When your teeth are healthy, you don't think about them much. You bite into foods without really noticing all the work your chompers are doing, you brush them twice a day (and if you're listening to ...

Toothache or tooth pain is caused when the nerve root of the tooth is irritated. Each tooth has a dental pulp in the middle, which is very soft and spongy, containing lots of sensitive nerves and ...

Ignoring a toothache or putting up with a toothache can seem like a small nuisance at the time, doing so can have serious long-term effects on your oral and general health. Overlooking dental ...

On the basis of a nationally representative sample, about 7.5 million children in the United States had a toothache in the past 6 months (95% CI, 7.1-7.8 million). At least 88% of children with a ...

Every once in a while, people suffer from toothaches. The toothache can arise due to many reasons and can be mild to excruciating in severity. From a superficial perspective, it may not look like a ...

It is Sunday morning, your molar is throbbing, and your dentist is nowhere to be found. Do you ride it out, head to urgent care, or make a beeline for the ER? Emergency physician Jeffrey Druck, MD, ...