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Question about ongoing dental/jaw pain following a deep filling

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bookmarket · 26/04/2022 12:48

I'm in the process of getting invisalign so had a check up at a new dentist which led to a filling needing to be replaced. I had that. It was quite deep but she said she did not hit the nerve. Straight afterwards I had impressions taken for the invisalign. 2 lots on top and 2 lots on the bottom.

The filled tooth was a bit sensitive for a few days but then it was okay - but a week later I had niggling pain in the gum above that tooth and also at the back of my jaw and up my face. It's continued intermittently for the past 2 weeks. The pain is mild and not always there but I can see that side of my face is ever so slightly swollen. The pain is not like tooth ache and more of the discomfort is in my jaw/face. I have read that a deep filling can cause mild discomfort for some weeks and not to worry so long as it is getting better, not worse - which mine seems to be as I haven't had to take pain killers for a few days. But my face is still swollen on that side and the jaw discomfort hasn't subsided.

Any ideas?

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ehb102 · 26/04/2022 15:37

Good be a badly set bite. I've a lot of dental work and that was the one that felt like an ongoing infection but wasn't. Tooth on one side was proud.

bookmarket · 26/04/2022 17:43

That's what I wondered. I had a lot of anaesthetic and numbness when the filling was done and it was very difficult to tell how my bite was when I was asked.

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bookmarket · 15/05/2022 14:54

I went back to the dentist and she redid the filling after I pointed out the swelling of one side of my face. However, I still have discomfort around the gum above that tooth, tooth sensitivity and swelling in my cheek. What do I do now?

It can only have been caused by the treatment - as I was not in any pain when I first went for the check-up. Could I have an abscess or something else? Surely the dentist would have seen signs of an abscess or something else. What do I do now? I can't bear the thought of this dentist tampering more with that tooth.

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bookmarket · 15/05/2022 21:31

BTW - the pain is on a scale of 1 or 2. I'm easily distracted from it. Often it's not there until I focus on it. But it's the fact my cheek remains slightly stolen that bothers me, and that I'm not pain-free after treatment 2 times, when I did not have any pain to begin with!

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bookmarket · 15/05/2022 21:33

Swollen, not stolen.

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Milanrae · 17/11/2023 11:52

Hi I’ve been having similar problems and get seem to get anywhere can I ask how are you now what happened was it sorted?
thank you

Sconehenge · 17/11/2023 11:55

@Milanrae not the OP but I had a similar issue after a filing and ended up needing a root canal!:(

Milanrae · 17/11/2023 12:08

:(
How did the root canal go.?

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