
retroboy
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Hello, first time poster here and pleased to find this forum.
I've suffered from a fear of the dentist since childhood. About 18 months ago I plucked up courage to have a filling replaced in my upper Molar. The filling lasted less than a year before showing signs of decay so about 5 months ago I went back to have it re-done. The dentist said it wasn't close to the nerve and should be pretty straight forward but seemed to have problems fitting the dental clamp (dam?) to my upper molar and the clamp was very painful during the procedure on my gum.
Ever since I have had a strange very mild dull ache in that molar (no sharp pain and not temperature sensitive and no change in pain while chewing) just this constant 1/10 pain.
The best way I can describe the pain is like the dental clamp/ dam still attached to my molar/ gum.
I went back to a different dentist last week and he said it could be 'composite shrinkage' so he re-did the filling (the 3rd time in 18 months) but the pain is still there, a constant mild ache. I noticed that during the filling procedure I felt a lot of discomfort with the dental dam clamp again so I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the pain I'm having or if it's inflamed nerves from so many procedures on the same tooth?
I'm panicking I need a root canal now and I'm sick with worry. Would anyone know if this will settle down or what it might be?
Many thanks for reading my (very long) first post!
I've suffered from a fear of the dentist since childhood. About 18 months ago I plucked up courage to have a filling replaced in my upper Molar. The filling lasted less than a year before showing signs of decay so about 5 months ago I went back to have it re-done. The dentist said it wasn't close to the nerve and should be pretty straight forward but seemed to have problems fitting the dental clamp (dam?) to my upper molar and the clamp was very painful during the procedure on my gum.
Ever since I have had a strange very mild dull ache in that molar (no sharp pain and not temperature sensitive and no change in pain while chewing) just this constant 1/10 pain.
The best way I can describe the pain is like the dental clamp/ dam still attached to my molar/ gum.
I went back to a different dentist last week and he said it could be 'composite shrinkage' so he re-did the filling (the 3rd time in 18 months) but the pain is still there, a constant mild ache. I noticed that during the filling procedure I felt a lot of discomfort with the dental dam clamp again so I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the pain I'm having or if it's inflamed nerves from so many procedures on the same tooth?
I'm panicking I need a root canal now and I'm sick with worry. Would anyone know if this will settle down or what it might be?
Many thanks for reading my (very long) first post!
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