r/Toothfully

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??

I’m wondering if anybody can give me some advice if they’ve ever gone through this seeking legal advice

I got braces four months ago. The plan from orthodontist was to extract three adult teeth one on the top left one on the top right and one on the bottom in the front row. My current Dentist of the last four years does not remove teeth. He referred me to another Dentist in the area. I went in August 12, 2026. They ended up only removing the top left tooth forgot about the top right and removed a healthy tooth instead of the unhealthy tooth in my front row next to it. Prior to this appointment, my orthodontist sent over paperwork stating exactly which teeth needed to be removed and why. I only noticed that it was the wrong tooth once I got into my car and I looked into the mirror. I started crying and called the orthodontist. I had an appointment the next day. My orthodontist said an all 23 years of him in the practice, he has never seen this happen.

My orthodontist cannot use the unhealthy tooth and it does have to be extracted I am now looking at putting an input there in the future is unknown for my smile. I am a 24-year-old woman, and this affects my overall appearance this has taken a toll on my mental health.

I also want to add in the Dentist herself sent paperwork to my orthodontist stating that she removed the correct teeth

I don’t want to badmouth the Dentist. I simply just need opinions and advice.

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.

My husband just got a root canal. He needs the build up and crown, but our insurance will only cover about $100 more of work. Paying $1200 out of pocket is out of our budget right now so I’m trying to find a way to make this work so his root canal doesn’t fail.

He is starting a new job (we are moving states) and will have access to new dental insurance in 10-11 weeks that will reset the maximum.

Our current dentist said he understands the insurance and cost issue. He said we could do the build up only (less than 3 weeks after the root canal) and then wait a little bit on the crown. He wouldn’t give a timeline for how long to wait between build up and crown… would waiting 10-11 weeks be feasible?

Additional details:
My husband is 24 and has never had dental insurance until now.
This is for a back molar. He got a filling a few years ago that fell out about one year ago. He essentially avoided using that side of his mouth for a year. Then the tooth chipped and that prompted me to help him figure out how to use his dental insurance and get a root canal.
We have a new baby and are about to move across the country so there’s a lot going on and I’m trying to find the best financial options that don’t put his health at risk.

Had a cracked tooth, developed Irreversible Pulpit (I think that’s what it’s called) the pain literally had me considering suicide I live in the UK and am a NHS patient I haven’t had my own dentist for years but the pain was the worst toothache I’ve ever had every single hour of every day most nights not sleeping only freezing cold water giving me relief, almost drowned myself after drinking 8 litres of water in a day, had sever cramps in my stomach where I had damaged my bladder or put it under tremendous stress. The tooth pain almost induced a psychosis in me. I finally had it removed 62 hours ago. It was a hour and 15 min procedure with only local anaesthetic not sedation, the dentist was great but slightly older and she was also quite frail and small so getting my tooth out was a serious struggle for her. She had to pull, attempt to twist it, push the metal screwdriver thing into the tooth to crack it, she tried wiggling it with the grippers then when that didn’t work she got the drill and stated just manually drilling into the tooth to break it apart and split it in half, when she couldn’t do that any longer she then drilled or sawed my jawbone away to loosen the tooth, this was about 45 mins in 💀 she was ready to give up and send me to the hospital there and then but I assured her I was so numb I didn’t really feel a thing so begged her to continue. After another 30 mins of drilling, pulling, wiggling, bone sawing and putting pressure on the tooth it finally came out. I almost fainted getting out of the chair my body was in complete shock I was shaking uncontrollably but wasn’t in pain but I think my immune system was destroyed due to the shock horror of what was happening. The dentist herself was shocked I sat through it and was really worried about me but I have no more suicide inducing pain so I’m happy I bit the bullet but I feel significantly traumatised I can’t stop thinking and talking about it I cried and had a breakdown a hour afterwards. The reason my tooth didn’t want to come out is because I’m mixed race Black/White and like the dentist said my bones are a lot stronger so my jaw didn’t want to let go of the tooth but like I said I’m significantly traumatised and wondered if anyone else on here can share their trauma and if there was any after care/support for this kinda thing

okay so the positives that happened is that my teeth are no longer over crowded, and i have a normal BITE now (No extreme overbite/underbite). But now I have TMJ (had it for a while but for some reason my dentists have never addressed it ???), and my top jaw is at a tilt and not aligning with the middle of my nose, which causes my bottom jaw to follow that too. So now I have an extremely uneven face and TMJ. Planning to bring this up to my dentist (who is going to remove my braces next appointment, but no way i feel ready for that yet considering my situation)

what should I do? advice pelase?

Long post!!!!! I am sorry in advance!

I got three root canals done in about a month. That was about a month ago that the last one was done. I was getting a root canal once a week for about a month. I got them temporary crown and then I just got the permanent crowns on about a week ago. I was wearing the temporary for about a month. I had a root canal done first on the lower right side second on the upper right side and third on the upper left side. I wasn't chewing on the right side at all but then when I got the left side done I had to. Once I did that I noticed some sensitivity on the right side.

I went back to the endodontist because the sensitivity was on the lower right side in the tooth behind the one I had the root canal on. He gave me a steroid pack and told me my cold response when he tested it was not strong enough for them to want to give me another root canal. I was having ear pain and tingling in my right ear and that has gone away. i've had periods where it isn't really too bad and then periods were the response is pretty strong. I had a cold response on the upper right side in the tooth behind the root canal there as well occasionally. I mentioned it when I got the permanent crowns on and she said to give it time and then I could take a year for the root canals to heal. I told her it was the tooth behind that and she said to still give a time and then that tooth had a shallow filling in it so she just wanted to give it time. Now I am getting cold and heat sensitivity, it was brief but now it’s lasting longer. I am getting ear and cheek pain again. What does this mean? Am I headed for another root canal?

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

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 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 :(

How did it go for you? I’m on day 3/night 3 and the top of my mouth hurts so bad

Does anyone else get this sensation or is it just me (itll just be me and im opening myself up for ridicule and abuse).

Im just morbidly waiting for the day the needles and drills are coming. No amount of pointless hygiene appointments, pats on the back saying your brushing is good, nothing will stop those needles and drills that will have to come one day.

All just feels so sad to the point where i question why i even go anymore. All just seems one stress inducing misery.

Do aerated drinks destroy your tooth?

I drink diet coke on regular basis and I started to realise I am having tooth aches. Is it due to aerated drinks