Dental filling is a restorative dentistry treatment which provides dental solution for tooth decay, tooth fractures or damaged teeth surfaces. It is composed of either porcelain, composite or silver amalgam for better chewing or biting of an individual.
Types of teeth pain
- Pain while biting – This is experienced every time a person bites into something. The pain is not restricted to very cold or very hot foods. Apparently, the dental filling may be interfering with your bite thus resulting to pain while biting.
- Pain while your teeth touch – This type of pain is called a galvanized shock. It is experienced whenever your teeth touch especially if you have tooth with different type of metal fillings. Apparently, the slight collision between these two different metal fillings creates an electric current in your mouth thus resulting to galvanized shock.
- Referred Pain – This type of pain may be mistakenly attributed to dental filling but in truth it is caused by tooth cavity or decay in other teeth close to the treated tooth.
Causes of Teeth Pain
Teeth Allergy
Allergic reactions to fillings are one of causes of teeth pain. Although this happens on very rare occasions, dishonesty towards your dentist may cause you more pain and additional expense. So if you are knowledgeable of any allergies to specific types of food or the like, it is always best to inform your dentist about this so he or she can adjust the dental filling solutions he or she will place on your tooth.
Trauma
If the inner tissues of the damaged teeth are not that healthy, then treating it with tooth filling may only result to sudden shock on the tooth’s pulp. If the pain remains persistent then the dentist may have no other choice but to do a root canal treatment on it.
Misshapen Fillings
Excellent and well trained dentists are equipped to place tooth filling that are perfectly polished. This is carefully done so as not to cause any tooth interruption on your teeth and jaws normal functioning.
Adjacent teeth pain
At times, the pain is not experienced through the treated tooth but with the nearby teeth. Nerves of these nearby teeth may have unintentionally picked-up some of the broadcast signals from the filled tooth’s nerves.
Post Root Canal
Soft tissues which are located around the treated tooth have the possibility to be pushed towards the tooth’s end after it the application of root canal treatment. This is unavoidable because no perfect root canal procedure can eliminate the pain which dental patients may experience during and after the dental treatment.
Teeth Pain Relief and Treatment
You can drink certain medications to help reduce the toothache. You may also use several home remedies for tooth pain or try alternative pain reliever procedures like aromatherapy and acupressure. Nevertheless, it is still best to have the same dentist who performed the dental filling treatment on you evaluate your teeth’s condition.
I feel like I’m in pain while reading this one. lol! just kidding. Actually I like it that you explain each very well. Great post DR!
Extremely well explained article on types of pain related to filling.
Would you please care to explain a little bit more about allergic reactions causing dental pain!!!
Before using medicine, I’d recommend finding the source of the pain first. The pain can be helpful in diagnosing the problem, so masking it will hinder you in the process.
Well today I had an extensive filling-I was told it was near the pulp-a prior dentist had unceremoniously removed the amalgam in 2005-and slapped a temp filling while she went for the more expensive work..knocking off a perfectly good built up tooth so she could put a crown on it–(I had given her a check for $12,000-)and now it’s a little sore-I expect it will be fine 2moro-and I told that dentist who ruined my back tooth -that our marriage was over-She refunded $9,000.00 what does that tell you?
I have nothing but horror stories since 2005 in NY & NJ.
@armil@Dental Dallas, Haha, Armil I tried to explain the different ways that could cause the dental pain after a filling or restoration is done. The post is not to induce any pain 😉
@Dr. Shoeb, Hi Dr. Shoeb, Thanks for the appreciation. I will surely write a post about the same, explaining things that cause dental pain due the the various allergic reactions.
@GO, Any dentist first checks for the actual reason of the pain, rather than to combat it. The type of dental pain is pretty important as it helps in revealing the various types of conditions leading to it. But still, the diagnosis needs to be quick, or the patient who can’t bear the pain would go for a pain killer by himself and this would make the process of treatment planning more harder.
@msumdnj, Depends on the time gap. When the tooth has been half worked on, with a temporary filling it would be changing the things and the problems would increase. You need to be good at time when visiting the dentists, and if one dentist doesn’t take up things well, you should just start off with the other but not avoid or postpone the stuff.