the night to check how am I doing and I slept all right.

All three of my fillings are still sensitive to cold (hot not so much) and I put Bonjella stuff on my gums from time to time after eating something harder because I still get that funny kind of itchy sensation around the fillings from time to time.

What could have helped me was: vitamin B Complex, Sensodyne toothpaste even 3-4 times a day - does a great soothing job, and homeopathic Belladonna for the ear pain.

Now let's see if the sensivity goes away and if the nightmare is not coming back...

Best wishes from Scotland. Matilde

I also went in to the dentist for a cleaning, and I was told I needed silver fillings replaced. I accepted the dentist's advice to use the white composite tooth colored fillings. They cost more, but the dentist convinced me they were better. Once completed, the pain in these new fillings continued for 2 months. I returned had x-rays taken and adjusted my bite, and doc said I was fine. But I wasn't.. then the doc said I needed a crown instead. I thought wow,.. I had 4 fillings replaced,and one by one they would be turned into crowns?!?! I lost trust in that dentist. I went to a new dentist who suggested it may be the fillings. The new doc changed them back to the silver..and I felt back to normal in 1 day. Problem solved...so think about it b4 u change what's been there for awhile to something new.

I had a silver filling replaced with a white filling on my lower left molar a month ago. At same time, the dentist put a crown on the adjacent molar, which had a large silver filling. When I returned 2 weeks later, to have the right back molar filling replaced, I reported a continued pain (not horrible though at that time) on the left side, which was done first. A few days after the dentist did the right re-fill, that side was fine (and still is), but the left side just got worse and worse. A week ago, I called the dentist back due to horrible pain, radiating to my ear, down my neck and up towards my left eye. My entire left side of face was sore nand I had intermittent headaches on left side. Went to doctor to rule out ear or sinus infection --- Started penicillin, just in case. No change. Took vicodin but too wacked out. Have now been on 800 mg of ibuprofen 2x/day and that seems to keep the constant pain at bay, although I haven't been able to chew on the left side and have both hot and cold sensitivitiy. Dentist is great in that she is always available for consult. I report in daily. Sounds like this is a common problem with replacing fillings but very strange that my right side (filled more recently) is just fine. The left side is another story. I don't think it's the dentist as it's only on the left --- a side that has given me problems in the past. Hoping for relief soon as I don't want to live life on motrin.

Me too!
I had two fillings done on 4 Feb and had extreme sensitivity to heat, cold and pressure. Returned to dentist about ten days later and he partially lowered areas where the fillings were done. Now the pain is limited to tooth #30. I still can't even breathe in the cold air let alone have cold or hot food or drink. I'm going back to have the inside of the problem tooth lowered and then I'll wait to see if things get back to normal. However, I certainly won't let him do any of the other work he wants to do until I find out more about these resin materials dentists are using. Thanks to all the folks who made these posts-maybe I will benefit from thier experiences!

I went to a new dentist. She has a nice looking modern office & staff. I left my other dentist of 3 years because his methods were old along with all his equipment. Anyway, back to the new modern dentist. My cleaning went well, no new cavities were discovered, but she recommended that I have an old silver filling replaced in an upper molar due to underlying decay. Funny how this "decay" suddenly appears after multiple visits to different dentists over the years. Well, since the filling was 30 years old, I agreed to the procedure and possibility of decay. Once she started drilling, she suddenly discovered "additional decay" in a neighboring tooth and filled that too. While she was drilling away and running up my tab there, she mentioned that I may need a "root canal" with a deep drilling like this. Imagine. Then she added that people these days will do just about anything for money. I'm not laughing. It has been 2 weeks and I still have chronic, dull pain which subsides with Advil. Needless to say, I will not return to her practice, something just didn't sit right with me. This is my first bad experience with a dentist. I'm now in my 40's.

WOW. I think I just diagnosed my problem. I was told one of my 20 year old fillings in a large molar was "leaking" and needed to be replaced before decay got in there. Sounds reasonable. The dentist used a composite w/o explaining any of the potential problems. I had some pain a couple days afterward in my jaw due to the injections, no big deal. THEN, I started having pain in the tooth which radiated to my ear and my jaw. I thought I had an ear infection and the pain was radiating to my tooth, but after reading all the problems people have had with composite fillings, I now believe the new filling is the culprit of my mostly constant ear pain. I've been taking Advil which mostly helps, but I still have a lot of heat/cold sensitivity. So it's been about a week with the new pain. I find the pain someone excruciating at times. Other times it's non-existent. It's very strange and I'm quite annoyed none of this was explained to me before they used the composite.

Surprisingly enough, the procedure itself was effortless and didn't hurt at all. The dentist said she didn't have to drill very much because there was no evidence of new decay.

I wonder how long this might go on!

I just got my teeth filled yesterday and I have two different kinds of pain. The right feels like I was punched in the jaw, bruised and such... I think that it might just be from the freezing and needle though because it hurt when he put it in. The other side however is a different story, it aches constantly within the muscles towards the back of my jaw and the pain is so excrusiating it aches all the way down my neck. This is the second time I have gone in, this time being for him to make the pain go away because of the original procedure. I am already deathly scared of dentists and this isnt helping.
I dont want to go back again but all the tylanol I think is getting a little hard on the stomach.

Ouchytooth says:

My filling replacement was 3 weeks ago. The pain is changing and getting worse for me. Now the tooth feels like someone wiggled it around. I can't chew on it at all it's so sore. I went to the dentist on Monday (now it's Thursday). They took an x-ray and examined it and said everything looked fine and it had been a routine simple procedure, they hadn't expected any complications. I have no idea if it's from the tooth drilling (which wasn't deep at all) or the injection because both places intermittently give me trouble. NOW it's the tooth. The pain just woke me up, I popped 4 more Advils (800mg) and now it's better. I've been taking Advil (ibuprofen) exclusively. I know it's not good on the stomach either. I always eat a bunch of food when I take it. And eating isn't fun now because my mouth hurts.

They said they could redo the filling, but that might not help and to just hang in there for a while longer. Sigh...I don't know if this is getting worse or better.

Hello,
I am in the same boat!

I had two filling on two teeth, one left and one right both bottom molars.

Neither one was hurting before the white fillings. The right side is ok but tooth number 18 on the left just hurts and is super sensitive to cold.

After a week it was still hurting so the dentist replaced the filling with a gray material that was supposed to be more gental to the tooth. Both times he had a hard time getting the tooth numb and the drill kept hitting the nerve, very painful.

He said the decay was NOT very deep and can not understand what is going on.

Asprin works ok and the vicoden takes all the pain away but i cant keep taking vicoden for to long.

Chris

Maybe it's SLIGHTLY better overall, but not much. I'm still popping 3 Advils on a regular basis and I can't chew on the composite filled tooth. I get SHARP SHOOTING pains when I do.

Some people recommend I get a second opinion. I'm wondering what to do because if it eventually gets better, I guess I can wait. But I won't pop Advils and eat soft food for much longer.

From what I've read and the pain I'm dealing with I would say that they need to take it off the market. Just offer the silver fillings, pulled or root canal. I ? what type of filling this was because it wasn't silver, I was told it would turn silver after a few years (fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me). Now I know that it was really a money issue (shasty move). Thanks for the post everyone very helpful to me!!!!

I`ve had two fillings done one week ago and the pain is very intense. No my dentist didn`t tell me what kind of filling she was using. And now that I have read all your complaints Im very disapointed in her for not letting me know how much pain I was maybe antisepating. I`ve had a lot of bad luck with Dentist and I know that we`re not perfect in anyway but do your job when it comes to giving us a choice in what you have for fillings cause I don`t care about looks I`m too busy with my kids, and if I would of had a choice I would of pick the less painfull one so I could function as a mother better. This is a big problem.

Another version of the same sad story. I had no pain or discomfort of any kind until I allowed my dentist to replace two silver fillings with white fillings. Seventy two hours after the work was done, I was eating my granola as usual when there began this terrible pain upon biting. Unfortunately the fillings were on opposite sides of my mouth, so chewing on either side is a problem. The next day I went & had the fillings ground down. This did not help, so I decided to go to a soft diet and let the teeth have a chance to heal. It has now been a week since the pain started, and ten days since the work was done, and they have gotten a bit better. But like others who have written here, I am regretting having the work done, have lost confidence in my dentist, and am considering moving my whole family to a different practice. When she took over the office, suddenly my whole family needed fillings! She also had recently remodeled the whole ofice, so one is skeptical about the motivation for treatment. I am normally a very trusting person, but a week of pain will change you. I agree with the "If it works, don't fix it" approach now. I remember seeing posters at the dentist's office that said "Don't wait til you're in pain!" Well, I say "Wait! "Cause you might be put in pain by the treatment!"

It's been almost a month for me now. The intense pain is mostly gone. But I still have the referred pain in my ear, jaw and head. I'm maintaining on a diet of 3 advils instead of 4, and chewing still hurts on the affected side unless it's very soft food. I sure hope this doesn't last forever. And I really hope I never need a filling replaced ever again. Because the one that was replaced wasn't even giving me trouble.

sounds like the stories on here are becoming all too familiar. 2 months ago I had an old amalgam filling replaced on #14 with a composite as the filling had deteriorated. This filling was fairly superficial. Since that time, I've experienced hot/cold sensitivity - intermittently, dull ache on and off and I cannot bite down on the tooth so chew on the other side. For the past week, I've experienced less hot/cold sensitivity and less dull aches. I did go back to the dentist 2 weeks after the filling was replaced for a bite adjustment. And, I might mention, I also had a maxillary sinus infection during this time, too, that required 2 rounds of antibiotics. Am going back to the dentist in 2 days and we'll see what he says.

Hi Ouchy tooth - sorry to hear that you are still suffering. Also this is my second attempt at posting this reply, so sorry if it is a rerun. Advil is great stuff, but I over-used it when I had migraines and ended up with esophogitis, which felt like a rock was in my stomach every time I ate. The treatment for that was Prilosec. Just something to keep in mind. Oddly, my dentist just called me to see how I was doing. She was very concerned to know that I was still having problems. She said problems with the white filling compound are rare, but acknowleged that if you are the one having a problem it doesn't matter how rare it is. I told her it is easy to find postings by people having problems with it online. SHe said she would make a note of it and next time we would use the silver fillings. I'm thinking "Next time...?" I can sympathise with how you feel - my teeth felt fine before I replaced those fllings, too. My plan is no more white fillings, never have two fillings done at once, and possibly change dentists.....