I had a deep filling put in a tooth about 6 weeks ago, but over the weekend I got really bad toothache in it again. I'm 250 miles away from my dentist so I had to go to a different one today as an emergency. He did an x-ray and said the original filling was too close to the nerve so he did a root canal and put a temporary medicated filling in the tooth. He also did a filling in the tooth directly behind it which had a large cavity he thought might be contributing to the pain (I'm in the middle of getting a LOT of fillings with my own dentist but I'm home for 6 weeks holiday).
The pain is a lot better now than it was over the weekend, but I'm really quite tender in the quadrant that was worked on. I know it's just from the drilling etc and because the cavity was pretty deep, but how long will it take for that pain to go away? I've been in pain constantly now for the past 4 or 5 days!!!
2006-06-26
07:20:10
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