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Toothache causes and treatment
When tooth pain becomes
severe, we call it a toothache.
Severe tooth pain indicates a severe problem
in the tooth. Here is a
typical course for toothache pain: You have a tooth becomes sensitive to
cold. The sensitivity starts becoming worse. When you have a cold stimulus,
it produces a mild toothache. As time goes on, the toothache produced
becomes more intense. The toothache may start off lasting only a second, and
then it may linger for a few seconds or a few minutes. Then the tooth begins
to hurt even when cold isn't placed on it. The toothache pain can become so
severe that it absorbs all your consciousness.
Pain is the way your body communicates to you
that you need to do something because something is wrong. What is happening
with the pain progression as it is explained above is that your tooth is
becoming infected. At first, it is only an irritation. The irritation is
usually caused by deep decay. Sometimes this can be decay under an old
filling. The porous dentin of your tooth allows some bacteria and some
products of the infection to get into the living tissue inside your tooth.
At first the irritation only causes your tooth to become a little extra
sensitive. As the infection progresses, your body tries to marshal defenses
to fight the infection. The problem is that, inside your tooth, there is no
extra room for white blood cells or for the normal tissue swelling that
occurs in other parts of the body—so as
the tissue tries to swell, it strangulates itself and kills itself.
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