With all due respect to those in the dental field, I believe that my dentist let me suffer needlessly. I went in for some fillings everything seemed to go well, but when I went home it felll right out. Shortly after the numbing wore off I was in a kind of pain I've never felt before even when I had my wisdom teeth extracted. The pain was so severe that I called their emergency line and no one called me back. WEll after spending the weekend in pain and without antibiotics I finally got ahold of the office on Monday. They gave me the latest appoiuntment in the day even though I told them my level of pain was 10 (and I have a son so I know what 10 is). Upon walking in the room the dentist nonchalantly jams a pick into the black hole in my tooth. I screamed in pain yet he told me there was no decay and the tooth was normal. Um... I said its completely turning black and he replied that there was not a problem and tha t it was just my mouth getting used to the filling. He told me there was no infection but turned around and gave me penicillainI then repilied to him about the gaping black hole in the tooth he reassured me that there was no hole that it just felt that way to my tongue,and I forgot to mention that the filling was tooth colored so I know its gone. Ive never been this sick from a tooth before and it is my very back upper left molar which made my throat swell a bit causing some gagging and nausea. Th swelling in my throat and gum has gone down but the tooth is almost totally black now. I went back in yesterday and he gave me the optionof yanking it or a root canal. The pain is worse at night but radiates down my neck and upinto my face and skull during the day and now I have begun getting chest pain. I am young so chest pain is strange and rare in someone my age. So I guess my question is can this suidden mouth infection cause me chest pain? I know it sounds crazy but please undrstand that this tooth has caused me to be very very ill even causing innflamation in my neck face and throat. None of these things have ever happened before with similar or more extensive procedures I've had. Ive also never had a tooth turn black in about a weeks time. So could all of this possibly lead to chest pain?

It's a known fact that infected, impacted teeth left to rot can cause a heart attack, but I don't think it would happen this soon. I can't understand the dentist's attitude, if you have pain, you have pain, that's all there is to it. If I were you I would get another appointment with another dentist and get this settled.

Sometimes a filling will fall out if the dentist didn't prep the tooth correctly. If the cavity was deep enough, he may have aggravated the nerve enough that you are having problems. See another dentist. I'd also see a doctor.

The following sites provide advice which might prove useful.

Chest Pain, Acute -- familydoctor.org (http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/tools/symptom/523.html)

Chest Pain, Chronic -- familydoctor.org (http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/tools/symptom/524.html)