Got a couple of cavities filled earlier today. It hurts like

It's normal. The nerves inside your teeth are still adjusting to the new material. If your fillings are amalgam or gold alloy, they also conduct heat/cold much faster than dentin, so try to avoid too hot or cold food.

The pain should start to slowly decrease after a couple of days and diminishes totally after 1-3 weeks of operation. Take some paracetamol meanwhile. When I had a cavity filled, the pain became tolerable after 4 days, and after 2 weeks everything seemed quite normal.

If the pain is hellish and unbearable after a week, the fillings are leaky, wrong size, poorly attached, or there's still caries underneath. If this becomes the case, get a dentistry appointment asap.

>>18097809
Thank you! Feeling much less worried.
I never had a cavity before, I wasn't expecting it to hurt this much after.
I'll take some paracetamol and rest.

>>18097809
>>18097818
The fucking paracetamol meme. OP you should only take it if the pain is literally unbearable. And I mean literally madening. Paracetamol just shits all over your liver.