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Jumper34
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So about 11 days ago. I had a filling in my last molar in the back on the bottom. The tooth is crooked, because the wisdom teeth caused it to come in funny I guess. My dentist died last year sadly. He was the only dentist I have ever really felt comfortable with and has made me feel like I'm not a horrible person when it comes to my teeth. So there are a few temporary dentists in there for now. I've been seeing one of them and I really like him and he's been very good. But this past visit it was a new guy. As soon as he looked at the tooth he almost started to get nervous and anxious about it being a little tilted inwards. So once he numbed me, we waited and waited and he started, but I could still feel some pain so he numbed me about 4-5 more times. I thought that was a little overkill but I'm not the dentist. Anyways, we started and he was all but ripping my jaw open to get to this tooth. He had cut my tongue with the drill, and he was just being very rough. I understand that that might have been needed to fill this tooth, but it has already been filled once by my previous dentist and he didn't seem to have a problem with it. So he finished and says that he couldn't get my contact very good, I might have to come back. That was a little frustrating to me because I have a busy busy schedule with work and school. I came home and all but had a panic attack because it was just a very traumatic experience, with him holding my jaw open and stabbing me with the needle to numb me and cutting my tongue... Ugh. So, I couldn't really feel anything until about midnight because that whole side of my mouth was numb. That night my jaw was very sore. I woke up and it was a little better, two days pass and it doesn't really hurt at all. But Saturday Night, this happened on Wednesday, my jaw just started to ache. Not the tooth per say, but my jaw, where my jaw opens and closes, there are sharp pains at my cheek bone and my ear and my cheek almost feels tingly sometimes.
So. I go back on Monday. Same dentist is in there and I tell him that something is wrong. My bite might be wrong because I used to be able to feel my bbottom two teeth, touch my top two teeth. But now they only do on the right side. (Filling is on left). So be looks and he tells me to bite down and says, "oh yeah I see it." So he files it down some. No dice. Mind you, when he saw it was me, he started to get like a weird anxious about that tilted tooth. So he's bouncing around in my mouth at 100mph grinding on the tooth with the filling, the one above it, and another tooth closer to the front on the bottom that he did in the same appointment. Still nothing changed. So he started tapping around on the tooth. Hard. With his littl
e instrument. It didn't hurt until he tapped right on the filling. Making it metal on metal, which will no doubt hurt no matter what! After that he says, no your bite is fine. You have pulpitis, since the tooth is tilted, you might as well pull it. Oh my gosh. I have not been that close to the point of tears in the dentist office in years. I was sooooooo frustrated. I just kept trying to ask him questions like why doesnt my tooth hurt and why is it only my jaw and cheek bone and stuff and he just kept saying I don't know... I don't know... He took an X-ray and nothing was inflamed, there's not an abscess... It just looks like a normal tooth with a filling. He gave me a prescription for ibuprofen, steroids, and antibiotics. So I saw my dental hygienist on the way out and told her what was going on. She told me to take ibuprofen and to eat soft foods for a while and come back on Monday because there was the other dentist coming back that day.
Ugh. So I've been taking all that medication and its making it bearable, but its still painful. Sometimes I'll barely be in pain, but other times for example if I have to talk a lot, or smile a lot, it will be pretty painful. I don't know what this is, but I need to know. I'm losing sleep over the idea of losing a tooth, or worse, this dentist doing something to mess up my jaw or nerves in my tooth/jaw.
Like I said above, my jaw aches where it opens and closes, and down almost to my chin, my ear and cheek bone have sharp stabbing pains, sometimes my cheek will feel tingly, and my surrounding teeth start to hurt sometimes on that side. And that tooth does not hurt to touch it, only is sensitive to cold sometimes. Face is not swollen either.
So if I could please, please get some dentists input, it would really ease my anxiety ridden mind before my appointment tomorrow. Thank you.
So. I go back on Monday. Same dentist is in there and I tell him that something is wrong. My bite might be wrong because I used to be able to feel my bbottom two teeth, touch my top two teeth. But now they only do on the right side. (Filling is on left). So be looks and he tells me to bite down and says, "oh yeah I see it." So he files it down some. No dice. Mind you, when he saw it was me, he started to get like a weird anxious about that tilted tooth. So he's bouncing around in my mouth at 100mph grinding on the tooth with the filling, the one above it, and another tooth closer to the front on the bottom that he did in the same appointment. Still nothing changed. So he started tapping around on the tooth. Hard. With his littl
e instrument. It didn't hurt until he tapped right on the filling. Making it metal on metal, which will no doubt hurt no matter what! After that he says, no your bite is fine. You have pulpitis, since the tooth is tilted, you might as well pull it. Oh my gosh. I have not been that close to the point of tears in the dentist office in years. I was sooooooo frustrated. I just kept trying to ask him questions like why doesnt my tooth hurt and why is it only my jaw and cheek bone and stuff and he just kept saying I don't know... I don't know... He took an X-ray and nothing was inflamed, there's not an abscess... It just looks like a normal tooth with a filling. He gave me a prescription for ibuprofen, steroids, and antibiotics. So I saw my dental hygienist on the way out and told her what was going on. She told me to take ibuprofen and to eat soft foods for a while and come back on Monday because there was the other dentist coming back that day.Ugh. So I've been taking all that medication and its making it bearable, but its still painful. Sometimes I'll barely be in pain, but other times for example if I have to talk a lot, or smile a lot, it will be pretty painful. I don't know what this is, but I need to know. I'm losing sleep over the idea of losing a tooth, or worse, this dentist doing something to mess up my jaw or nerves in my tooth/jaw.
Like I said above, my jaw aches where it opens and closes, and down almost to my chin, my ear and cheek bone have sharp stabbing pains, sometimes my cheek will feel tingly, and my surrounding teeth start to hurt sometimes on that side. And that tooth does not hurt to touch it, only is sensitive to cold sometimes. Face is not swollen either.
So if I could please, please get some dentists input, it would really ease my anxiety ridden mind before my appointment tomorrow. Thank you.
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