What to do if your teeth become loose when biting hard objects

There are many reasons why teeth become loose when biting hard objects. If you are young, there is generally no big problem and slight looseness will slowly recover. However, if you are older, your teeth may become loose and gradually become larger. At this time, you should go to the hospital for examination in time, and then receive appropriate treatment according to the specific symptoms. If it is moderately loose, orthodontic treatment can be performed. Severe looseness can be treated by extracting the bad teeth.

What should I do if my teeth become loose after biting hard objects?

1. Treatment of loose teeth caused by periodontal disease

Mild looseness: Through effective periodontal treatment, it will usually return to normal;

Moderate looseness: When treating periodontal disease, the loose teeth should be ligated and fixed together with the adjacent teeth to reduce the load on the loose teeth and prevent the looseness from getting worse. At this time, most loose teeth cannot be restored.

Severe looseness: refers to degree 3 tooth looseness. In this case, the method of extracting the affected teeth is often used to avoid adding unnecessary burden to adjacent teeth.

2. Treatment of loose teeth caused by trauma

Mild looseness: You can take anti-inflammatory drugs. Once the inflammation subsides, the teeth will automatically return to a stable state.

If the tooth is severely loose, dislocated or shifted: the tooth should be repositioned, then ligated and fixed to the adjacent teeth, and anti-inflammatory drugs should be taken, oral hygiene should be maintained, and the tooth should not be used in the short term, etc. After 1-2 months, the tooth will return to normal.

3. Treatment of loose teeth caused by other reasons

Loose teeth that occur during an acute attack of periodontitis or apical periodontitis: The treatment is mainly to control inflammation. Once the acute inflammation is relieved, the loose teeth will also be reduced or disappear.

Loose teeth occur when the biting force of the teeth is too great or the bite relationship is abnormal: Generally, after the doctor adjusts the bite and eliminates the bite trauma, the alveolar bone can repair itself and the teeth can return to a stable state.

Many patients have two misunderstandings about loose teeth: one is that all loose teeth should be extracted, and the other is that they would rather let loose teeth fall out on their own than have them extracted. In the treatment of loose teeth, Kova Dental will always implement the principle of treating the disease according to the cause of the loose teeth, and use targeted treatment according to the different causes of loose teeth.