Damaged teeth from a punch in the face?!
Question: This past weekend someone I know got punched in the face for reasons that can't exactly be explained other than the person who punched my friend is mentally unstable and thought my friend said something offensive to them...which they did not because I was with them the entire night and never did I hear negative comments, so I'm assuming the puncher just misunderstood my friend. He waited for us to leave that night outside and jumped my friend as we were getting into his car, his nose was bleeding but not broken (this was on Saturday night), and now every time he blows his nose, because he has a chest cold at the moment, his front teeth hurt. They didn't appear to be damaged and his gums were not bleeding. Is there any other reason he may have pain when blowing his nose? (he hasn't gone to the dentist yet)
Answers: This past weekend someone I know got punched in the face for reasons that can't exactly be explained other than the person who punched my friend is mentally unstable and thought my friend said something offensive to them...which they did not because I was with them the entire night and never did I hear negative comments, so I'm assuming the puncher just misunderstood my friend. He waited for us to leave that night outside and jumped my friend as we were getting into his car, his nose was bleeding but not broken (this was on Saturday night), and now every time he blows his nose, because he has a chest cold at the moment, his front teeth hurt. They didn't appear to be damaged and his gums were not bleeding. Is there any other reason he may have pain when blowing his nose? (he hasn't gone to the dentist yet)
Try this on for size. The Upper front teeth lay only a few millimeters from the Upper sinus cavity. The punch your friend sustained may have been just enough to stress out the root tips where the nerves are and at the same time bruise the sinus area...I realize this is stretching a little but it is a real possibility that when you friend blows his nose the internal pressure he creates pushes air pressure into the sinus which in turn places enough pressure on the sinus wall to aggravate the nerve endings that attach to the front teeth. There are many body parts that can move slightly without your realizing they moved and the teeth can indeed do this.
if there is damage to the teeth they will be very sensitive to hot and cold.
when my son was 3 he head butted me and hit my front tooth. i ended up having to get a root canal. the head butt jarred the tooth enough to cut off the blood supply and the nerve died.
the only way to tell is to get an xray. if you ignore it it will not go away but progressively get worse.
the pain may be from getting punched, but you can't tell unless you get it checked out