Tooth sensitivity?!
Question: i have horrible sensitivity, i cant eat icecream or drink hot drinks without mild to moderate pain, how can i reduce my horrible tooth sensitivity?
Answers: i have horrible sensitivity, i cant eat icecream or drink hot drinks without mild to moderate pain, how can i reduce my horrible tooth sensitivity?
I recommend starting with Sensodyne Toothpaste (over the counter). Sensodyne will take 2-6 months of use before you will feel the results. You can seek care from your dentist: ask for a desensitizing agent with customized delivery trays...this will remove sensitivity within days of using this protocol. The best treatment includes the use of a Er:Cr:YAG Laser (Waterlase MD). Or...you can always come see me in Powell, Ohio. www.infinitesmiles.com
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Are all of your teeth sensitive? My bottom-front teeth are, I just learn to avoid using those teeth to eat. If it's all of your teeth that are hurting, you can try saltpetre, which can be found in certain toothpastes and possibly as a supplement.
I use a toothpaste for sensitive teeth. This has worked wonders for me. Its a little more expensive but it has changed my life (for foods anyway). Look for a toothpaste with the ingredients Potassium Nitrate and Sodium Monofluorphosphate.
Other than that try eating foods without extremes in temperature.
Chris- Registered Nurse
Sensitivity to hot foods in particular may be an indication of a fractured tooth. Please see a dentist to determine what is happening with the tooth/teeth in question.
use oral B tooth paste (oral -B sensitive with fluoride )its white a tupe with blue writing on it not the pink ones.brush morning and night.dont use ordinary tooth paste.
1. Get a soft or better an extra soft toothbrush if you can find one and brush using only gentle circles (NO hard pressing or scrubbing).
2. Start using a sensitivity toothpaste (they are all the same). The key here is to brush at least once a day and DO NOT RINSE with water or eat or drink for at least 30 minutes. Just spit out the excess and go. Rinsing rinses the sensitivity ingredient off and it will not work as well. However, be sure you are up to date on your check up and cleanings to insure this sensitivity is not from a cavity.
3. Begin using a fluoride rinse at night time if possible. Swish, spit, DO NOT RINSE or eat or drink for at least 30 minutes or just go to bed.
PS You can not do mouthrinse or etc. after the toothpaste or fluoride rinse for at least 30 minutes.
I would tell you that you have to find out the cause of your sensitivity first. That means going to the dentist. If your tooth sensitivity is due to gum recession which exposes the root surface of the teeth, then you can do several things. Your dentist can you a varnish desensitize. This is a temporary measure that can help for a time. You can also use a desensitizing toothpaste such as Sensodyne or Fluoridex.
If your sensitivity is caused due to nerve inflammation (usually caused by grinding and clenching your teeth) this can be treated by your wearing an orthotic appliance in your mouth called a night-guard. This helps to "cushion" your teeth when you are clenching and grinding.
No matter the cause you have to be evaluated by your dentist and then take it from there.
Good luck.
cold sensitivity on one tooth usully indicates a cavity. Hot pain usully indicates a root canal. So if you are having hot/cold pain that 95% of the time means that you are developing an abcess or the decay in your tooth is getting throught he nerve. so if its one tooth go get a root canal. If it is a feeling on all of your teeth change to a sensitive toothpaste. Or your grinding.