What is most likely happening is that your tooth has a crack in it. When you bite down on it just right, it flexes the crack, which causes pain. Do you have a large filling in the tooth?
Dentists are interesting folk. Here in Utah, dentists diagnose everything under the sun. I've never seen so much ****ty work done on teeth that you could argue didn't even need any work in the first place. There is one guy in Utah that would root canal every tooth that had a large filling in it. His argument was, "well, it will probably need a root canal in the future so might as well do it now." I kid you not. In the northwest...I'm embarrassed to call myself a dentist up there, their work is so beautiful. Their **** lasts forever.
Anyways, back to the crack. You are overseas, correct? Here in the US, we'd run a tooth sleuth test and if we could find the crack and/or replicate the symptoms, we'd most likely do a crown. I do know that dentists are a lot more conservative overseas than here in the US.
Hey man, thank you for that. I can't tell if it has a filling in it, as it stands I can't see any, but I have a feeling there may have been one put in a long time ago? There certainly isn't a 'large' filling that I can see.
So if there is a crack is that a serious thing? Why didn't the x-ray pick that up or could it have missed it? What could have caused it? What is a crown? Is it as serious/expensive as getting a root canal?
Thanks again Green.
Edit: I just had another closer look and it looks like there are some white/tooth coloured filling, but very small/minimal though.
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