Filling - high or problematic?

[night_natter]

I recently had a couple of deep fillings. Bottom first and second molars. Both had pulp capping applied. My dentist spent a lot of time trying to get the bite right, but it still feels a little off. It doesn’t hurt to eat on that side, but it just doesn’t feel right. I am aware of it all throughout the day.
The fillings were done last week. Does it take a while for these deep fillings (composite) to settle? I have another appointment on Wednesday for a crown on the other side of my lower molars…I will definitely ask her to have a look. Hopefully it just needs a little more grinding.

Question about failed fillings…how long would it take for me to feel the ache and pain if these fillings fail? They don’t seem sensitive to cold water but I have upper molars on the same side that need fixing and they feel a little sensitive. I do wonder if my awareness is more about those molars.

A little worried that all this deep work will fail and I’ll be down for RCTs and crowns everywhere.

 

[Gordon]

Question about failed fillings…how long would it take for me to feel the ache and pain if these fillings fail?

It's impossible to say. Depends a lot on how healthy the nerve was in the first place, how wide the opening is at the apex of the root (better blood flow, better healing in general), how old you are and so on.
If the bite is still a bit off that won't be helping anything settle down.

 

[night_natter]

@Gordon Thanks for responding. As I said, I will ask my dentist to have a look tomorrow. Hopefully she can fix the high filling.

When she finished the fillings last week she did say that she’d only just touched the nerve. I only just felt the sharpness when she was drilling for the filling. But the silver filling she replaced was large and had been there since the early 1990s. Fingers are crossed.

 

[night_natter]

Just as a matter of an update. My dentist polished my filling yesterday and it now feels fine. No more weird feeling….although that might be because the weird feeling has now gone onto my other side with my new crown and its gum recovery.

 

[Gordon]

Well, that's progress
I got 2 new crowns 4 weeks ago, I'm still just about getting used to them, but I'm old and stuck in my ways...

 

[night_natter]

Mine isn’t too bad. I’m finding that I have more discomfort in my jaw from holding it open and also tenderness from the local anaesthetic needle points.
My dentist did have a slight problem with separating the point of contact with the rear molar due to the crown glue oozing out on one side though, so I’m on interdental brushes on the crown until it settles or she might have to redo the adjacent filling. Annoying, but hopefully the glue might dissipate before my next appointment.