What Causes Pain around your dental fillings
You may have pain following a dental filling for a number of reasons. Each has a unique origin.
- Your filling is obstructing your bite, causing discomfort when you bite. Get the filling reshaped by going back to your dentist.
- Pain when your teeth come into contact: The contact of two metal surfaces is probably what’s causing your suffering (for example, the silver amalgam in a newly filled tooth and a gold crown on another tooth with which it touches). It shouldn’t take long for this pain to go away on its own.
- Pain resembling a toothache: If the decay had reached the tooth pulp at a very deep level, this pain can develop. This “toothache” reaction could indicate that the tissue is unhealthy and that a root canal is necessary.
- Referred pain is discomfort or sensitivity in teeth other than the one that was filled. You don’t likely have any dental issues. The filled tooth is merely sending other teeth the “pain signals” it is experiencing. Over the course of a week or two, the pain should go away on its own.