What should I do if my child has toothache after a filling?

Children may experience various abnormalities during the teeth growth process, such as pain when teeth grow, or teeth grow crooked, etc. In addition, in life, children often knock out their teeth due to accidental falls, and their teeth become uneven. At this time, they need to go to the hospital to fill the teeth. Toothache is inevitable after the filling. At this time, the following methods can be used to help solve the problem.

What should I do if my child has toothache after a filling?

After going to the hospital for treatment of dental disease, toothache sometimes occurs again. This may be caused by the following situations:

1. Due to treatment needs, the dental pulp is devitalized (commonly known as killing the nerves). Toothaches may occur on the day or the next day after the devitalization drug is applied due to the effect of the drug, but the pain will not be severe and will not last for a long time.

2. Short-term hot or cold stimulation pain may occur during the process of preparing the cavity for the filling or due to the stimulation of the pulp by disinfectants. Such situations do not require special treatment and generally recover on their own after 1-2 days.

3. The caries cavity is deep and the padding material used is too thin to block the hot and cold stimulation conducted by the silver-mercury alloy, resulting in symptoms of hot and cold stimulation pain. This requires thickening the base material before filling.

The long-term cause of pain is often secondary caries complicated by pulpitis. Pulp soothing or other endodontic treatment should be performed depending on the specific situation. If you have experienced bite pain recently, it is probably because the filling material is too high, causing premature contact when biting. After a few days of adjustment, you will return to normal.

In short, except for temporary toothaches (such as pulp devitalization) that the doctor clearly tells the patient may occur, all other toothaches that occur after tooth filling should be treated in the hospital in order to find out the cause and deal with it in time.

The materials used for filling teeth in many children are not the same. There are many types of filling materials, such as silver-mercury alloy, composite resin, glass ionomer cement, glass ionomer resin, stainless steel artificial crown, zinc oxide clove oil cement, zinc phosphate cement, polycarboxylate cement, etc. However, different people have different sensitivities to dental filling materials, and allergies do exist. Children may experience pain after having a filling, which may be caused by an allergy to the filling material.

At the same time, it is also possible that the child's tooth cavity is too deep and too close to the nerve. The doctor stimulated the nerves in the mouth during the drilling process, so there will be pain after the tooth is filled. However, this situation does not persist for a long time. Under normal circumstances, it will be relieved within a few days after the filling. When it is confirmed to be this situation, parents do not need to worry too much and just pay more attention to the patient's diet.

It is also possible that the doctor did not completely remove the carious parts of the child's body during the treatment. This situation can be said to be the worst case scenario. The patient needs to go to the hospital for re-examination. If the tooth is not removed completely, the patient will need to re-fill the tooth. After all, this situation is rare.