Monthly Archives: Tooth Pain

• Tooth Hurts and Dentist Can't Figure Out Why?

  I had an accident while I was out of town. I had an emergency emergency dental appointment that resulted from that accident because of trauma to the tooth. I had two teeth hit. One of them was broken. The other was okay. The dentist did an emergency root canal treatment on the broken tooth. When…

• Is Needing a Root Canal a Dental Emergency?

  If a tooth needs a root canal treatment but doesn’t have any pain, is it a dental emergency or can it wait? On that note, if it can wait, how long can it wait? Tyson Dear Tyson, Root Canal Treatment This is kind of tricky to answer because I have not examined your tooth. I…

• Tooth pain with Invisalign

  I am on my fifth set of aligners with invisalign. I’m having pretty bad tooth pain. My dentist wondered if I could have a leaky filling. He wants to remove it and put in a temporary filling to see how it does. Do you think this is OK? Brenda L.- Washington Brenda, There could be…

• Why do I have pain after getting a filling?

  Ten days ago I had a white composite filling placed in one of my molars. Almost immediately, I started feeling really extreme pain in my jaw, radiating up to the top of my head and down to my neck, on the same side as the new filling. I’m getting by taking Motrin constantly, but this…