What Can You Dentist In Havant Do For Your Tooth Sensitivity?
Sensitive teeth are actually seriously underestimated on the discomfort scale in our opinion. Having sensitive teeth can be seriously jaring. It affects every part of your day and seriously impacts one of the most important, pleasurable parts of being a human… eating.
So, what can be done to help those with uncomfortable smiles? More than you might think. Here’s all we at Parkway Dental Care and your dentist in Havant can do for you and your sensitive teeth.
Why Do Teeth Become Sensitive?
Sensitivity starts to occur for lots of reasons, it could be linked to a medical condition or new medication. It could be to do with poor oral hygiene or even over cleaning. Or it could be diet related? The most important thing in the beginning is to successfully identify what it is that’s causing you, your tooth sensitivity. And this is done with your dentist in Havant. You need to come and see us to get a check up as soon as you begin to show signs of sensitivity – it’s no use just getting some toothpaste and moving on because though this can be an excellent treatment, it doesn’t mean it’s the right treatment for you.
What Can Be Done?
This is very much depending on the person and it’s very hard to go into accurate detail in a generalized post such as this. It could be that all that is needed is a good clean with the hygienist and then the use of a desensitizing toothpaste such as sensodyne. You could need some work with the teeth themselves and some might need removing if it’s a case that infection has spread, you could need some help with jaw placement if it’s due to grinding or if the enamel is worn away you could need an enamel treatment.. As I say, it’s very difficult to make broad statements.
How Can It Be Avoided ?
Firstly and most important is diet. One of the biggest causes of tooth sensitivity is worn enamel. This is in most cases as consequence to a diet that’s been used to high levels of sugars and acids. You’d be amazed at just how much acid is hidden in foods, especially processed and refined ones. Addressing your diet and becoming more aware of the specific contents of your foods is going to put you in a far better position in regards to sensitivity moving forward.
Wearing a nightguard – hundreds, in fact thousands of peoples are grinding away at their teeth during the night. This is a consequence of the high stress, high anxiety lives that we lead. Jaw clenching and grinding doesn’t always have to be a consequence to misalignment, it can literally be a subconscious act due to stress and for this we offer two remedies: invest in a nightguard to wear whilst you sleep, and two investing therapy, yes it can feel kind of crazy to think of a therapist as being a solution to your teeth sensitivity but our bodies link in weird and wonder ways.
If you’re worried about sensitive teeth then don’t wait to get in contact, ring today, your dentist in Havant is here for you.