{"id":6671,"date":"2014-03-16T22:40:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T05:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2014-03-16T22:40:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T05:40:17","slug":"fillings-can-hurt-for-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/16\/fillings-can-hurt-for-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Fillings Can Hurt For A Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I got a resin filling for a cavity a few years ago, it hurt for 2 weeks after. I had the sensation that the filling was &#8220;too tight&#8221;. The dentist said he hadn&#8217;t ever heard of a filling hurting afterward and that I should schedule another visit. But before I could visit the pain faded.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Megan experienced the same thing, but it hurt quite a lot. The dentist told her to take a lot of ibuprofen and call in a week. The pain has been slowly subsiding.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here to tell you that resin fillings sometimes ache something awful when you first get them. Take some ibuprofen and don&#8217;t worry too much about it unless the pain is steady for a week.<\/p>\n<p>If the pain becomes very specific and sharp, as though you know exactly what tooth is causing the pain, you might need a root canal instead of just having filling pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got a resin filling for a cavity a few years ago, it hurt for 2 weeks after. I had the sensation that the filling was &#8220;too tight&#8221;. The dentist said he hadn&#8217;t ever heard of a filling hurting afterward and that I should schedule another visit. But before I could visit the pain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}