What should I pay attention to after having my teeth filled

Anyway, if your teeth are eroded by bacteria, they will rot. At this time, you need to go to the hospital for filling or replacement. Filling a tooth requires cutting off the damaged part of the tooth and then filling it again. There is a period of recovery after the filling. During this period, there are many things to pay attention to, such as not biting hard objects. Let’s take a look at what you need to pay attention to after having a tooth filled.

For the restored teeth, timely and necessary protection should be given, and the following matters should be noted:

1. Follow the doctor's advice and do not chew food or hard objects with the newly filled teeth. After a tooth is filled, you should generally chew food on the affected side on the 2nd or 3rd day to prevent the tooth from breaking and the filling from falling off.

2. If you experience slight pain after filling a tooth, you can observe yourself first. Some slight discomfort and pain may disappear on their own. If the pain does not ease but worsens, or if biting pain, throbbing pain, pain from hot or cold stimulation, or spontaneous pain at night occurs, you should go to the hospital for follow-up examination and treatment in time to find out the cause and eliminate the pain.

3. For teeth with large areas of severe caries, tooth fractures are prone to occur during chewing due to insufficient resistance of the tooth itself after restoration. Therefore, after filling these teeth, the affected teeth should be protected with shell crowns in time according to the doctor's advice to prevent the crowns from breaking.

4. Go for follow-up consultation promptly at the time agreed upon by the doctor.

(1) Do not use a rough toothbrush to brush the surface of the restoration within one week, because the degree of light curing of the resin is only 50%, which can reach 90% within 24 hours and 100% after 7 days.

(2) Do not bite hard objects with the restoration, drink less strong tea, smoke less, and avoid using metal.

1. Follow your doctor's advice and do not chew food or hard objects with your newly filled teeth. After a tooth is filled, you should generally chew food on the affected side on the 2nd or 3rd day to prevent the tooth from breaking and the filling from falling off.

2. If you experience slight pain after a tooth filling, you can observe yourself first. Some slight discomfort and pain may disappear on their own. If the pain does not ease but worsens, or if biting pain, throbbing pain, pain from hot or cold stimulation, or spontaneous pain at night occurs, you should go to the hospital for follow-up examination and treatment in time to find out the cause and eliminate the pain.

3. For teeth with large areas of defects that are severely damaged by caries, fractures are prone to occur during chewing due to insufficient resistance of the tooth itself after restoration. Therefore, after filling these teeth, shell crowns should be placed on the affected teeth in time according to the doctor's advice to prevent fractures.

4. Follow up with your doctor at the time agreed upon by your doctor.

1 Generally speaking, it is best not to eat with the newly filled teeth within two hours after the filling, because most filling materials need 24 hours to fully cure.

2 If you feel pain when eating cold or hot food after tooth filling, you should pay attention to observation. If the pain is not severe and the degree of pain has been significantly reduced, you can leave it untreated. If the pain persists, gradually worsens and cannot be relieved, it is likely that pulpitis or apical periodontitis has occurred, and you need to go to the hospital for treatment in time.

3 If periodontal pain occurs after a tooth filling, for example, a dull pain when biting but no pain when not biting, and it has nothing to do with eating hot or cold foods, this may be due to the high material used in the filling, early contact with the teeth causing periodontal trauma, or tooth inflammation caused by certain drugs. If persistent dull pain occurs after a tooth filling, the pain is clearly located, worsens when biting, and has nothing to do with eating hot or cold foods, this may be because the adjacent surfaces of the filling material have not been properly trimmed, and the accumulation of food debris has caused gingivitis.