What is a nerve test for a sensitive tooth?!
Question: My dentist might want to do this for a sensitive tooth I have but he can't see anything wrong with it. I have a receding gumline--but I have others and they hurt different than this. It's very sensitive to hot and cold--not sweets-- but quickly leaves after. I do grind my teeth--how do they do a nerve test and what does it determine? If I needed a root canal would an x-ray show this? Thx!
Answers: My dentist might want to do this for a sensitive tooth I have but he can't see anything wrong with it. I have a receding gumline--but I have others and they hurt different than this. It's very sensitive to hot and cold--not sweets-- but quickly leaves after. I do grind my teeth--how do they do a nerve test and what does it determine? If I needed a root canal would an x-ray show this? Thx!
Usually the doc squirts cold water on where he thinks it's sensitive. You holler or jump. He knows what to fix. Yes, an X-ray would show the need for a root canal.
This test is for thermal conductivity ,just to check how much sensitive your tooth is it is done clinically by dentist by special testing device or initially by putting cold pack or intact with ethyl chloride pack ,and if your tooth is infected it can be defected in the Xrays and then you have to go for root canal treatment .