im really hoping someone can give me some advice! I had a silver filling replaced with a white filling around 6 weeks ago, it was a very deep filling and was a bit sensitive for a while after only when drinking hot and cold drinks or food. Settled down ok and then a few days ago I started getting intermittent shooting pains up my right side of jaw where the tooth is and all up to my right head. Would come on like a contraction, get really intense and then ease off and I would be fine. This happened all throughout two days on and off but didn’t affect my sleep.
went dentist and he said my gum had receded a bit and it was exposing the nerve. So he covered it with more filling. It was fine after this until the day after in the evening, now the tooth with the two fillings is extremely sensitive / painful when biting on it or brushing it.
I even got woke up at 4am this morning through shooting pain. It’s not constant, I can control it with painkillers, but it’s pretty awful when it happens.
is this because of the filling he put over the exposed never on the receding gum and do you think it will calm down?