Vertigo after Dental Work

[jlapeze]

Pardon me if this topic has been covered before.  I had a root canal 2 weeks ago, and then 3 teeth prepped for crowns one week later (last Thursday).  

Since then I have been having bouts of vertigo.  Have others experienced this?  If so, would you please share?  

My teeth feel fine, no pain, no swelling.  I am due to go back next Thursday to have 3 permanent crowns installed.

[sarina798]

First excuse of my English.
I went to the dentist after feeling a little pain after drinking hot or cold.
before I said "jack Robinson" he started to make a root work.
In the middle he said that now I will feel a vibration during the drilling.
And I feel it. The next day in the morning when I wake up I felt an awful dizziness and stay laying in bed for 3 days hardly went to the toilet.
Stay in one position and did not move. cant hear TV or listening to the radio. After 3 days without eating only drinking it began to be a little better. Only after 2 and half years I can exchange position and sleep on the left side. All this years I slept only on the right side, because if I try immediately feel dizziness.
After asking a lot of doctors trough the internet, everybody said never hear of vertigo after dental work (are they crazy or what?) somebody told me that when they drill on low speed it cause viberation in the head. Thats the reason that nobody is telling.

[jennyrs001]

It is not likely that dental work should cause vertigo. But if you are experiencing vertigo after dental work it could be because of inflammation, too much dental work at once or nerve damage. This will get fine once you are healed.

[bes206]

I too have dizziness after lower jaw dental work.  I think that if you get enough drug in the injections to numb your jaw it also numbs your ear and causes dizziness.  The ear nerves just can't give you the feedback to feel stable or something, (but what do I know?).  I suspect this is fairly common and I don't understand why Dentists don't discuss it.  It is a creepy feeling and I need to have someone drive me home after a lower filling.  It goes away after a few days.  

[slak]

I had a sinus infection and stupidly a filling done as I was getting over it with antibiotics. The tooth was very painful after the filling and a few days later I woke up with severe vertigo, literally dropped to the floor. After that I was dizzy on and off for over a month. The doctor kept saying it was a virus, benign positional vertigo, etc... gave me stemetil and serc but it didn't go away. I kept bringing up the fact that it could be related to the dental work but was told three times to wait it out and try a physio for some manoeuvres to help the inner ear get back to normal. I still felt pain in my tooth and also in the ear near the tooth. Finally I had enough and went back to the dentist. They checked, said nothing wrong. Two weeks later I went back AGAIN and said there was definitely something wrong with the tooth. (And I thought it was too coincidental that the top right molar and my right ear were both in pain). He ended up drilling the filling out (it was a white one) and said the tooth did have a small fracture. I asked him to fill it with a metal one this time as I heard they are longer lasting and don't react so much to weather. From the day he replaced the filling, my vertigo (touch wood!) has disappeared. Completely. I haven't had one dizzy-free day in almost two months by that point and then it was gone. So I think you have to go with your gut and be pushy. Doctors are very quick to go with the average and say 'virus', 'give it time', 'here's some drugs that will mask it and not cure it'.

[manguiat]

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[rhferg]

I had a couple of fillings done by a new dentist 4 weeks ago and having been getting bouts of mild vertigo ever since.
I have done a bit online research and find that many people have been reporting this syndrome over a long period, but it is not recognised by the dental or medical professions.  Requests for explanations are met with generalisations about the common causes of vertigo (ie anything other than dental treatment!).
The closest I got to an explanation was a paper about the tiny electrical currents generated by composite fillings in the mouth, which can cause this and many other side effects, according to the researcher.
Replacing the offending fillings might resolve the issue, but if your dentist doesn't realise there is a problem, he is just as likely to make it worse.
So no good news, I'm afraid.

[Tanya75]

I had a filling last October (2012) and almost a year later, I am still getting dizzy spells! I have never experienced anything like this before!! I have had everything tested in the past year EXCEPT my filling! Although I have been to the denist 2 more times during the last year I never really gave it much thought untill now! I seen two different ENT doctors, was a client at the dizziness clinic, seen my family doctor many times, tried different medications, was even at the out patients at the hospital many times. However, now I see that other people are experiencing the same type of thing AFTER dental work, my next step is calling the dentist this afternoon!!