What to do if you have toothache after dental filling

Tooth filling is equivalent to tooth filling. It is a treatment method that fills the broken teeth to make your teeth look more beautiful. However, many people will experience pain after having a tooth filled. Many problems may cause this symptom, and toothaches caused by different symptoms require different treatments. So, what should you do if you have toothache after having a dental filling? The following will introduce you to the relevant knowledge in detail!

1. What does tooth blocking mean?

The process is roughly as follows: first clean off the plaster or porcelain filling material you had before, then use special tools to clean the tooth root. After cleaning, use medical cotton to dip in anti-inflammatory and analgesic solution and put it into the tooth hole. After changing the medicine several times in a row, until the tooth root is completely swollen, then use root expansion surgery to expand the tooth root, and then implant several steel nails into the tooth root. The steel nails will be covered with anti-inflammatory drugs and plaster. After the root is implanted, clean the impurities in the tooth, fill the tooth hole with plaster mixed with anti-inflammatory drugs, and then use a small grinding wheel to grind the edge and surface of the tooth. The intuitive effect is that the tooth is smaller. After polishing, bite a tooth mark and make a brace based on the tooth mark. Braces are made of stainless steel and porcelain. It is recommended to use porcelain, which is beautiful and strong, but the disadvantage is that it is brittle.

2. Causes of toothache after filling

1. This is because the pulp is stimulated by the disinfectant during the preparation of the cavity for the filling or the disinfection drug. Short-term hot or cold stimulation pain may occur. Such situations do not require special treatment and generally recover on their own after 1 to 2 days.

2. Due to the need for treatment, the dental pulp is deactivated (commonly known as killing the nerves). Toothaches may occur on the day or the next day after the deactivation drug is applied due to the effect of the drug, but the pain will not be severe and will not last for a long time.

3. The caries cavity is deep and the padding material used is too thin to block the hot and cold stimulation conducted by the silver-mercury alloy, resulting in symptoms of hot and cold stimulation pain. This requires thickening the base material before filling.

3. Things to note when filling a tooth

If you experience slight pain after a tooth filling, you can observe yourself first. Some slight discomfort and pain may disappear over time. If the pain not only does not ease but worsens, or if biting pain, throbbing pain, pain caused by hot or cold stimulation, or spontaneous pain at night occur, you should seek timely follow-up examination and treatment to identify the cause and eliminate the pain.

Follow your doctor's advice and do not chew food or hard objects with your newly filled teeth. After a tooth is filled, you should generally chew food on the affected side on the 2nd or 3rd day to prevent the tooth from breaking and the filling from falling off.

Follow up with your doctor at the time agreed upon by your doctor.

For teeth with large areas of defects that are severely damaged by caries, tooth fractures are prone to occur during chewing due to insufficient resistance of the tooth itself after restoration. Therefore, after filling these teeth, the affected teeth should be protected with shell crowns in time according to the doctor's advice to prevent the crowns from breaking.