Fillings, and the wonderful pain that ensues...

[PinkFloydYoshi]

I'm having a bit of a dilemma. I was going to ask this in the chat room, as it's so popular, but I thought I'd try and strike up some activity on the board by asking here. :s

Stupid as I was when I was younger, I never really went to the dentist. Infact, it took me 13 years to actually pluck up the courage to just go and get it out of the way, as I knew full well something was going to be done.

5 local anaesthetic jabs, 2 removed teeth and 2 fillings later (All in the past 2 months. :S), I have found that waiting all this time has not paid off. :/

Has anyone here had fillings done to block gaps or such in their teeth?

If so, is there anything which can be done about the major sensitivity issues caused by having very hot or very cold drinks?

Yeah, the filling is metal(Well, actually no, it's a compound of Aluminium that was constructed not to rust - It'd be well funky if we had people's mouths going rusty, get out the WD45!) and all, but even with the Dentin exposed I could drink hot and cold, and not have these pains while drinking hot and cold, so why now, it's a mystery to me. Ideas on how to combat it? And no, having painkillers everytime I want a cup of tea won't suffice, as I can get through 4+ cups of tea a day. :/

[Yoshiken]

Ah yes, I have a metal filling in one of my molars ^^. The first two months of the filling, all liquids that went into my mouth that was not in a comfortable range of the current room temperature, such as hot cocoa or almost frozen kool-aid, would create a very uncomfortable feeling in my mouth. This is, of course, because of a metals high conductivity of heat. I tried various methods to attempt to stop the uncomfortable feeling, but nothing really worked. After a few months though, you really don't feel a thing, and things taste just like they used to. I can't really give any helpful advice, except to wait until your nerves get used to the sensitivity and start ignoring it. ^^

[yro Pedward]

Wrong Yoshiken. What's needed is root canal. Evil, yeah, I know. I've got mines last year because the toothache reacts to the pain, it was horrible that day on November as I remember. Never hold back the problem, contact your dentist immediately to get root canal done and taking out your nerve. When I have mines removed, i was reliefed, then measured 2 needles inside your tooth, in order to fill up your teeth. Let me tell you, i couldn't sleep from few days of pain, because it was too late for me to reach to dentist, that was closed on weekends. Then this year (Jan. 4th), I've got my tooth crowned, as in, filling my tooth again (after redrilling open and take out 2 needle plastics), sealed back up. Nothing hot or cold that day would stop it's evil raging pain. So there you have it. I hope this helps, Pinky.

[Twi]

Being the master of the dental care as I am (13 injections, 12 teeth removed, 4 types of braces, 1 operation and 3 fillings) the way it worked for me was drinking flat lemonade through a straw for a few weeks. Basically I left a bottle of the stuff out for a while until it wasn't cold and fizzy and drank through a straw to minimize contact with teeth. Generally it works like a charm. If you want to drink tea, make it quite milky and let it cool off for a while and use a straw. It'll make you look stupid but it'll help with the pain.

[UMS Author Lava]

I think it was after a week or less that my fillings stop being so sensitive.
However, two of my filled molars are still touchy.
It is annoying...

[Toshi]

Am I the only person who's never suffered sensitivity from fillings? =S I've had fillings to block holes in my teeth, but never have I been in pain from them.

I can't actually give advice on how to prevent the sensitivity, since I've never suffered such, though I guess if you want to combat it, give that Sensodyne toothpaste a try, it might ease it off for ya.

[Yoshifrog]

As for fillings, I get the white ones, like, not the silver ones.
I'm sorry I'm no help, but I have never felt discomfort after a filling.

So far I've had 6 fillings, four root canals, and I have a stupid overbite.
The root canals were due to like, I don't know. I got them when I was five (and still remember them) and the way my mom explained it to me was my teeth were dead. Like the insides. Or maybe the "enamal" was comming off. I don't know what in God's name that means, but it sounds like you might need a root canal for it.
Actually, the root canals were painless.
God I love you, you little shots you, with your magic, numbing powers.

And yeah, I don't have buck teeth.
If I had buck teeth I'd operate on the hanus things ]:

Overbite is when your jaw is slightly set back. It's not even visible that I have an overbite. But they say it's bad that my bottom teeth don't touch my top teeth when I chew.

I say all you need to chew is the molars. Chewing with your front teeth sounds painstaking.
So yeah,
I have sensitive little loser-teeth, and when I was little all I wanted was to remove all my teeth and get dentures.