Does it hurt to get anesthesia for a tooth filling?

When filling a tooth, sometimes anesthesia is needed. For example, during root canal treatment, local anesthesia is required. At this time, the necrotic content inside must be taken out, and then anesthesia is given. The patient will feel a certain feeling. The doctor will usually use a needle to test and ask you if it hurts. Only when you feel no pain will the treatment be started. In addition, when changing the dressing, the contents inside need to be taken out to prevent the bacteria inside from being trapped inside.

After filling a tooth, our patients should pay attention to the following issues:

1. Before filling a tooth, we need to clean the inner and outer walls of the tooth to prevent subsequent problems caused by bacteria after the filling. Therefore, disinfectants are likely to remain in the teeth. When the anesthetic wears off and our senses recover, these remaining disinfectants will stimulate our dental pulp, so we may feel toothache. This situation will generally subside after a few days, so there is no need to worry too much.

2. In some cases, due to severe tooth decay, the necrotic tooth part was not cleaned thoroughly enough, resulting in pulp inflammation and pain again after we filled the tooth. In this case, another filling is needed.

3. After a filling, the tooth loses the nutritional supply from the pulp and its strength decreases. Do not chew hard food to prevent the filling from breaking. If necessary, please follow the doctor's advice to repair the crown in time to avoid tooth fracture after filling;

4: On the day of filling, you should avoid biting hard food with the side of the filling. When the filling material is completely hardened, the tooth can perform normal chewing function. To avoid pulpitis caused by tooth fillings, if you experience irritating pain such as cold, heat, sourness, and sweetness after tooth filling, you should go to the hospital for treatment in time; if the filling is cracked or loose, you should see a dentist for a follow-up visit as soon as possible.

Dietary issues after dental fillings:

1: Choose tender vegetables and cook them until they are soft and finely chopped. They can then be made into sauces, minced meats, juices and other foods. This eating method should be maintained until 1 week after surgery.

2. Diet for tooth extraction: Within 1-2 days after the operation, you don’t need to consider the nutritional supply of the diet too much. Starting from the third day, you should pay attention to choosing high-nutrition, high-protein diet, such as milk, vegetable and meat porridge, stewed tofu, jam bread, tofu pudding, tomato and egg stew, etc.

3. The diet should be light and no meat or fish should be consumed. Do not eat rough foods, such as leeks, celery, hard rice, etc., so as to avoid the rough particles irritating the wound and hindering healing.