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Pain & Sensitivity
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Pain & Sensitivity
- Headache From the Neck: Can It Spread to Face and Teeth?Headache from the neck can spread to the forehead, around the eye and the face. Signs that set it apart from toothache and TMD, red flags and treatments.
- Jaw Joint Clicking and Locking: What Causes It?A clicking jaw is usually harmless, but locking is not the same thing. We explain morning jaw pain, teeth clenching, and when you need a scan.
- Why Does Toothache Spread to the Jaw and Ear?Why toothache spreads to the ear and temple, how it is confused with the jaw joint and sinusitis, and when to see a dentist or another doctor.
- Chewing Muscle Pain: The Muscle or the Jaw Joint?Cheek and temple pain that gets worse when pressed usually comes from the chewing muscles and can spread to a tooth. Muscle vs joint, self-care, exercises.
- What Does It Mean If Your Tooth Hurts When You Chew?A tooth that hurts on chewing points to a crack, root-tip inflammation, a high filling or a fracture. Which can wait, and which needs a dentist today?
- Why Is Toothache Worse at Night?Why toothache gets worse lying down: pressure in the pulp. What night-time pain points to, what to do at home, and the signs that mean A&E.
- How to Relieve Toothache: Home Care or A&E?What safely eases toothache at home, why aspirin should never touch the tooth, what the pattern of pain tells you about its cause, and when to go to A&E.
- Do Antibiotics Get Rid of Toothache?Why antibiotics rarely stop toothache, when they are genuinely needed, why the source must be treated, and the risks of leftover antibiotics.
- Dental Nerve Injury: Will the Numbness Go Away?Inferior alveolar and lingual nerves give different pictures. Risk with wisdom teeth, implants and root canals, the timeline and the three-month referral.
- Pain and Sensitivity After a Filling: How Much Is Normal?Mild sensitivity after a filling passes in a week or two. High fillings, pain lasting seconds vs minutes, and when it should be looked at again.
- Tension Headache and Teeth Clenching: What Is the Link?Clenching during the day is linked to tension-type headache, and it can also cause toothache. Tooth or muscle: how to tell them apart, and when it is urgent.
- Numbness After a Dental Injection: How Long?After a dental injection, numbness in the lip and tongue usually lasts three to five hours. What numbness the next day means, and when to ring the clinic.
- How to Tell Heart-Related Jaw Pain ApartCan jaw pain be a sign of a heart attack? The signs that set it apart from dental pain, when to call 112, and how a dentist makes the distinction.
- Is Pain After Root Canal Treatment Normal?How much pain is normal in the first days after root canal treatment, signs of a high or lost temporary filling, and what a flare-up or later pain means.
- Why Does the Tooth Under a (Zirconia) Crown Hurt?Sensitivity in a new crown's first weeks is normal. Pain that starts or worsens weeks later can point to the bite, decay under the crown or a crack.
- Full or Blocked Ear: The Ear, the Jaw Joint or a Tooth?A full ear can come from the Eustachian tube, earwax, the sinuses or the jaw joint. Telling clenching apart, and why sudden hearing loss needs same-day care.
- What Is Pulpitis? Reversible and Irreversible PulpitisPulpitis is inflammation of the tooth's nerve. The 1–2 second rule that tells reversible from irreversible, pulpotomy, root canal and where antibiotics fit.
- Toothache but Nothing on the X-ray: Possible CausesClear X-ray but your tooth still hurts? A crack, early nerve inflammation, the sinus and referred pain; what a plain X-ray and a CT scan show, and miss.
- Jaw Pain in the Morning: Clenching or Sleep Apnoea?A jaw that aches when you wake up usually comes from clenching at night and the chewing muscles. Sleep apnoea, night guards, self-care and warning signs.
- Can a Tooth Cause Temple Pain? Clenching, Jaw and WarningsTemple pain can come from clenching, the jaw joint or a painful tooth. A simple test to try at home, and the signs that count as urgent if you are over 50.
- What Does Sensitivity to Hot and Cold Mean?Why teeth react to hot and cold, a twinge lasting seconds versus pain lasting minutes, what sensitivity to heat means, and when to act quickly.
- Can Sinusitis Cause Toothache?How to tell sinus-related toothache from real toothache, the risk of infection spreading from tooth to sinus, and why it matters for upper-jaw implants.
- Temporal Arteritis: Temple Pain and Jaw Pain When ChewingTemporal arteritis causes temple pain and jaw pain when chewing in over-50s and can lead to blindness. How it differs from TMD, and the emergency signs.
- Trigeminal Neuralgia: The Shock Mistaken for ToothacheTrigeminal neuralgia causes electric-shock facial pain lasting seconds and is mistaken for toothache. Signs, diagnosis, medicines and needless extractions.
- Toothache on a Plane: Why It Happens, What It Points ToToothache on a plane points to a faulty filling, an inflamed nerve or a blocked sinus. Telling them apart by take-off or descent, and what to do after landing.
- Facial Twitching: Harmless or Hemifacial Spasm?Eyelid twitching mostly comes with tiredness and caffeine and passes on its own. When do twitching across half the face and jaw spasm need a neurologist?
- Shingles on the Face: Nerve Pain Mistaken for ToothacheFacial shingles can start like toothache days before the rash. How to tell it from a tooth, the 3-day antiviral window and the urgent signs for the eye.
- Throbbing Toothache: What It Means, and When to WorryA throbbing toothache can mean irreversible nerve inflammation or an abscess. A 1 to 2 second test at home, misleading referred pain and emergency signs.