How is Toothache

Toothache belong to all of us to the worst pain, because they originate in the vicinity of the so-called sensory organs have. Under a toothache or pain in the head and neck area with the proximity to the eyes, ears, nose and mouth is generally suffers much more than pain in the extremities (arms, legs), even if the pain is no greater strength. Even small irritations are perceived as burdensome.


When injury or inflammation are from the affected tissue (for example, gums, Zahnnerv, jaw bones) the body's own messengers (small chemical molecules) are released, which migrate through the tissue and a binding site on the "nerve pain" (Nozizeptoren) search. Find these messengers appropriate for themselves exactly right (like a key fits into a lock) binding sites, the "Schmerznerv" activated and sends them to the brain activation. In this brain chemical-electrical stimulation as pain perception.

The bigger, the worse
The bigger the injury or inflammation, the more messengers in the affected tissue will be released and the more "nerve pain" can be activated. According to reinforce the stimuli in the brain as pain perception.

How can we prevent a toothache?
Obviously, like almost everywhere is the best prevention method. The human body is a very fragile construction of nature, which must be well maintained so that damage may prevent or delay. However, it is even the best prevention someday come to harm, to which the body usually with the warning symptoms "pain" drawing attention. Only the removal of the shutter (healing of the injury, inflammation of decay) can achieve lasting pain elimination. And for the transitional phase, that is until the permanent cure, can pain medications (analgesics) a temporary pain relief or even bring pain relief.



Causes
Toothache in principle have different causes. The mechanism for toothache, however, is the following: the nerve supply to the tooth pain is responsible for the situation responsibility, which extends to the dentin. The outermost layer, the enamel is insensitive, but for certain factors such as cold permeable.

Injury and inflammation
Toothaches are usually small by injury or inflammation in the area of the teeth and gums caused. Periodontosis is such an inflammation, leading to painful changes in the gums leads. But also caries, where it is too tiny injuries (holes) of the tooth enamel comes, allows bacteria in the tooth challenge, and finally an inflammation on Zahnnerv to cause.

Caries and pulpitis
The most common causes of dental caries are pain and / or a nerve inflammation (pulpitis):

Caries is a destruction or dissolution of the tooth hard substance, which can be painful when they reached the dentin.

Pulpitis is an inflammation of the pulp (nerve inflammation), it can be done by force or caries (trauma) arise. There are a reversible and irreversible pulpitis.

A reversible pulpitis can eliminate the cause disappears, or in an irreversible pulpitis go. In the first case of the tooth still responded to cold. Is an irreversible pulpitis before responding to the tooth is often not on the cold test.

An irreversible pulpitis should in any case with a root filling supply. Failing this could lead to inflammation of the root tip spread into the bone, and it creates a apical periodontitis or apical cyst.

Operations
Obviously, all these processes of the injury until the pain perception also by a dental surgery (operation) caused. Just come here all the situations described in the same way to other tissues throughout the body. A cut through a kitchen knife on effect through the thumb injury and inflammation of the tissue and the release of messengers ultimately nothing more than the "violation" of dental caries or enamel by the operation wound after a drawn-tooth.