Steering food away from one tooth can become a habit before you’ve noticed. If you’re in St. Vital and eat around a problem spot, have it examined on McPhillips Street.
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It often starts small. A tooth feels tender once or twice, so you shift your dinner across to the other side. Weeks later, you’re still doing it and have more or less stopped noticing.
Avoiding a tooth can quiet the symptom without doing anything about its cause. Pressure discomfort may come from decay, a crack, a high filling or something else, and at Winnipeg North Dental we’d aim to find out which. Sometimes a filling is the answer, and sometimes it’s not.
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A tooth you never chew on may simply have no chance to complain.
Several different problems can make biting uncomfortable.
Comfortable chewing is one of the aims of restoring a tooth.
Your habits can tell us a lot. Noticing what you’ve been steering around makes it easier to pin down the tooth in question.
Try paying attention at your next few meals, then tell us what you noticed.
Examination and suitable diagnostic records help separate these, and treatment follows from what they show.
Where a tooth is significantly weakened or fractured, an inlay, onlay or crown may give it sturdier support than a direct filling.
Together we confirm the tooth and review the plan before anything else. Although the appointment depends on the tooth and material, most direct fillings run in this order.
Request your visitYour tooth is numbed when that’s appropriate. Next it’s isolated from saliva, so the restoration has a clean surface to work with.
Decayed or fragile structure and any old material are taken out carefully. Whatever remains healthy stays in place as much as possible.
Layers of tooth-coloured material are hardened one after another, restoring the contours of a surface that’s able to meet its opposite.
Since you’ll want to use this side again, we check how your teeth contact and refine anything high, then polish.
There’s no reason to provoke the tooth as an experiment. Simply jot down what you already avoid, and when you first started avoiding it, if you remember.
Don’t feel you have to bite hard on the sore spot to confirm anything before you arrive.
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After weeks of protecting a tooth, having someone touch it can be unsettling. Tell us which spot has been sensitive, and let us know how you’d like things explained as we proceed.
Treatment on a frozen tooth is usually felt as pressure or vibration.
Tell us when something’s uncomfortable, so we can stop and reassess.
We’ll ask you to close together slowly as we check the repair.
Learning to trust that side again
You may need some time to rely on that side without thinking about it. Instructions for your own restoration come first, and these are the general points.
Don’t try out your new filling on food just yet. You could easily catch a cheek or lip, so wait for sensation, and be wary of hot drinks.
Some pressure or temperature sensitivity may show up for a while. Gradual improvement is what you’d hope for, even if the tooth takes a little getting used to.
Should the tooth contact first, feel high or remain uncomfortable when chewing, call the clinic instead of quietly going back to your old habit.
Long-term, use that side normally unless told otherwise, clean thoroughly around it and keep the examinations recommended to you.
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Winnipeg North Dental
Unit-5 2358 Mcphillips Street, Winnipeg, MB R2V 4J6Get directions (opens in a new tab)St. Vital is in Winnipeg, and anyone who lives there can request an appointment at Winnipeg North Dental. The clinic is at Unit 5, 2358 McPhillips Street, and this section includes a directions link.
Your form submission is a request, so a time isn’t fixed until the clinic responds. Call (204) 338-3003 rather than using the form if the pain feels urgent.
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Talk with our team before your visit or learn about CDCP.
Helpful details about dental fillings in St. Vital.
Ask our teamThe larger concern is that whatever’s causing you to avoid the tooth stays unassessed. An examination can identify what’s going on, so you can decide what to do about it.
That’s not a reliable test, because you aren’t asking the tooth to do anything. Decay and cracks don’t necessarily announce themselves, so it’s sensible to have it checked.
Not at all. Point to the general area, describe what you’ve been avoiding, and the examination can help narrow down the source.
Restoring comfortable function is the goal, and your bite is checked before you go. No one can promise how a given tooth will respond, so call if chewing remains uncomfortable.
It could. A restoration that contacts too early, has fractured or has decay around it can make chewing unpleasant. Tell us about any recent dental work in that area.
Use the form and mention the side you’ve been avoiding, or phone (204) 338-3003. The assessment itself would take place at our McPhillips Street clinic.
A filling isn’t right for every tooth that hurts on biting, so here’s reading on the sturdier alternatives and regular monitoring.
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Dinner on both sides again
If you live in St. Vital, tell our McPhillips Street clinic which side you’ve been sparing. We’ll write or call back so a time can be picked.
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