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Ok, I have a bit of a problem, bare with me while I go into extreme mind numbingly boring detail in the hopes that someone can help. For the past year I have had a large cavity in my tooth in the top row a couple of teeth away from the front. It was pretty big but it didn’t hurt and wasn’t visible from the front, so since I hate the dentist with a fiery passion I let it get worse and worse until one night it was suddenly unbelievably painful. I couldn’t sleep, eat or focus on anything it was so painful. I went to the emergency dentist at my local hospital. I think he removed the nerves and he gave me a temporary filling. Having just lost the majority of the tooth I figured I better get myself a dentist. After allot of phone calls I managed to find an NHS dentist that had space for me and I attended my first appointment to get x-rayed and all that jazz.
Now this is where the story gets funky. Now I’m not a dentist obviously but to me the x-rays looked like you know, normal teeth. And I’d never had any pain in my teeth before. However the dentist decided I needed like allot of fillings in all my back teeth. I’ve taken care of my teeth, brushed twice a day and all that stuff. But hay, she’s a dentist, she must know what she’s talking about right?
Now the whole reason I went to the dentist was to get a proper long term filling in my tooth to replace the temp. To this day after four sessions and ten fillings I still haven’t had this done. The temporary filling is completely gone but she still just keeps messing with teeth that I’ve never had a problem with before. And guess what? Now all the teeth top and bottom on the right side of my face and my jaw hurt constantly. I’m talking all the time, I’m living on pain killers.

I also have a fear that she has given me nerve damage on the right side of my face. About a month and a half ago she drilled and filled the teeth at the back on the bottom row on the right side. When she injected me it was incredibly painful, when I mention to her that it hurt so much more that the other injections she had given me she said that it was easier in the bottom row to inject the anaesthetic directly into the nerve. Is this right? Surely this would damage the nerve? I’m afraid to go back in case she does more damage but I can’t find another dentist who can talk to me and help me find out what she’s done to me. I don’t even think I needed any of the fillings she’s given me. Can anyone advice me on what I can do. Is pain lasting this long normal? And how can I tell if I do in fact have nerve damage in my face?