My tooth is loose and it still hurts.

A set of white and healthy teeth is not only a tool for people to chew food, but also reflects the health of the human body. If teeth become loose or painful, it will not only cause physical discomfort, but will also affect our normal life and make eating difficult. If it is just simple looseness with no lesions, it may recover on its own with proper care, but if pain or pathological changes occur, you should seek examination and treatment immediately.

Causes of tooth mobility

1. Loose and painful teeth can be caused by many reasons, including trauma, periodontal disease, and apical periodontitis. I think if you have loose and painful teeth, it is best to see a dentist and have them evaluate you and start treatment.

2. Maybe many people do not have the habit of visiting the dentist. To be honest, people in big cities pay more attention to dental care and visit the dentist more often. You should know that in foreign countries, dentists are a group with super high incomes in the medical industry.

As our country develops, people pay more and more attention to their teeth and visit dentists, so we must have this awareness. The more timely and thorough our teeth protection is, the later our teeth will become loose and fall out as we age, which is definitely good for us.

My tooth is loose and it still hurts.

TIP1 Looseness and pain caused by impingement

1. First of all, if it is caused by trauma or collision, such as accidentally falling and knocking your teeth, it is very likely that the teeth will be loose and painful, and even accompanied by bleeding. In this case, there is no need for treatment and you can wait for the teeth to recover on their own. After a while, they may become strong and painless.

2. In fact, what you need to pay attention to is not to use this loose tooth to chew, especially chew some "hard" food, which will make the situation worse and is not conducive to the recovery of the tooth. In fact, in this case, taking some anti-inflammatory drugs appropriately can also help recovery and relieve pain.

TIP2 Loose teeth and pain caused by oral diseases

1. If there is no external force causing it, but you suddenly feel your teeth become loose and painful or because you have eaten something (for example, you eat some hard food and when you chew it you find your teeth are loose and painful, but other teeth are fine), then you need to see a dentist to find out what is causing it!

2. Similar situations may occur in periodontitis or periapical inflammation. No matter what, the loose and painful teeth caused by things like getting angry are actually caused by "inflammation" in and around the teeth, which makes the teeth unable to be fixed and naturally become loose.

3. Control inflammation. Once the inflammation is under control, the pain caused by loose teeth can be alleviated, and the symptoms will subside after a period of time. During this period, just pay attention to oral hygiene and do not chew hard food with this loose tooth.

4. Loose and painful teeth caused by caries. Well, I have personal experience of this. More than a year ago, I was a caries patient. I had a lot of caries, but the largest one was the second molar on my right lower jaw. I could put a grain of rice in the cavity. It was not an exaggeration at all. I couldn't bear it anymore. I couldn't chew anything on my right side for a long time, so I went to fill the tooth. Fortunately, it got much better after the filling.

How to take good care of your teeth

1. Don't be lax about dental care. Brush your teeth correctly and pay attention to the hygiene of your teeth and oral cavity. Brush your teeth with warm water in winter and take good care of your teeth. This can reduce the occurrence of dental and oral diseases.

2. It is best not to take anti-inflammatory drugs every time you have a toothache. As time goes by, you will find that you have developed resistance to many drugs. You will recover from a cold and cough faster than others. Once you develop pneumonia or something like that, it will be even more difficult to recover, because ordinary antibiotics will have little effect on you due to your strong drug resistance.

Other considerations

1. The recovery situations of the elderly and the young, the strong and immune-positive people and the weak and immune-poor people, will be very different if they both experience loose and painful teeth. Just like Chinese medicine links teeth to "kidneys", "kidneys produce marrow, marrow nourishes bones", "teeth are the sprouts of bones", and if the kidneys are healthy, the teeth will be healthy.

2. Of course, the "kidney" in the sense of traditional Chinese medicine does not only refer to the kidneys, but covers a system of multiple physiological functions, such as promoting the body's growth, development, reproduction, and regulating the body's metabolism (including bone metabolism), immunity, and physiological vitality.

3. "Kidney deficiency" can lead to the weakening of bone metabolism and immune function, and the gums (alveolar bone) are a very active part of the human body's bone metabolism and also a weak link in the immune defense line. Kidney deficiency will make teeth loose more easily.

4. Therefore, ensure nutrition, maintain good "kidneys", and make the body stronger, which can make the teeth stronger and less likely to loosen. It’s like some people rarely brush their teeth and don’t pay much attention to hygiene, but their teeth are still great and they enjoy everything they eat; some people pay attention to oral hygiene and know how to brush their teeth, but their teeth are always loose and painful. This depends on each person's physical constitution.