I had 16 fillings done a month ago and my teeth mostly all still hurt
I had more than my fair share of tooth fillings, and they usually hurt for a day or two. Later only if I expose them to heat or cold, such as drinking hot tea, biting an ice cream, or inhaling cold air with my mouth. (Also if I touch the filling with an aluminum fork.)
What you describe feels wrong. The sucrose doesn’t seem like a good explanation for the remaining pain—cavities take time, new ones don’t appear overnight. ChristianKl asked about X-rays because of two other options: either the dentist didn’t clean the tooth correctly and there is still something under the filling, or maybe your tooth has two cavities: one visible which was fixed, and one invisible (under the gum) which wasn’t. But this seems unlikely to happen under 16 teeth at the same time.
On the other hand, a tooth pain is sometimes hard to localize. I had an experience that my tooth hurt, and it felt like the whole jaw hurts; yet when one tooth was fixed, the pain was gone. (Not sure why: maybe the source of pain was too close to a common nerve for all teeth?) So, maybe you have a problem with one tooth, and it feels like all of them hurt.
This is helpful, if scary. Thanks. It does seem unlikely that all 16 teeth would still be screwed up—pain localization failures seem more likely, but Im just going off of my intuition. I’m going back to the same guy who did all of my fillings ASAP to get things checked out again. (I wonder, if some number of my teeth weren’t cleaned correctly, does that mean it’s ok for me to keep seeing that dentist?)
I had more than my fair share of tooth fillings, and they usually hurt for a day or two. Later only if I expose them to heat or cold, such as drinking hot tea, biting an ice cream, or inhaling cold air with my mouth. (Also if I touch the filling with an aluminum fork.)
What you describe feels wrong. The sucrose doesn’t seem like a good explanation for the remaining pain—cavities take time, new ones don’t appear overnight. ChristianKl asked about X-rays because of two other options: either the dentist didn’t clean the tooth correctly and there is still something under the filling, or maybe your tooth has two cavities: one visible which was fixed, and one invisible (under the gum) which wasn’t. But this seems unlikely to happen under 16 teeth at the same time.
On the other hand, a tooth pain is sometimes hard to localize. I had an experience that my tooth hurt, and it felt like the whole jaw hurts; yet when one tooth was fixed, the pain was gone. (Not sure why: maybe the source of pain was too close to a common nerve for all teeth?) So, maybe you have a problem with one tooth, and it feels like all of them hurt.
This is helpful, if scary. Thanks. It does seem unlikely that all 16 teeth would still be screwed up—pain localization failures seem more likely, but Im just going off of my intuition. I’m going back to the same guy who did all of my fillings ASAP to get things checked out again. (I wonder, if some number of my teeth weren’t cleaned correctly, does that mean it’s ok for me to keep seeing that dentist?)