Filling, then antiobiotics, now my tooth is wobbly. Why?

About a month ago I had my existing filling re-done. Job done, I thought. However, a week later the pain returned even worse and was excruciating to even think of touching it, never mind eating or talking. Went back to the dentist, he suspected an abscess and gave me antiobiotics for a week. The pain certainly stopped. However, my gum has started to get sore again and now my tooth is wobbly!!! I have to wait another week to see my dentist - has this happened to anyone before and is my tooth on its way out? I HATE TEETH!!

I'm a dentist.

It depends on how "wobbly" the tooth is. Obviously, I'd need to see it myself as well as an x-ray of it.

Abscessed teeth often involve severe inflammation of the periodontal ligament that supports the tooth in the bone. In such cases, the tooth can be slightly mobile. Since your tooth hurt when touched, this is quite possibly the case.

If the tooth is severely mobile, then there has been some bone loss around the tooth's roots caused by an infection that has been around for a long time--long enough to "eat away" at the bone around the tooth--and thus the long-term prognosis is questionable.

Your story sounds a bit fishy. Either the doctor doesn't know what he's doing, or your description of the treatment rendered is grossly incomplete and/or inaccurate.

We don't place fillings in teeth that hurt, unless the pain patients complain of is mere hot/cold sensitivity. If a tooth is hurting spontaneously, placing a permanent filling is a waste of time and doesn't address the cause (i.e. a severely inflamed tooth pulp or an abscessed tooth).

Absolutely. A filling is something we place to fill a void. Nothing more. In fact, the pulp inside a tooth often dies after the trauma of that tooth receiving a deep filling. Report It

This sounds like a case of dental malpractice to me. Call an ambulance chasing lawyer right away and sue the daylights out of the dentist. That won't help your teeth any but it will help your bank account. Go for two and one half million.

THE ABSCESS HAS CAUSED SWELLING AS THE SWELLING REDUCES THE TOOTH IS THEN LOOSE UNTIL THE GUM TIGHTENS AGAIN

The gum is bruised and, if you keep irritating it by moving the tooth, you are just making it worse. Leave it alone and try not to chew on that side or use that tooth for a couple of days and it should get better... if it doesn't, then go see your dentist again.

May be he did not do the filing properly
If it is not done properly u get recurrent infections

But one should remember that the oral cavity has thousands of bacteria and infections can occur with dental procedures

GO SEE ANOTHER DENTIST FOR A SECOND OPINION SOON.

You're falling apart sister!! Seriously, there must've been another problem at the time the filling was done, your dentist missed something on the xrays or misdiagnosed gum disease which should've been dealt with before the filling was replaced. Get rid of it, you got a mouthful of others (I assume), if it's in a prominent place get a prosthetic and send the bill to the dentist who did the filling!! Good luck.

Its sounds strange, Ive never heard of that happening and I'm a dental nurse!
The tooth might feel loose because the gum is sore and inflames, your dentist might clean round the tooth for you and with good oral hygiene hopefully the tooth will tighten up. As for the pain you might need to have root canal treatment. Good luck. In the mean time rinse your mouth with luke warm salt water.

Go back to a different dentist.