Dental query - temporary filling feels too big?

[BlondeHeadOn]

I have just been a big brave girl and gone to the dentist!
:j
(You have no idea how scary that was, as it was a new dentist...)

He has put a temporary 'dressing' on my tooth until I can get in to have a crown fitted. It is a top right back molar, if that's the right terminology.

Now this has only been done late this afternoon, but it feels like I have a brick in my mouth at the moment. (This was done without anaesthetic by the way, as there was still enough filling left to mean that I couldn't feel anything, so it's not that wearing off.) I have been told to wait a couple of hours before trying to chew on that side of my mouth.

I am concerned that I can't close my teeth enough to be able to chew on my left side, which is my 'preferred chewing side' usually. I don't want to end up having to chew all the time on my right side as I don't want to stress this temporary dressing. The bite feels all wrong, although that may be just because I have become used to the tooth with a large chunk of filling missing.

Incidentally I think that this was my fault not the dentists, as he asked me to bite down a couple of time to get the sizing but because I have been being so careful of that tooth I don't think I bit down far enough.

Am I worrying about this unnecessarily? Will the temporary filling wear down a bit as I use it? It has to last until just after Christmas, so I don't want to be sucking my turkey up through a straw...

:D

[tirednewdad]

Go back to your dentist and have it adjusted- its a 2 minute job.

Otherwise you might develope pain around the gums on the tooth.- what happens is that, as it becomes the first tooth you hit, you will put more pressure on it when biting. This can overtime bruise the ligiments holding the tooth in place and therefore feel a bit sore to bite on.

I would hazzard a guess- (and its only a guess) that that tooth has had the nerve removed at some point (Rootcannal treatment?_ which is why you didn't need to be numbed up.

[BlondeHeadOn]

Thanks TND - I wrote you a reply last night, but it seems to have gone missing! That has set my mind at rest though - I will ring the dentist this morning and arrange to go back and have it adjusted.

I haven't had any root canal treatment or similar, and the nerve is very much still there. But the filling that came out was the width of the tooth, and it sort of sheared off across halfway (think of a large flat piece of filling shaped like a cowpat - sorry, but that's the best way I can think of describing it!) So there was still the rest of the filling next to and covering pretty much all of the tooth and the nerve was not exposed. Only the edges had the tooth showing. This is presumably why it didn't hurt.

Believe me I will need a lot of anaesthetic when I have the crown fitted!

Thanks again for your very useful and speedy response.

:D