What can you do if the dentist sanded down your teeth on one side and now your b!


Question: It all started with a filling on a molar in the right side of my mouth. It hurt after a few days and I went back to the dentist, who told me that he just needed to sand it down a bit because I was biting on it wrong. He sanded it down - well, then nothing felt normal on the right side of my mouth...other teeth were hitting in weird ways. So he sanded down some other areas. And then I was only able to bit on my right incisors! So he sanded those down. Now, the fit feels almost normal, BUT, that entire side feels too low! If I bite down, only the left side hits, until I bite harder, and a screaming pain shoots into my right ear as my right teeth take a little longer to close than my left teeth do, like it's torquing my jaw joint. I never had jaw pain before! So, the question is: what kind of specialist do I see who can truly help? Can they put something on my right side to make it higher again? Is my jaw at risk of permanent damage? There is a huge bruise on my lower jawbone.


Answers: It all started with a filling on a molar in the right side of my mouth. It hurt after a few days and I went back to the dentist, who told me that he just needed to sand it down a bit because I was biting on it wrong. He sanded it down - well, then nothing felt normal on the right side of my mouth...other teeth were hitting in weird ways. So he sanded down some other areas. And then I was only able to bit on my right incisors! So he sanded those down. Now, the fit feels almost normal, BUT, that entire side feels too low! If I bite down, only the left side hits, until I bite harder, and a screaming pain shoots into my right ear as my right teeth take a little longer to close than my left teeth do, like it's torquing my jaw joint. I never had jaw pain before! So, the question is: what kind of specialist do I see who can truly help? Can they put something on my right side to make it higher again? Is my jaw at risk of permanent damage? There is a huge bruise on my lower jawbone.

I would go to a different dentist. I don't think they are supposed to "sand" your teeth, only the filling.

You need a doctor trained in functional occlusion.
Before any more indiscriminate "sanding" of your teeth, a good specialist must analize your bite and determine what needs to be done to restore it. You may need to rebuild some of the areas that were reduced.
Your chewing muscles, like every other mucle in your body, were designed to work at a specific lenght. Your teeth help maintain that optimal physiological length. When you loose dental material you may disrupt the chewing system.

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Now you have problems in your Occlusion and it is all your dentist`s fault ... first never go to that dentist again ... second you have to visit a dentist who knows how to rapair your occlusion and i suggest a specialist in Fixed Prosthodontics as i know they have better understanding of human occlusion than any other dentists ...

it is not possible to add sth to your right side to fix the problem ...one way is to grind the other side too slightly and fix the occlusion ...

there are a couple of things you should do

A. Talk to a specialist about your bite and a lawyer about legal representation and what you can do.

B. Sue this idiot (they are suppossed to be doctors. they better F-- know what they are doing. Think of how much someone would pay w/o insurance. It's alot, easliy hundreds of dollars to get this a--hole to screw up your teeth.

Good luck. you should not have to put up with that. He could easily have messed up your teeth and jaw.

Don't quit until you get answers!! that is just not right at all.





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