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Medical Forum / General / Dentistry / February 2005Problems with bite after filling adjustment
Hi, I recently had two fillings adjusted by the dentist, both molars on each upper side of the mouth. They were adjusted because of soreness in both areas, but the fillings were put in about 9 months ago. Since the adjustment(2 weeks) my bite has felt off and I feel like I'm hitting lower now on my front teeth, as well hitting lower on one side of molars over the other. This has made my bite very uncomfortable and I feel like I'm putting extra stress on my front teeth. The only thing I can think of is now one of the fillings is too low and is causing my bite to be lower, is that possible? If so, how does something like this get resolved? Does the bite eventually "adjust" and no harm done.. Ideally, I'd like for the dentist to raise the filling back up so that my bite can return to the way it was, is it possible to add back to an existing filling? I've had fillings and adjustments before and never had this issue, its very strange... Thanks in advance for any comments. Wittek > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Wittek If the fillings were previously too high, then these teeth will have taken a disproportionate amount of chewing stress (and the other teeth correspondingly less). This certainly could have accounted for soreness in those teeth. Has the soreness improved? Now of course the bite has changed. Under ordinary circumstances if you have a full complement of teeth this shouldn't put an abnormal amount of chewing forces on your front teeth. However, people have ways of accomodating to bite discrepencies such as you apparently had from your two fillings that were hyper-occluding. As a result, your bite may in fact put an abnormal amount of pressure on one or another tooth. The answer is not to make the two fillings high again. You should check with your dentist to make sure you aren't putting too much force on any teeth. Minor bite adjustments may be necessary. It may be necessary to do this in more than one visit, as any adjustments may change the bite slightly, and it will take a while for the muscles to adjust. Steve  SignatureMark & Steven Bornfeld DDS http://www.dentaltwins.com Brooklyn, NY 718-258-5001 Thank you for the reply. Yes, it has helped atleast one of the teeth a good amount and the other one has been so so. You mentioned hyper-occluding, but I never felt like my bite was high prior to the adjustment. I trust the dentist to make the right decisions, I just worry that too much may have been taken off one of the fillings and so its caused a noticable change in my bite, with one side hitting lower than the other. I'd hate for that side to be hitting lower than it was prior to the filling being done, and have to adjust multiple other teeth as a result. Thats why I was wondering about raising the filling back up... Anyways, I'll see if I adjust to it. You said it takes a while for the muscles to adjust, so since its only been two weeks, I'll give it a little more time. Otherwise I'll see what the dentist can do. Thanks. Wittek > Anyways, I'll see if I adjust to it. You said it takes a while for the > muscles to adjust, so since its only been two weeks, I'll give it a > little more time. Otherwise I'll see what the dentist can do. Thanks. > > Wittek Try biting down on some wet Kleenex. Use a wad thick enough to keep the opposite teeth from touching. Bite down hard, and slowly let up the pressure. Do you feel pain in the tooth that is so so? If so, you might have a cracked tooth there. HTH SP SignatureNot a real Addy, yet >> Anyways, I'll see if I adjust to it. You said it takes a while for the >> muscles to adjust, so since its only been two weeks, I'll give it a [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >Try biting down on some wet Kleenex. Use a wad thick enough to keep the >opposite teeth from touching. God. I thought I slipped into alt.weight.watchers.anonymous by mistake. Joel > Bite down hard, and slowly let up the >pressure. Do you feel pain in the tooth that is so so? If so, you might >have a cracked tooth there. >HTH >SP >>> Anyways, I'll see if I adjust to it. You said it takes a while for the >>> muscles to adjust, so since its only been two weeks, I'll give it a [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >>HTH >>SP How do you keep Kleenex dry in the mouth? carabelli > >> Bite down hard, and slowly let up the > >>pressure. Do you feel pain in the tooth that is so so? If so, you might [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > carabelli You don't... You use a wad so it stays 'chewable' when wet. This test is normally done with wet cotton rolls. Pain on release of biting force indicates tooth fracture. This dude probably doesn't have cotton rolls in his medicine cabinet; for that matter, neither do _I_. If I suspected one of my own teeth to be fractured, that is how I would test it at home. 'scuse me; I have to go bite the heads of some rats.... SP SignatureNot a real Addy, yet >> >> Bite down hard, and slowly let up the >> >>pressure. Do you feel pain in the tooth that is so so? If so, you might [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >'scuse me; I have to go bite the heads of some rats.... >SP Do you have cotton balls ? It is a condition related to beer nuts. -- W_B Take out the G'RBAGE wubbabubbazG@RBAGEyahoo.com W_B <no_one@nowhere.net> wrote after SP's blathering: > > This dude probably doesn't have cotton rolls > >in his medicine cabinet; for that matter, neither do _I_. If I suspected [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Take out the G'RBAGE > wubbabubbazG@RBAGEyahoo.com Non, but I have BASEballs, which if handled incorrectly may just result in BLUEballs, 'specially if your a catcher... SP SignatureNot a real Addy, yet >W_B <no_one@nowhere.net> wrote after SP's blathering: > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >in BLUEballs, 'specially if your a catcher... >SP Good, as long as it hasn't progressed to basket balls you should be fine. -- W_B Take out the G'RBAGE wubbabubbazG@RBAGEyahoo.com > >> Do you have cotton balls ? > >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Good, as long as it hasn't progressed to basket balls you should be fine. > -- You laugh.... it has happened, 'specially to Martial Arts proponents... goalies (hockey and soccer), baseball catchers, BANG!!!! .... OooowwwwwwW... ----> fold up ... SP SignatureNot a real Addy, yet >>> Bite down hard, and slowly let up the >>>pressure. Do you feel pain in the tooth that is so so? If so, you might [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >carabelli Portable saliva ejector. |
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