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Normally, the body is able to keep the sinuses clean and healthy, despite the dark, moist environment that bacteria love. However, when conditions are right, bacteria can grow out of control in the sinuses, causing a sinus infection. One cause of sinus infections is the common cold. Interestingly enough, teeth can also cause sinus infections.
How Your Sinuses Can Cause Tooth Pain. Below you’ll find a dental x-ray. I outlined the floor of the maxillary sinus (the sinus located above your upper teeth) so that you can see how close it comes to the roots of your upper molars. On the left side, it looks like the sinus floor goes below the roots of the upper molars. Usually this isn’t ...
1- Losing teeth, especially the back teeth that bear a lot of the force when you bite down. 2 – Grinding your teeth. As you grind, you wear away tooth structure and your teeth get shorter, which causes your whole face to get shorter! 3 – Getting cavities. Cavities also eat away tooth structure and can cause your bite to collapse.
Here are a few reasons why dentists normally extract wisdom teeth: There isn’t enough room in the jaw for them to come in. There won’t be enough room in the mouth for them to come in. Due to lack of space, wisdom teeth often come in at an awkward angle and can damage adjacent teeth. If they never break through into the mouth, they can cause ...
Here’s a time line of when you should apply cold and heat to your cheeks to reduce swelling: 0-24 hours after wisdom teeth extraction: Apply ice for 20 minutes on, then 20 minutes off. 24-48 hours after wisdom teeth extraction: Don’t apply ice or heat. 48 hours after wisdom teeth extraction: Apply heat. Keep in mind that you shouldn’t ...
1 – The anesthetic gets absorbed more slowly into your body because blood flow to the injection site is decreased. Since blood levels of the local anesthetic are decreased, the risk of having an “overdose” of the dental anesthetic is minimized. 2 – Since there is less blood flow, the dental anesthetic stays put right around the nerve ...
1– Biting your nails can cause your teeth to get chipped. This is definitely the biggest reason to not bite your nails. Chewing on hard fingernails can take its toll on your teeth. Sometimes when bite through a nail, your teeth hit together pretty hard, which could chip a tooth. Repeated flexing of your teeth’s enamel occurs when you bite ...
Yes, you can keep your extracted tooth. There are no federal laws or regulations that prohibit, let alone discourage, dentists from giving patients their extracted teeth. Let’s take a look at some of the excuses dentists use to justify keeping extracted teeth that a patient requests to keep: “It’s infectious waste and could infect other ...
If an extra tooth is located in the middle of the two front teeth, it is called a mesiodens. If the extra tooth is located around the molar area, it is called a paramolar. If the extra tooth is located behind the wisdom teeth, it is known as a distodens. If an extra tooth is shaped like another “normal” tooth, it is called a supplemental tooth.
1 – Biting Pain. The ligament may become inflamed around the tooth, causing the tooth to hurt when you bite down on it. This may affect the tooth with the high filling, but it can also affect other teeth if the high filling has thrown off your bite.