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Relief! As the rest of you have found, I've been told the sensitivity doesn't equate to teeth riddled with decay I checked with my general dentist today at my check-up and he's confirmed it's nothing at all to do with cavities as I have absolutely none He explained the pain to me like this: each tooth has a nerve going up inside of it, if the tooth moves slowly the nerve has time to reform behind it but if the tooth moves quickly then the nerve can't quite grow fast enough and so gets a bit stretched until it can catch up. It's this stretching that causes the sensitivity and the pain then somehow "transfers" itself to surrounding teeth (he didn't explain exactly how).
So now I guess I just need to invest in some Sensodyne and I'll be ok!
Karen you are lucky you never felt pain with a cavity!! Sometimes when I get pain or sensitivity I cringe because it feels exactly like when I needed a root canal in the past and OMG a tooth the needs a root canal is the worst pain imaginable to me! I would choose childbirth pain over a toothache anyday!
[/quote] The thing is, I can never remember them causing sensitivity issues or pain ... that's why it surprises me that nearly everytime someone seems to have sensitivity issues, they think it's a cavity. [quote][/quote]
Ceramic Upper braces: November 29, 2005
Metal Lowers go on: March 7th, 2006
I checked with my general dentist today at my check-up and he's confirmed it's nothing at all to do with cavities as I have absolutely none 
