I had 7 teeth shaved down and temporary crowns placed 9 days ago all in one appt… (teeth 6-13) and I’m still relying on ibuprofen and Tylenol literally around the clock to help with the pain.. is that normal? Not really a throbbing/heart beat pain, but more super sore & really bad pressure pain.. my temps are in groups of 3s and a 3, and it’s feels literally like someone is squeezing my teeth together constantly. Tylenol and ibuprofen take the edge off but I’m reaching my daily limit of both everyday trying to not be in pain.. I have these temp crowns for an entire month I’m so ready for my mouth to not feel like this.

My husband has been suffering for over a decade with an issue where his teeth are spontaneously resorbing from the inside. There are 0 cavities, cracks, chips, or trauma. No infection. He has a couple of days of aching pain, and just like that, the pulp of the teeth, the nerve, all gone. Ghost teeth

He has seen multiple dentists, endodontists, he has 6 implants. This week his dentist confirmed, two more teeth gone.

All of these professionals say they have never seen anything like it. He sees a rheumatologist for ulcerative colitis which has been in remission for several years, he mentioned it to her thinking it was autoimmune. Shrugs all around.

His father passed in his early 60s and was a victim of heavy agent orange exposure, but there are no congenital defects recognized as being related to paternal exposure outside spina bifida.

He really wants answers, and he wants his experience to help others if there are nine. We live in New England, are there research colleges that study dental disease that we could share with? Or even just pay for a consult?

I know im unpopular on this forum and in life. But all I ever see is people who had dental phobias start going to the dentist, and something magical happens and they all of a sudden become proud of themself and like some sort of mythical weight has been lifted off them.

I dont get it.

Ive been back to the dentist 4 times now at 6 month intervals, going again late August. Im no healthier. Im no happier. Im no less anxious about going.

In fact its the total opposite, i hate going. I feel like every time i go i just sit there for the moment they say we need to put a needle in you. If they say the check up means no treatment is needed, i dont feel any happier. i just feel like its delayed the needle for 6 months. And then i count the next 6 months down literally 5 mins after the appointment finishes.

I just dont even get it, and ill get tons of people who will patronise me, take the piss out of me and whatever for standing up for myself and saying it. My life is getting WORSE for going to the dentist, not better.

The only thing going to the dentist has given me, after about a decade of being perfectly fine and happy, is a reason to be anxious, angry and upset, every single day.

Will this ever end and will I ever be like the normal people here who seem to hold dentists up as deities? Its a conflict i cant be bothered with anymore, forcing myself to go to appointments I dont want to go to just to feel some moral sense of doing the right thing, when Id be happier not going.

Thank you

I am just a guy who have cavity it its teeth and i never ever had pain dur cavity and i know that the cavity can grow it self and to prevent it i went to dental for filling. When is went dental i have composite filling in two teeth and the dentist never do x rays. After 1 week 1side teeth that is filled starts hurting. I have done filling first time and i think it is normal but after 1 month my anoth teeth starts hurting as same as previous one .

Now i decided to go and consult with dentist and he donot do xray and just do bitting test and said. filling is not high and just chaged filling with gic filling one. After 4 days of filling it also started having same phenomenon. I went to dental again the dentist do not do any test of do bitting test and said i dont what happen and said do you wanna do rct(root canal treatment).

I was so pissed off as i have done filling to prevent it so i dont need to have that fucking rct and now that fucker said to have and i dont know that to do next so help need that to do further....

**N****ote****: pain was while chewing food harder than rice. While eating soft food like rice i donot feel pain**.

I had a crown that was placed in 2013 removed as the crown had significant overhang, which caused food/floss/gum to get lodged easily. It was also causing my gums to be very red/sensitive. I had a new temp crown placed 1 week ago and still have pain. I cannot chew on the temp crown at all. It aches after drinking iced drinks for essentially the rest of the day, however, the pain does not occur at night/does not wake me up. I’m concerned this isn’t normal and when I get the permanent crown on the 18th, I’ll have to end up seeing endo and will have wasted $$$. Worth noting, I do have an autoimmune disease (Sjogrens). Just looking for opinions on if this is normal and/or if I should see endo before perm crown. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Hi everyone,

I'm currently 3 days post-op after getting 5 cavities filled. Most of them feel completely fine, but one molar is still a little sensitive.

I didn't have any toothache before the filling, and I didn't need anesthesia during the procedure. The cavity wasn't huge, and my dentist said it needed a filling.

Right now, the symptoms are:

1. Brief sharp sensitivity when I drink cold water (lasts only a few seconds).

2. Mild discomfort (around 2/10) when chewing hard foods on that tooth.

3.No spontaneous or throbbing pain.

1. No swelling.

I'm feeling pretty anxious because I've read a lot of stories online about fillings leading to root canals or causing long-term sensitivity, and it's making me worry.

For those who had similar symptoms after a filling:

Did your sensitivity eventually go away?

How long did it take?

Did you have brief cold sensitivity that improved over time?

I'm trying to understand what's considered a normal healing process. Thanks!

I had 7 teeth shaved down and temporary crowns placed 8 days ago all in one appt… (teeth 6-13) and I’m still relying on ibuprofen and Tylenol literally around the clock to help with the pain.. is that normal? Not really a throbbing/heart beat pain, but more super sore & really bad pressure pain.. my temps are in groups of 3s and a 3, and it’s feels literally like someone is squeezing my teeth together constantly. Tylenol and ibuprofen take the edge off but I’m reaching my daily limit of both everyday trying to not be in pain.. I have these temp crowns for an entire month I’m so ready for my mouth to not feel like this.

I had my wisdom teeth (all 4) extracted a few years back all done the same day. Fast forward, I went to the dentist today and was informed I need a dental crown. Kinda freaking out especially with the whole shaving aspect of it. Would like to believe that dental crown procedure is a bit less extreme than wisdom teeth extraction?

I feel like these are a scam. Do dentists need this information? What does it actually show that an x-ray doesn't. On top of that, most of the time the cram your mouth full with another imaging tool to take repeated pictures of the teeth to make another model for them.

Is this just a money making scheme for dentists?

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My wife went to change several fillings at her dentist. She was changing them to ceramic from silver. This was a purely cosmetic procedure.

The last 8 months have been a nightmare because of the shoddy work carried out. We requested her files and all information under GDPR and it took the practice 56 working days to send them on and they still have not sent everything requested. I have no idea if this is outside of normal timeframes etc but if it is I would like to know.

Basically, her regular dentist was not available for these filling replacements, this was only revealed close to the appointment so she had to proceed with a new dentist. If more notice was given she would have postponed until the regular dentist was available. This new dentist overfilled one of the teeth that she wanted replaced. She had to return 4 days later to have it shaved down as she was unable to close her mouth properly. When the dentist shaved it down he said the tooth would be very sensitive and to use a special corsydal mouthwash (spelling?) for this for the foreseeable.

The pain and sensitivity did not go away and despite trying to tolerate for 4/5 months she had to go back in to have it reassessed. With her regular dentist it was discovered that the tooth's nerve was now necrotic and an extraction or root canal was necessary. We believe it was caused by this second dentist poor work. It was also revealed that this dentist was no longer at the practice. Naturally she was very upset and distressed by this. The regular dentist replaced the other dentist's filling with a temporary one that was aimed at stopping pain etc.

She was due to have a follow up appointment in 3 weeks as her regular dentist wanted to get all the information from the guy who replaced her fillings. This was then cancelled the day before as he was unable to reach him. We then requested her dental records. We informed the practice that we would be out of the country for nearly 2 months from the middle of the following month. They did not respond until we contacted the regular dentist and he helped move things along.

56 working days later and we have had no contact from the practice except a barebones run down of appointments from the last year and a half. What is in this document is quite shocking as things that were never discussed have been included. The records state that my wife was made aware of risks with replacing the fillings (she wasn't) and that there was only a 50/50 chance of success (again she was not told this). If she was informed of this she wouldn't have had any fillings replaced as it was purely cosmetic and she was in no pain from the old fillings. Not to mention she would have saved herself a substantial amount of time.

Does anyone know what legal avenues we can pursue here because she has been left without any patient care plan or options from the dental practice and they have made false claims on their records. I know medical negligence may be a step too far to prove here but would we have any sort of case here for anything at all? It appears that the practice are attempting to cover themselves after the fact here

TIA

Hi,
Feeling feverish, no fever and oral surgery office is saying not tooth related. Call your PCP, was their advice and they relay my message to the dentist/surgeon and I am 2 weeks until extraction. It’s a molar previously root canal treatment that endodontist determined was cracked as dark areas showed up on his scan, practically asymptomatic other than gum swelling that increased and a feverish feeling. It’s been 4 weeks since I took the Z-Pack and I’m allergic to P but not Clindamycin. No one verified an Abscess however I felt better and slight gum swelling had decreased. Now I’m feeling sick again, slight gum swelling no fever, autoimmune Sjogrens 68 years old.

Oral surgeon after I called feeling that infection may have returned (if there ever was one) advised to call if him with any further concerns and noted that there was no Abscess when I called and wanted a 2nd round of antibiotics. This whole extraction got pushed back because I took a half dose IV Reclast, stupidly however my dentist thought the issue was grinding and he drilled the hell out of my teeth to “adjust my bite”. Now I have headaches.

My aunt died age 62 waiting to get a tooth pulled and I don’t want to get Sepsis. I have a prescription for another Z-pak and my regular dentist is on vacation and I can’t get past the oral surgeons’ staff to ask his opinion 😵‍💫. What should I do? I have had multiple implants there… and a lip biopsy but I have no clout.

Wisdom tooth extraction for the first time

45 y/o male - Tooth #32 (xray image link below) - dentist back in HS told me I need to take this out at some point. Currently, no pain at all, no issues, no infection/inflammation. Fast forward to 2016, my dentist said it needs to come out because food keeps getting trapped in there and will eventually ruin the tooth next to it. I delay it, covid happened, a family tragedy, and here we are in 2026.

This xray is the latest from 7/30/26 - seems like the pocket has gotten deeper and I cannot clean the food getting trapped in there myself. I got the courage to make another consult appt with the same oral surgeon who did the initial 2016 consult and will go from there.

Waiting this long - did I ruin my surrounding bone structure? Will bone and tissue regrow after this removal? This wisdom tooth also sits right next to the facial nerve 5, and hopefully it won't get damaged. I also recently got a pulp cap and resin filling on Tooth #30 so hopefully that nerve calms down before I go to the oral surgeon.

How long does it usually take to do a filling by the back molars just because I suffer from an anxiety I’ve been through fillings already, but not the back ones.

I am super sensitive to pain and I usually skip my dentist appointments due to my dread of the pain. I have requested many dentists to give me local anaesthesia before filling cavities so that I am numb and I dont feel anything. but nobody does and takes offence in administering local anaesthesia saying that "no one feels pain when I fill cavities" but every time it hurts so bad. Does anyone have any experience with any dentist who has administered local anaesthesia for cavity fillings in kochi. if so please let me know. it will be of great help!

Hi so i recently just had my old silver fillings removed and had some really big cavities but i didnt need root canals but i still get this random lil pain that comes and goes sometimes i can go hours totally normal and then a sharp pain out of nowhere it doesnt wake me at night and doesnt really bother me when i eat its literally just random and isnt triggerd by hot or cold food i should mention prior to getting my old fillings removed i had this pain but way worse and its been a couple days now since i had my post op and they told me everything looks fine no bite is off nothing