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What Are the Causes of Toothache?

Abstract: Toothache refers to the pain of teeth caused by various reasons, it is one of the common symptoms of oral disease, it often shows the behavior of swollen gums, hot and cold stimulation, cheek swelling pain, etc.

Toothache seriously interferes with the normal life of people, when a toothache happened, people cannot stand the pain. What are the causes of toothache? Ismile shanghai dental told us the following dental disease causing a toothache.

Acute pulpitis

It often happens on the caries deeper patients. The tooth nerve has hyperaemia and inflammation when the virus pass through the tooth cavity into the dental pulp cavity. Toothache is often spontaneous, the pain become aggravating at night and more serious when the tooth suffer hot and cold stimulation. Pain can be spread to the face, temporal and ear. The patients with suppurative pulpitis feel serious pain when suffering the thermal stimulus, instead, the cold stimulation reduce or disappear the pain.

Acute tip periarthritis

It is caused by the development or trauma of acute pulpitis. The disease tooth has the persistent pain and float feeling, and making the patient can't chew food. The patient can pointed out the dental disease correctly when tapping the disease tooth, which cause the pain. At the same time there is no motivational pain, because the disease tooth nerve has necrosed .

Acute periodontitis

The nature of the toothache is similar to the acute inflammation around the root tip. The disease tooth not only appears chew pain and float sense, but also has formed periodontal pocket and become loose. The gum tissue can appear swelling and bleeding repeatedly. It is caused by dental plaque, tartar, embedded food , the bad repair body and bite wounds.

Periodontal abscess

Periodontal tissue inflammation will become purulent inflammation after further development, when abscesses formed, the pain become more serious, After abscesses formed, the local tooth appear the feeling of volatility. It can reduce or relieve the pain significantly after periodontal abscess forming.

Tooth hypersensitivity

It is caused by the gingival recession, dentin exposure of tooth neck and tooth defect. At this time, the stimulation such as cold, hot, sweet and sour would cause a pain, but after the stimulation stopping, the pain would disappear.

Food embedded pain

It causes toothache when the clearance between the teeth is embedded with the food, which is called the food embedded pain.

Dry chamfer disease

It appears when tooth extracted after more than 2-4 days, which can cause spontaneous persistent severe pain. The wound clot is founded to form badly during inspection of tooth extraction, and have a bad smell.

The others

The disease such as gums, jaw tumors and trigeminal neuralgia, etc can also cause the ipsilateral teeth pain in corresponding area.

In a word, toothache is mostly caused by gingivitis, periodontal disease, tooth decay or cracked tooth pulp which leading to tooth nerve infection. Toothache belongs to external reaction of teeth disease, it is possible that teeth caries, dental pulp, or gingiva around the canine are infected, premolar fracture can also cause a toothache, sometimes it is only because the food crumbs stuck in the teeth that discomfort the tooth. In addition, a toothache also can be caused by sinusitis.

Plublish Date: 2013-11-25

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