I had a cavity filled on Monday and?

girl the doctor you go!!! cause i havent heard gettin an infection with an cavity filled .

If your face is at all swollen or you start to have a fever, you need to call your dentist or an emergency clinic asap. It's very important because if the swelling gets too bad it can possibly start to close your airway, which is a medical emergency.

If you're only feeling pain, it's possible that the cavity your dentist filled was very deep. If the infection went all the way to the center of the tooth (the pulp), your dentist may have tried to save you the need for a root canal by doing a pulp cap, which is where they put an antibacterial/pulp-soothing material below the filling material. Usually dentists warn you when they do this because the next few days are crucial to see if the pulp has survived the procedure - throbbing, pulsing pain or pain to cold and hot usually mean that the pulp was too infected to survive and is dying. If that's the case, a root canal or an extraction are your two choices to stop the infection from spreading into your bone/adjacent tissues and causing an abscess.

Either way, you should get back to your dentist or find an emergency dental clinic as soon as you can.

IF you have had a cavity filled before then you aren't alergic, otherwise, call the dentist ASAP and you might even want to consider the ER if you get the chills.