I had the same experience as you guys...I had done my silver fillings 11 years back and everything was fine, i was able to eat, drink with no issues at all. Life was great.
I went to this dentist for cleaning and we found out that one of the molar fillings on right side was coming out, so decided to replace with white resin one and scheduled for it. I am like baby when it comes to injections, so prepared myself mentally for those injections 3 or 4 of them, and worked on it. After it was done, he told me to drink liquids for the rest of day and start eating from tomorrow until the swelling from injections go away as i might bite my cheek by chance.
Life has been miserable after that day... i was never able to even bite from my right side, even after waiting for 2 days, so i call him on Monday, (He worked on it on friday), and leave him a message and i continue to leave message for him with her assistant; and everyday she said the doctor is busy with patient and will return your call. I told her that i am in pain and unable to eat at all, no concerns at all to it. Finally after leaving 10 messages that week, i decide to go on the next Monday without any appointment and luckily i was allowed to see the doctor.

He worked on it to re-adjust the tooth by adding from resin i guess on the tooth next to it so that when i am biting it does not put more pressure on it; He said they had to readjust it sometimes and it is quite normal to have such pain and sesitivity which would go away. He gave me Sensodyne toothpaste to relieve pain because of sensitivity and asked to wait for another week before eating from right side.
Here I am, after 2 weeks searching on the Internet with people facing similar issues; as the pain is still the same, i am unable to bite any food chips; nothing. Even when i am drinking water from right side, it is so sensitive to hot and cold. IT IS RIDICULOUS, i never expected that the dentist would not warn us or work like this to people's lives.
I am not sure it would help any bit going back to the dentist to re-adjust the filling. I am not sure what to do. I am so bogged down at my decision of going to the dentist on the first place. I just hope and pray to GOD that he sends some bacteria to fix it and CURSE all this dentists so that they earn nothing and die hungry.

Please please please, if someone is able to find a cure of this problem, please share on this forum or recommend a dentist who can fix it.

Today I got filling done on my teeth. It is still num. Will keep you posted.

dentist said to use warm salt water every couple of hours.

Oh my goodness! I am so thankful for this forum.

Add me to the long list of people that are having issues with the white fillings!!

I went to my dentist because of a terrible metallic taste in my mouth and some weird sensations in my tooth.

After getting two white fillings replaced, it was so sensitive in ways that I cannot even accurately describe - it was the WORST pain ever!

My dentist said NOTHING about it being extraordinarily sensitive after the procedure. She never warned me at all.

I thought for certain I had an infection and started antibiotics. I did get relief within 24 hours but it's still sensitive and feels like little lightning bolts on that side. Also lots of pressure and now it feels like my whole mouth has pain...

I had them filed down because the bite was off - the bite is so much better but it still hurts and chewing on that side is nearly impossible.

I am panicking thinking that this might last another few MONTHS!

If I had known about this side effect - I would have never gotten them put in.

Oh my.

Does anyone have any advice for me?

Wow I can't believe how many problems I am reading about here. The dentist claimed my old silver filling were loose and removed them and put these new composite in. It hurts bad. I cant eat hard solid food or even chew meat. No hot or cold. When I had my metal ones I was eating within an hour after having them put in w/o pain. He never explained that I would have this kind of pain. I also feel he lied about my filling being loose.

I had my filling replaced 5 days ago. I'm 17 and there was no problem with the original, it was only after an x-ray for my future braces that it became an issue. My dentist said it might hurt for a few days and to take a paracetamol if it's the case, but it's just been getting progressively worse - i have been in tears for the past five hours as it's intense agony all along my jaw, but i can't go to the dentist until next week, because they don't open on weekends, so here i am, left with agony for a replaced filling that wasn't a problem. ever. why???????? What's the point to try and fix what's not broken?
:'(

I didn't even read all these posts yet. I have the same problem.
One year ago I had a silver filling fall out and part of my tooth upper right back tooth. No problem, it never hurt or anything.
I go to the dentist and of course they find all kinds of other cavities that need to be filled.

NOW my upper left is sensitive to EVERYTHING. Even moving air through it. body temperature water, not to mention pressure, sugar, cold, hot. I can touch a spot on the tooth that sets off the pain, yet all the dentist wants to do is adjust the bite pattern. It's been 6 weeks.

Heres the BS part of it all. 11 years ago I went to this dentist and he said I had all kinds of cavities, he said I was grinding my teeth and needed night guards or something. I went dentist shopping.
One said my mouth was disgusting, one said for the amount of time I went without seeing a dentist is surprising that I only have two cavities. I probably went to 5 dentists and only one said I was grinding my teeth. In the end I had two cavities filled and it's been good for 11 years.

One other thing, the dentist I went to 6 weeks ago tried selling me those night guard things again for $450, I didn't get them. They need to get their act together because I asked their hygentist in the same office if it looked like I grind my teeth and she said no!

What a scam they got going on there.

3 weeks ago i had 3 white fillings done all on the left side. Two on top and one on the bottom all in the back. This was my first time ever having a cavity so I asked my friends what to expect. A week after my fillings my bottom molar was hurting, sensitive to hot and cold so I went back and they refilled it. Once I got home and the novacaine wore off i was in the worst pain of my life! My whole left side of my face throbbed with pain. I called for pain meds and all they wanted to give me was ibuprofen so i took about 800mg every 4 hours still having pain.Two days later I go back and his assistant paints floride on the tooth. I am still in pain but now it's not on the surface its coming from under the tooth. I wait the weekend and go back and he replaces the filling with a temperary filling telling me it has pain meds in it and prescibes me Tylenol 3 says this should calm things down and if it doesn't then I might need a root canal! Well I have had the temp filling in for 5 days now the pain is not as bad as it was but still brings me to tears. It doesn't last all day but comes and goes and still can't eat on that side. Should I have the root canal done or pull the tooth? which one will cure the pain cause i don't care about looks its in the back and you can't see it when i smile. The dentist doesn't seem to know whats wrong or take any blame for it. I've never had mouth pain what should I do.

A root canal will cost about $1200 and pulling it I think around $250...This will be your decision...Both will eventually cure the pain...It sounds to me like the tooth is definitely bad..Good luck...

Caroline

Hello. I am another victim of the white fillings. I had some hairline cracks in my teeth where I also had silver fillings. I would get an occasional small pain in one of the teeth, and could feel the cracks with my tongue, so when my husband got affordable dental insurance, I made appointments for all of us. Long story short, my fillings were done in mid-June, here it is mid-August, and I have so much pain that I have to take Ibuprofen at least 2 times a day (as many of you). I wish I had never had this done, and how do we get the word out to people BEFORE they have this done?

Know how you all feel I had two fillings on thursday and this is saturday and i'm still in pain. Everyone tells me they've had no pain and i felt like a freak. Hopefully this pain will subside

I had a white filling to right uppper incisor in 1996. Afterwards I had burning in that tooth and hot and cold searing up and down that tooth. I insisted eventually on having a root canal on that tooth and here I am with electric shock/burning right facial /jaw pains 13 Years later. Had Gamma Knife, alcohol/glycerol injection and they're now proposing brain surgery MVD! How did I go from white filling to brain surgery???????? Steve (London)

Thanks for this, I am in agony after a large filling in bottom right molar, it is affecting my life as I am often tired through not sleeping due to pain waking me up. Again returned to dentist and told to let it settle. It has been nearly a month and the thought of six months like this is depressing. Fillings never used to be like this.

I 2 have dull, constant ache. I haven't even chewed on that side...white filling can they take that out and put an old style filling in it's place?

Right along with everyone else--3 months of pain from composite. The pain is getting worse until now I can't sleep and am getting sick from the Tylenol. I've had the occlusion tended to 4 times now--it isn't that, it is the filling. It's got to come out but filled with what? Back to the amalgam? White done in thin layers and cured? White but done with self etching primer? There are as many answers as questions on the Web. Just know I can't take the pain much longer.

Guys, this is not good. =/

I was looking to find some hope for my mouthful of painful teeth, but am not seeing too much in your posts!

I am 33 years old. Had a spell of 3.5 years where I did not see a dentist. (Got married, moved a few times, etc.) Finally went to a new dentist, and he said I had 13 teeth with multiple cavities in each! I cried. I knew I had some cavities along the gumlines, but not near that many!

My only real sensitivity was that I couldn't eat gummy things like caramel that stick on your teeth like that. Not a huge deal... so, avoid caramel.

So, I went through 2 agonizing mornings of 3 hours in his chair getting each side drilled and filled. I chose composite fillings for a variety of reasons.

Well, aside from the nightmarish trauma of spending that much time experiencing the destruction and replacement of your "previous self" I am all but incapacitated in the mouth.

Sure, it might be a blessing in disguise to avoid food for the pain it causes, but you have to eat to live! My one side hurts to bite down on food. The whole mouth revolts against anything hot, anything cold, or even lukewarm water. =/

I am mostly chewing with my front teeth, although I can't imagine that is very healthy. They weren't designed for that full job...

Sigh, what should I do? My one side has been done 6 weeks and the other side 4 weeks. My husband wants to take me back to the dentist to fix it. He doesn't accept that this is just how it is. I just think it is horrible to have spent so many thousands (yes, we are self-pay) for such a mess.

Probably I will go back to the dentist, and give him one more chance. But, if he says that's just how it is and just get used to it, I am going to cry.

For anyone who knows, he put a pulp cap on 2 of the especially bad teeth for me. Should I have gotten that done on more?

Anybody know anyting about stafne bone defects? Pain associated with them, etc.?

I really sympathise for everyone out there who is in pain.
During my check up my dentist notice a small cavity and I went back the following week to have it filled. Since then (3 days now) I have been experiencing a dull ache and whenever I eat on that side (no matter what I eat) is a sharp, stabbing pain. The worst is when you forget and take a bit on that side and get the schock of a life time (it even makes me feel sick to my stomach).

What really upset me is that I was in absolutely NO pain at all before I went and was even shocked that I had a cavity to beging with.
My mom is worried that it could be an infection and told me to go back before it progresses to something more serious.
I really hope it is nothing.
Reading all these comments makes me want to brush and floss 10 times a day to never have to go through this again.
I hope that you all find the pain relief and solutions you are looking for! It is nice to know that we are not alone in this uncertainty but too bad that we are all feeling this way!

Becca

Oddly, there is some comfort in knowing I'm not alone in my tooth pain / gum pain / jaw pain. So here's my story... I'm 35 years old, hated going to the dentist since I was a kid due to many cavities and lots of pain. The last checkup I had was probably 4 or 5 years ago (2005, maybe). They said I needed a filling or two. I ignored them and decided to wait until I actually felt a problem with my teeth to go in. Since then, no problems at all (I have several amalgam fillings from years prior). Well, my sister's husband is a dentist and my wife was getting her teeth whitened by him one day and he said while we're waiting let's do your x-rays just for kicks. He found that I had 8 cavities, no joke (in 2008). I waited a year (still no issues) and thought okay I may as well get them filled. WORST DECISION EVER! This is not a stab at him (or dentists in general) because he really is a great guy and very honest with me, but I just feel I should have left well enough alone. If you don't have any pain, don't go the dentist... that's my new motto. He spent several hours over two different sessions filling my teeth with, yes, composite filling because I thought it would look nicer than amalgams. I was in pain as soon as the novocaine wore off. My teeth hurt. My gums hurt. My jaw hurt. And eventually the temples on either side of my head hurt. I couldn't eat chips or almonds or anything crunchy anymore. Granted, one Tylenol or Motrin pill takes the pain away quickly for me, but I must do that twice a day, every single day! Even after that I still can't eat hard/crunchy food. There's no way I want to live my life like that. He suggests root canals (multiple). I dread the thought of that. I'm going to give it a few months and hope it gets better. Soft foods until then I guess. And yes, I also have sensitivity to cold/hot liquid and food and even air... I try to breathe through my nose just to avoid the pain. Lastly, I'm taking antibiotics hoping it's just an infection that will go away... but my gut instinct tells me it will not help. My last resort will be a root canal, so we'll see how it goes until then. Sorry all, I feel your pain. Literally.

Paul Pannu

I have same issue of sensitive teeth after white filling but thankfully I only feel it when eating hot/cold stuff. What really bothers me dentist never discussed this possibility or did any cost benefit analysis. I had no problem before and just went for regular exam. From now on, I am planning to always get second opinion before allowing any work. I get the feeling dentist are too eager to do unnecessary work and make money.

People are so scared when it comes to dentists..Well ,come on, my dentalpoland clinic uses sedation, it does not hurt and then you do not suffer. I use it though I do not like being numb in my mouth but it goes away anyway. Every single time I use it as I get a bit freaky when I hear the sound in the office and sense this funny smell...
Good luck people!
Karen