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What Causes Painful Cheeks While Eating Post Crown Tooth Placement?
I recently had to have a crown placed on a lower back tooth molar #31. I returned to the dentist for an adjustment with tap test. Since then, I now experience biting the inside of my cheek when I am eating and sometimes when talking. How can this be fixed if a tap test comes out clean?
Thu, 18 Dec 2014
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It could be due to some over extension of the crown buccally causing cheek bite.
if the dentist could just reduce little bit of that crown or the opposing tooth, it might decrease the problem.
If it doesn't reduce then only possible solution is replacing the crown with another after reshaping the tooth little bit more.
Thank you.
It could be due to some over extension of the crown buccally causing cheek bite.
if the dentist could just reduce little bit of that crown or the opposing tooth, it might decrease the problem.
If it doesn't reduce then only possible solution is replacing the crown with another after reshaping the tooth little bit more.
Thank you.
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just go with the flow. As your test is correct so its not point of worries. Its foreign part for your mouth ,so it will habitual to you after some time. You just take care that cheek will not bite while chewing and talking.
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