Ok, let's start from the beginning. When I had my temporary in for about 3-4 weeks, I had pain about 30 minutes to an hour after I ate even though I didn't even eat on that side of the mouth where the temporary was. Ok, so finally comes the day where I have my porcelein crown put in. After this, the same thing, I have had pain every time I ate and it also started hurting the lower tooth that this upper porcelein crown grinds against. Then the pain gets better and I hope for it to go away. Now about 3 weeks to a month since I had it put in, a couple days ago in the middle of the night I start getting excruciating pain. Nothing helps, not even an ice bag. I wondered if the alcohol drinking the night before had anything to do with this. To help the pain, I started taking motrin. So then the same thing yesterday, I kept taking motrin to get rid of the pain. Now motrin doesnt seem to help anymore, not tylenol... NOTHING! I used ambesol but then I started hurting really bad just by touching my gums. I might have been too rough. So this has pretty much been continuing pain from 2-3 days ago. Not only that, but my lower tooth that this crown grinds again hurts a lot as well. In fact both of my lower and upper jaw on the right side of my mouth hurts as well. I also noticed that I have an impacted wisdom tooth that might be making matters worse. I tried leaving a message with my dentist who NEVER responded back. I have to change my appointment to make it sooner because I just can't bear the pain any longer. Do any of you know what kind of problem I have or if any other pain medication will help for the time being?
When you bite down does it feel like your teeth are hiting even on both side or does it fee like the crown is hiting first? This may sound funny, but if the tooth is to high for your bite it can cause the tooth to hurt really bad. If you let it go to long it can cause you to damage the nerve and you could have to have a root canal. I would get this checked. It's also possibel i don't know why you needed the crown, but if you had a large cavity when your dentist cleaned it out everything looked ok, but the nerve was infected at that time and there was no was for the dentist to tell either by looking at the tooth or the xray. That is possible. I would diffently get your bite checked first.
Oh I feel your pain....I am going through something very similar....I had a crown done on a bottom molar about 8 weeks ago (I had a very deep old filling and my tooth cracked). Like you the temp crown was almost unbearable for me, I couldn't bite down, and after I drank any alchohol, thumping pain would wake me up at night..I am surprised your dentist even put your perm crown in with the pain you are having. My dentist glued my permanent in, but used temporary cement. I am now about 3 weeks with the perm crown, I went to see him yesterday and he ground it down for me because it was too high and was bothering the tooth above it. He wants to wait and see if that helps but I think at this point I need to just get the root canal. And your pain sounds worse than mine, I can tolerate biting and chewing with my perm crown, but its still not perfect.
If you dentist is being uncooperative, FIRST, GET ANOTHER DENTIST RIGHT AWAY, then at least get a consultation with and endodontist (those are the guys who specialize in root problems)
Good Luck.
Thanks so much for your replies. I already have my porcelein crown in. But I realized my pain might be stemming from the two wisdom tooth coming in at the top and bottom. I am not absolutely sure though, but it seems to help when I put an ice pack over the area where my wisdom tooth is impacted. It's lodged up my gums, I really dont think it will be easy to get out. I see the dentist today and if I dont like what they have to say, I will be seeing someone else. I am so afraid though, because with this type of extraction where the wisdom tooth is all the way up your gums, I might have to be put to sleep to have it extracted. And that scares me. I'm afraid there might be complications etc and I'll never wake up or something. It doesnt help that I smoke either. And I know I'll have to stop at least a week or more before I get that type of surgery done.
I cant bite down at all on my right side. I know that there might be horrible pain if I even chew on that area once. So I'm just trying to avoid any type of movement on that side. It hurts when I even open my mouth up too wide etc. The night before last night, the pain was just so awful. It doesnt make it easy when pain medication didnt seem to help either. The pain was so unbearable, I was having delusions in the middle of the night. I don't know how it relates. But I used to get delusions when I was younger which isn't normal, so it scared me that I was having them again.
I'm always having some type of problem or other with my mouth. I had one wisdom tooth extracted a year ago and thought that would be all I needed to have done since that was all that was bothering me at the time. But geez, this time the pain is just so much worse.
I dont trust this dentist either. I dont know how much experience he has in oral surgery.
Puppy, Don't even worry about having teeth out while you are asleep, you WANT it that way! I had all 4 impacted wisdom teeth pulled when I was 16 (many years ago)- in the hospital under general anesthesia. I'll tell you what, I had a lot less post-op pain then than I do with this damn crown. Of course they give you good drugs.... But Ithink its gotta be better asleep, you don't hear see or feel a thing. I was 16 and my dentist had offered to knock me out in his office and do it, but I flipped out and my mom took me to another dentist who would knock me out in the hospital. I don't know, I felt better thinking if something DID happen when I was under, I was in the hosptial, not in a dentist's office....
At any rate I smoke too, had my gallbladder out last year, you definitely can smoke up to I think it was 24 hours prior to the operation. The nurses/doctors didn't freak out on me because I smoke and I had to go under general anesthesia. One thing I couldn't do the week before was take aspirin, since it thins the blood.
At any rate it sounds to me, and I am by far no expert, you must need a root canal, the pain you say you have sounds just like everyone else I have talked to who had them done. Talk to an endodontist really, maybe they can give you Percocet or Vicodin until you get it taken care of.
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