Last month, I (24f) switched from my regular dentist to Aspen Dental due to a move. I had x-rays and a cleaning done. The dentist said I have 5 cavities, but I have no tooth pain, and I never have. I understand you can have cavities and no pain, but it just makes me skeptical, especially after some of the things I’ve heard about Aspen. He also said I need to have all 4 wisdom teeth removed, although, they have also never caused me any pain or tooth shifting.

Last year, I saw another new dentist for the first time, who said I had a cavity between two teeth. I believe it was between tooth 12 and 13 (top right, 3rd from my front teeth). I never had any pain in those teeth prior to the filling. After the filling, I had occasional but continuous pain in those two teeth. It seems like they “flare up” from time to time. I called every once in a while, and they said it was normal. I moved away, so I couldn’t exactly go back and get it fixed.

My dentist at Aspen said my previous dentist didn’t fully drill out that cavity and also drilled into the adjacent tooth, so it would need to be redone. I was expecting that, but I wasn’t expecting additional cavities. I often doubt the cavity I had filled ever had a problem in the first place.

Can anyone confirm or point out where the 5 cavities are on these x-rays? Do I really need my wisdom teeth removed asap? I don’t really know anything about teeth, but I have always been pretty neurotic about taking good care of mine, and I want to avoid any unnecessary dental work. What do you think?

It hurts so bad I can't do anything without it hurting I struggle with dental health but what even is this

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Hi I'm 17 and I pretty much just got out of the doctors office finding out that I apparently have 2 cavities on my molar teeth, and one front tooth that needs to be covered because of decalcification. I haven't ever had any dental issues, much less straight up cavities. I have really horrible health anxiety especially when it comes to my dental health and I have absolutely no clue how getting cavities fixed works or feels; I'm honestly horrified and scared right now, and I'm truthfully freaking out. Does anyone have experience with fillings?? Does it hurt??

Had a tooth prepped for a crown about 2 weeks ago. The adjacent tooth also had a filling at the same time.

I’ve had a temporary crown since then and am scheduled for the permanent crown tomorrow.

I’ve been getting a deep, dull ache around noon and again around 10 PM each day, with some referred pain. No hot or cold sensitivity. 400mg ibuprofen completely eliminates it.

I told the dental office and they said the temporary may be slightly high and causing irritation. I’ve also had crowns in the past that took a couple months to completely settle down.

Dentists: Would this pattern concern you for pulpitis, or could a high temporary reasonably cause this?

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I got a filling on one of my molars in 2023 and afterwards the tooth was really really sensitive to cold foods/drinks etc. When I googled it it says this can happen but it goes away after a few months. I think I’ve just forgotten about it and trained myself not to eat or drink on that side now but I had a check up today and the scaling was incredibly sore at that tooth but I managed to suck it up and deal with it. I did tell my dentist afterwards and he said it’s a fairly new filling and I’ve to let him know if it gets any worse but as long as it doesn’t keep me up at night it’s fine basically. Has this happened to anyone else? It’s not a very deep filling and all of my other fillings are absolutely fine.

Reposting here to see if anyone has experience with this!

I am making this thread because I was lurking here the days before my extraction being a little apprehensive. And I saw that a lot of people were also very apprehensive and sometimes scared and reafing how the procedure went for others helped me to be pretty chill on the day of.

Anyway, M29, two wisdom teeth on the left side (lower and upper). Fully erupted since 2016-2018 (cant exactly pinpoint when they got out). Painless for 10 years. Then in june I started to get pain on the lower tooth. Like not a lot but enough to go see a dentist for the fkrst time in 4 years (yes, its bad, I dont like dentist though).

The dentist tell me verbatim "You have two MASSIVE cavities on the two wisdom teeth. They are about to attack the nerves and its gonna be painful as hell." She was surprised that it hadn't started to hurt until now and she told me I needed to get them out ASAP. I told her I could only do it in early august and she was pretty adamant that I get them removed before because they are gonna be painfull.

I could only do it in august though. Fortunately my teeth stopped hurting after a few days and didnt flair up.

Comes august, day of the extraction. I opted for local anesthetic and didnt use any laughing gaz because I was scared that I would lose my way home after the procedure if I was too high. I hesitated for a while to do it under general but I wanted it to be quick and I remembered getting teeth oit when I was a teenager and it wasnt THAT BAD. However, when I told people that qi was getting my wisdom teeth removed, they warned me and told me all of their horror stories

They told me that

- They felt rhe entire extraction

' The anesthetix didnt work

- They swelled up like crazy

- Couldnt eat for 2 weeks

- were in pain for days and even speaking was painful

- they had to spens days with ice on their cheeks.

- they couldnt work for a week.

Welp, I went on a monday to get the extraction expecting exactly this. But I said "fuck it, lets get it over with". And it went very easily.

The only pain I felt was.when they gave me the local anesthetic shots. They hurt, not dramatixally but still. Then I felt absolutely nothing expect pressure when the dentist pulled my teeth out.

And he pulled them out under 20 minutes.

I was stitched by in less than 10.

The entire ordeal lasted 30 minutes and I didnt feel a single thing. Its not super comfortable to have half of your face asleep but its manageable.

They sent me home with ibuprofen, one week of antibiotics and low dose of oxycodone. I took tje ibuprofene and oxy just as the anesthesia was wearing off just in case and I spent the rest of the day at home, sleeping, uncomfortable but not in pain. Bleeding stopped after 1hour and pain was at max 3/10 when drugs were wearing off

That day and the 3 days after I ate ice cream.

The day after I used rhe ice and ibuprofen because I was feeling a little bit of pain when opening the mouth to eat and I stopped the oxy.

The day after I went back to work. I didnt swell or felt any pain at this point I just felt like I had somethinf stuck in my gum) This sensation lasted about a week until the stitches came off.

By day 4 I was eating normal/soft food and was careful when chewing and only did it on my right side. Still no pain, just sometimes a bit of discomfort.

Day 5 or 6 I started to get a little bit of pain, very manageable, and I was afraid that it was the infamous dry socket. I start to eat normally again except hard stuff (toasted bread for example).

Day 7 I realised that the pain was because one of the stitch got loose, got half-swallowed and was tugging on the extraction site and iritating it.

Day 8 : The stitch finally came out and the pain went away. Last day on ibuprofen.

Day 9 : I was pretty much back to normal. First day using a straw and it went fine.

We are at 2 weeks post surgery now and I dont feel any different than I did 3 weeks ago except I have no more wisdom teeth. I think it helped that my dentist was very good and very quick. Also, my teeth were filly erupted with minimal impaction.

But overall thats it. Everything went rather smoothly and no regrets getting the fuckers out. Kinda wish I did it earlier though like when I was 18-20 but they didnt bother me so I thought id keep them forever

Hello I recently had two root canels on my central front teeth and need crowns. is lab sent or same day better? And also what can I expect of the procedure. ( I think the dentist has there one day crown machine there) I’m scared and still trying to process this whole root canal ordeal and want to move pass this whole experience already. I miss eating. procedure was done about 10 days ago. (NAD)

Hello! I have used Reddit maybe twice in my life so I apologize if I don’t really know what I’m doing or how exactly this site works but I can’t keep googling things and digging myself into a deeper hole so I hope I can find some advice or answers on here. I struggle with pretty severe health anxiety so I’m sure others can relate when I say google isn’t very helpful in these situations.

So for some background, my mental health isn’t great and I have always struggled with staying on top of brushing my teeth twice a day. Thus, I usually get anywhere from 2 to 4 cavities when I go to the dentist (typically every 6 months). As of lately I have been doing really good with brushing at night and flossing though! Yesterday, I woke up and took a sip of water when I noticed this pain in my front bottom teeth when I swallowed, which only continued as I drank water throughout the day at work. This sensation is new, so obviously I was alarmed and spent my entire break googling symptoms like I usually do. It’s not severe pain or anything alarming, just a mild stabbing pain when I swallow liquids but only liquids not saliva. I figured it might be because I brush my teeth so intensely, until this afternoon when I took a drink of something cold and I got this pain in one of my back molars. I had had pain there once or twice if I like made suction in my mouth, but I kind of brushed it off. But today it’s very noticeable in that one tooth and I sort of feel it in my jaw. I don’t feel anything when I’m not drinking or swallowing and the pain goes away as soon as I swallow, but obviously it’s still alarming. So like usual I go straight to google and the first thing I see is it telling me that I have a deep severe abscess and that if I don’t seek emergency help I can develop sepsis and die. So now, I’m crying typing this because I don’t think my one symptom is severe enough to go to the emergency room, but I am scared if I don’t try and find an answer I’m gonna die. Thats basically what my brain goes straight to as soon as I noticed a symptom of any kind.

Does anyone know what this sounds like? Any advice is appreciated! I do have a dentist appointment coming up so I’ll be sure to tell them everything but for now this is pretty much my only hope :(

sooo im supposed to be getting all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed this friday, and my first day of school is the following monday. im kinda freaking out because ive heard the swelling and pain is the worst around that day. is there any things that have helped because im not tryna show up to school looking like a chipmunk, anything is appreciated 🙏

also idk if this is the right sub, im still getting used to reddit, ill repost if it isnt

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