I got a temporary crown on a lower molar on Wednesday, and that tooth has been low-level aching ever since the freezing came out - right down deep into my jaw. Is this normal, and is this tooth ever going to stop aching? When I get the permanent crown next Saturday, is that going to ache for the rest of my life? Cause this is kinda sucking. (I’m scared to floss around the temp crown, too, cause I tried to floss the night of the visit, and it felt like I was flossing the nerve.)
How about care and feeding of my permanent crown? Will I be able to floss it like a regular tooth? Will I be able to eat and stuff without thinking about it? Will it become a normal part of my mouth, and I won’t even notice it’s there?
I don’t know if my experience is typical or even normal, but every temporary crown I’ve had has hurt, and the permanent ones usually feel kind of weird and even a little painful for the first few days. I put this down to the drilling/molding/poking/prodding the dentist does before the crown goes on. I know that my gums are usually at least a little swollen, and it makes sense to me that my tooth would hurt after being worked on, just as any other part of my body would ache after surgery. The pain felt just as you describe - a deep ache down to the jawbone. It does go away, though, as long as the root (heh) problem is fixed.
If your tooth starts hurting more or your mouth starts to swell near it, call your dentist. If not, be sure to mention your concerns when you go in for the permanent crown, just so your dentist can check it over. Good luck!
My temp crowns have always hurt. Once the “permanent” crowns get put in… pain goes away. At least that’s what I I found with the 5 (is it 5 now? ) crowns that I have had put in. Purely subjectively… I think the temp crown adhesive makes things worse… not being designed to hold for a lifetime and all.
If it weren’t so darned expensive, I’d have crowns on ALL my teeth.
YMMV---- as I’m sure the skill of the dentist plays a vital role.
It’s been several years since I last had a crown done. I can’t even rememeber exactly how many I have , and I’d be really hard pressed to tell you which ones they were. They blend right in with the real teeth. Of course, YMMV.
Of course, now I’m suddenly *very *aware of which ones the are …
Be sure to mention this to your dentist. Most likely, and really, most likely, it is typical and will go away when the real crown is attached.
However, my SO a few years ago had a crown put on, but the dentist overlooked a more serious decay and compounded it by simply putting a crown over it…at least that is the story the second dentist said when we decided not to go back to the first one. He needed serious root canal work. We even looked into suing the first dentist, but found that it is not easy to prove that the decay was first or after the crown was put on.
Hope I am not making you paranoid. Just mention the pain to your dentist.
I’ve always had some aching after serious dental work that ends with crowns - I don’t know what you had done to the tooth itself, but if they had to do any kind of build-up, then that can lead to aching. DMark is right, though - mention it to the dentist just so he/she can make sure that there’s not something more serious there.
Permanent crowns (I’ve got five). Yes, you will be able to floss around it. When they first put it in, you’ll notice it, just because it will feel different from the temp crown, but you will get used to it very quickly and it will be just another tooth in your mouth.
Once you get the permanent crown in, though, the dentist will check to see how it’s seated against the other teeth, especially the upper ones. This usually is fairly straightforward. With one of mine, it turned out that it was a little high - just barely off enough that it felt fine in the office, but about 24 hours later, I was having serious pain whenever I shut my mouth. I had to go back in, he ground it down just a tiny bit, and it was great. I’ve never had another problem with it.
I have a grand total of one. It ached a lot for about three weeks, but I was able to knock that out with ibuprofen. It was also super-super-super sensitive to anything that wasn’t mouth temperature for several weeks; it was amazing when I realized it wasn’t doing that anymore. I think it was pissed, after all the drilling and the building up and all.
I remember my teeth hurting like crazy when I had braces, so I think I just have really sensitive teeth. In the long run, it’s great, I don’t even notice it, which is rather remarkable for a hunk 'o metal. It’s a back molar and was in really bad shape, so metal was the best option according to my dentist. I don’t care how it looks, I care about how it works, and it works fine.
I was freaked about getting it, but the worst part was actually the final fitting, and that wasn’t all that bad either. And now I don’t have to worry about getting it crowned sometime down the road, either, unless something goes seriously wrong.
I think that might be the problem - it is too high, and I can feel it interfering with my bite. It felt fine this morning, but by mid-afternoon, it’s back to deep aching again.Probably not worth it to get it fixed when the permanent crown is going on in five days, I figure. I’ll be sure to discuss it with the dentist, anyway.
See if you can get in to see the dentist tomorrow. Adjusting the bite now will give the tooth a chance to calm down before cementing.
I work for a dentist. Crown patients are told at least twice before they leave the office to call if they experience persistent sensitivity to pressure. 90% of those who experience this will comply. That other 10% drives us nuts.
I’m starting to think that’s really good advice, since the throbbing in my tooth kept me up half the night. I don’t really understand what you mean by “sensitivity to pressure”, though. My tooth aches some times, and doesn’t ache other times, and it feels high. I would not have called that sensitivity to pressure, but if that’s what it is, that’s what I’ve got.
Definitely talk to your dentist about it ASAP. Go in and get it fixed. If the crown is too high, it’s bad for the nerve in your tooth to keep abusing it every time you bite down on it, and it’s easy enough to fix. I had my temporary crown ground down a bit and it was fine until the permanent one came in. I had to have the permanent one adjusted several times too.
Okay, had my bite adjusted, now the tooth is hurting like a sonuvabitch. It’s probably just sensitive from all the abuse lately (who wouldn’t be? ) - the dentist doesn’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with it. Ah, teeth - can’t live with 'em, can’t eat hard foods without 'em.
) - the dentist doesn’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with it. Ah, teeth - can’t live with 'em, can’t eat hard foods without 'em.