Toothache belong to all of us to the worst pain, because it originate in the vicinity of the so-called sensory organs have.

Toothaches
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.

What is pain?
When injury or inflammation are the body's own tissues affected neurotransmitters are released, which migrate through the tissue and a binding site in the "nerve pain" search. Find these messengers appropriate for themselves exactly right (like a key fits into a lock) binding sites, is activated and transmits this activation to the brain. In the brain, this chemical-electrical stimulation as pain perception.

The bigger, the worse
The greater the injury or inflammation, the more neurotransmitters in the affected tissues are released and the more "nerve pain" can be activated. Accordingly, the reinforcing stimuli in the brain as pain perception.

How can you prevent toothache?
Of course, like almost everywhere is the best prevention method. The human body is a very fragile structure of nature, which must be well maintained, so that damage may prevent or delay. Nevertheless, even the best prevention someday come to harm on the body usually with the warning "pain" a lot of attention. Only the removal of the shutter (healing of the injury, inflammation of the decay) can be a lasting pain removal reach. And for the transition period, ie until the permanent cure, can pain medications (analgesics) a temporary pain relief, or even take a pain relief.



Causes
Toothache in principle have different causes. The mechanism of tooth pain, however, is the following: the nerve supply of the tooth is responsible for the pain situation, which extends down to the dentin. The outermost layer of tooth 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. Such is inflammation leading to painful changes of the gums leads. But also caries, where there has tiny lesions (holes) of the tooth's enamel, allowing bacteria in the tooth of aid, and finally an inflammation on Zahnnerv cause.

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

Caries is the destruction or dissolution of dental hard tissue, which can be painful when it reaches the dentin.

Pulpitis is an inflammation of the pulp (nerve inflammation), they may decay or by force (trauma) entstehen. There are a reversible and irreversible pulpitis.

Reversible pulpitis can eliminate the cause or disappear but in an irreversible pulpitis go. In the first case, the tooth still responded to cold. If a prior irreversible pulpitis, the tooth often reacts to the cold test.

Irreversible pulpitis should in any case with a root canal filling supply. If not, can result in inflammation of the root tip into the bone to spread, and it requires apical periodontitis or apical cyst.

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