Of the two teeth that had undergone fillings and cracked in the process (hence causing pressure pain and cold sensitivity for most part), both teeth now have crowns (one fitted yesterday). The cold sensitivity has gone. Although haven't started eating hard food yet on the new crown (due to gum swelling on that side), the second crown that is still hurting when chewing on hard food was believed to be by the dentist as

- either....The crown was too high on that side and needs to be adjusted
- or.....All the pounding/pressure has caused a nerve to become sensitive and a root canal would be required.


Travelling soon. Hope the root canal is not required :)
just an update, if this information helps someone. I can totally relate to the pain and discomfort people go through from fillings procedures gone bad.

I am not a gambling man, but in this instance I would put money on the need for a root canal treatment.

I do not (and will never) undestand why any dentist would place a crown on a problematic tooth.

The best approach for a cracked tooth is to perform a root canal if required, place a metal band around the tooth for interim strength and put a semi permanent fiilling in place.

This approach allows easy access to the tooth should further treatment be required and allows a period of time to pass to see whether or not the tooth is going to settle down prior to placing a croiwn.

If your going to be travelling soon I would most definitely make sure everything is in order before you leave home.

Mike

What exactly is a root canal?

Is it the nerve become sensitive that is cause of pain or is it due to infection?

Since I have a pain on both crowns (one more than the other), I would like to know how exactly the root canal actually helps? What exactly is it?

I had a root canal on one side where the crown was inserted. When the crown had a temporary filling right after the root canal, the pain subsided within a few days. Then a few days later, I went back in to the dentist to replace the temporary filling with permanent and the pain re-appeared, and got worse with passing days.

Everytime I have something warm or hot, even if I am not using the tooth to eat (since direct contact with food does hurts - soft or hard), the pain starts on that tooth. All it takes is something warm in my mouth and the pain starts. Xrays did not show anything unfortunately.



I know for sure that after my teeth problems are resolved, I will probably never visit a dentist. I can't believe my visit to the dentist for one wisdom tooth removal could lead to so much suffering because he wanted to remove the top two wisdoms as well, perform cleaning and filling on three other teeth in addition to the bottom wisdom tooth that was really my problem, two of the fillings he cracked my teeth, then crowned them, and now both still hurt, one of them terribly badly right after the root canal, that I have trouble eating. I should have never gone to the dentist. I could have easily coped with the bent wisdom teeth.



The dentist tells me that if repeating root canal doesn't work, I have no choice but to remove my tooth since the crack may have run down further. Is that my only alternative? It is a molar so losing such a large tooth will be a great great loss. I feel like I am suffering for my dentists mistakes.

Hello all,

i pray we all get relief from this pain we're experiencing very soon. I had that laser filling done with white composite fillings back in 1999. The fillings did not last long, i'm not even sure when they fell out. I'm thinking it was because of the procedure, because the cavities were the size of a pin hole and the laser just like melts down the tooth. So of course when the fillings fell out my teeth were open for new problems. I got cavities again bigger ones this time and I just recently was able to get them filled on december 20, 2006 (bottom right molars #'s 30 & 31). I went to another dentists. I was not asked if I wanted silver amalgam fillings or white composite resin fillings, but to my surprise when he was done and I looked in the mirror and they were white. I myself would have chosen the silver fillings because I have a silver filling on my bottom left molar # 19 and I have no problems. But 3 weeks later i'm still having pain. My two molars are very sensitive to the touch especially # 31, they both hurt when I eat crunchy foods, hard foods, need I say more. I've been trying to deal with it. I called today january 12,2007 and they said I could just walk in no appointment needed. I dont know what he's going to do, but I know it's not because of the bite thing, my bite is fine. I paid my hard earned money for two fillings and I refuse to spend another dime for more pain. I checked out this website that said most dentists are not trained to do those white fillings, you have to have special training to do them or the procedure will not be done right.

I travel to Eastern Europe to get my teeth done. Some doctors charge 100 pounds in England for a visit or a check up which I hate. NHS is rather slow, so I fly to dentalpoland clinic twice a year. Planes and hotels are booked by the company and they only thing I do care about is getting to the surgery to be treated by professionals.