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Is it natural for recently filled teeth to hurt when you bite down hard?

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Hi, in the last 2 weeks, I have had some fillings put in. They are the white ones, not the silver ones.

Is it all right if it hurts when I do a deep hard bite with my bare teeth?

When my dentist was checking my bite by placing a waxy blue sheet of paper in between my bottom and top teeth, it did not hurt at all when I was biting down and griding my teeth. But when I do it with my bare teeth it hurts. Is this natural? Will that pain go away after awhile?
 
Re: Is it natural for recently filled teeth to hurt when you bite down hard?

No, it's not quite right, it would be worth getting the bite checked again.
 
Re: Is it natural for recently filled teeth to hurt when you bite down hard?

No, it's not quite right, it would be worth getting the bite checked again.
I think they already reshaped the filling down as much as they can.

I don't have dental insurance so I go to a clinic sort of dental office. So I kind of hate to keep asking them to reshape my fillings.
 
Re: Is it natural for recently filled teeth to hurt when you bite down hard?

The dentist should adjust the bite for you without charging you for it, whatever kind of clinic it is. Setting the bite is part of the filling, and it's not uncommon to require an adjustment. (Sometimes it's hard to do the tap-tap-grind thing correctly when you're anesthetized.)

I recently had a tooth that was killing me after root canal treatment (which is unusual), any time I bit down on it. It turned out there was a high spot on the temporary filling, and the force of my bite was being concentrated on that little spot. It took about ten seconds to shape it down a little, and it made a huge difference.
 
Re: Is it natural for recently filled teeth to hurt when you bite down hard?

The dentist should adjust the bite for you without charging you for it, whatever kind of clinic it is. Setting the bite is part of the filling, and it's not uncommon to require an adjustment. (Sometimes it's hard to do the tap-tap-grind thing correctly when you're anesthetized.)

I recently had a tooth that was killing me after root canal treatment (which is unusual), any time I bit down on it. It turned out there was a high spot on the temporary filling, and the force of my bite was being concentrated on that little spot. It took about ten seconds to shape it down a little, and it made a huge difference.
For me though it does not hurt when I eat, or have my jaw and mouth closed. it only hurts if I purposly close my teeth strongly or rub my fillings and teeth together.
 
Re: Is it natural for recently filled teeth to hurt when you bite down hard?

That happened to me, and it went away after a couple of weeks
 
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