Except in cases where you experience some kind of blunt force trauma, tooth aches are normally the result of years of slow erosion to your teeth.
This wear and tear is occurring on a daily basis, as the bacteria living in your mouth de-mineralize your teeth as they excrete acids from the food they share with you.
You usually remain completely unaware of this process until you suddenly experience a sharp pain or dull throbbing of a tooth.
Here are some of the many different factors that can contribute to tooth aches:
Your teeth may be super sensitive. Tooth sensitivity is something that can suddenly appear, and one day you may notice your teeth are more sensitive to things than they were the day before.
Hypersensitivity is where your teeth are extremely reactive to hot and cold, in fact just cold drafts can set your teeth into a tail spin, even excess moisture can make them react.
This sensitivity is caused by the erosion of the enamel layer that normally protects your teeth. This is something that occurs as we eat our food. Think of our chewing action like a bevel, each time we grind, we take off some of the minerals we need to keep the teeth strong. The more we file down our teeth naturally through the action of eating , the more enamel we lose until it gets down close to the pulp. As the enamel thins, the pulp, nerve and dentine is less protected, and the tooth's nerve becomes much more sensitive to hot and cold elements, and causing you to experience pain.
If you have a toothache the best cure is natural. One natural cure involves putting garlic cloves directly on a tooth that is hurting. Garlic will help kill bacteria that is causing infection as well as having natural anesthetic abilities that will reduce pain in the afflicted area.
Eventually, however, you need to repair the offending tooth. Yes teeth can repair themselves because they are living entities with blood flow. That's what teeth are supposed to do naturally but it's because of our poor diet and lifestyle that teeth are unable to do this as effectively as our ancestors would have.
Our continual consumption of sugary and refined foods inhibits this process, although with the correct diet and the consumption of diary products, our teeth should be able to re-mineralize themselves.
If you really want to prevent future tooth decay, rebuilding and strengthening your teeth is the key.
To learn how to prevent a toothache from ever happening again, visit the links below.
This wear and tear is occurring on a daily basis, as the bacteria living in your mouth de-mineralize your teeth as they excrete acids from the food they share with you.
You usually remain completely unaware of this process until you suddenly experience a sharp pain or dull throbbing of a tooth.
Here are some of the many different factors that can contribute to tooth aches:
Your teeth may be super sensitive. Tooth sensitivity is something that can suddenly appear, and one day you may notice your teeth are more sensitive to things than they were the day before.
Hypersensitivity is where your teeth are extremely reactive to hot and cold, in fact just cold drafts can set your teeth into a tail spin, even excess moisture can make them react.
This sensitivity is caused by the erosion of the enamel layer that normally protects your teeth. This is something that occurs as we eat our food. Think of our chewing action like a bevel, each time we grind, we take off some of the minerals we need to keep the teeth strong. The more we file down our teeth naturally through the action of eating , the more enamel we lose until it gets down close to the pulp. As the enamel thins, the pulp, nerve and dentine is less protected, and the tooth's nerve becomes much more sensitive to hot and cold elements, and causing you to experience pain.
If you have a toothache the best cure is natural. One natural cure involves putting garlic cloves directly on a tooth that is hurting. Garlic will help kill bacteria that is causing infection as well as having natural anesthetic abilities that will reduce pain in the afflicted area.
Eventually, however, you need to repair the offending tooth. Yes teeth can repair themselves because they are living entities with blood flow. That's what teeth are supposed to do naturally but it's because of our poor diet and lifestyle that teeth are unable to do this as effectively as our ancestors would have.
Our continual consumption of sugary and refined foods inhibits this process, although with the correct diet and the consumption of diary products, our teeth should be able to re-mineralize themselves.
If you really want to prevent future tooth decay, rebuilding and strengthening your teeth is the key.
To learn how to prevent a toothache from ever happening again, visit the links below.
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