Sore, Sensitive, and Mobile Teeth

A patient can have sore and sensitive teeth for multiple reasons. The main contributor to these symptoms is bite trauma. Occlusion (the way your upper and lower teeth contact each other when you bite down or rub around) needs to be balanced in order to avoid one or two teeth bearing the load of clenching, chewing, and grinding.

Your lower jaw is a hinge (movable with a fulcrum), so imagine a back tooth hitting before all other back teeth and how much stress and pressure you apply to that single tooth before all others. Now visualize your jaw joint (ball and socket), see how a single “high” tooth in occlusion can make that joint stretch and strain.

In a situation like the one above, either the tooth gives or the jaw joint gives. Leading to cracked and fractured teeth and/or dislocated or displaced jaw joints. It is imperative to examine sore and sensitive teeth in a comprehensive manor in order to fully solve underlying issues.