I must have been blessed with great DNA or a wonderul Dentist for the first 50 years of my life, maybe it's both. Now that I have no dental insurance, I start having problems with my teeth. Isn't that the way it always goes? You never need something you have then when you don't have it, BOOM something goes wrong. I have been traveling to Porterville to see a dentist. Suddenly I have my very first toothache. Oh The pain of it all. After half a century and never having a toothache, I didn't recognize the signs. I had always heard there is nothing worse than a toothache but I had no idea what was in store for me. I'd had a recent filling followed by sensitivity and dull aches. After two weeks of this, I was awakened by terrible pain that seemed to radiate in a large "C" pattern over my left cheek. Suddenly I felt like a knife was being stabbed upward from my lower jaw. The pain was excruciating. This was on the left side, my thoughts turned to something I had heard regarding heart attacks being felt in the jaw. I was scared and started to cry and thought about the ER. I took a Pain Pill and and Ibuprofen. I got an appointment first thing in the a.m. The Dentist said my problem was a high filling. So she filed it down. She said a high filling causes the ligaments to stretch which causes the pain. Since I had let it go, it would probably take 5-7 days to get better but everyone is different. That was about a month ago. Now it's starting again. So on Monday, I'll give the dentist a call.