Tooth pain is one of those symptoms that’s hard to ignore because it can interfere with eating, sleeping, and even thinking clearly. Sometimes it shows up as sharp sensitivity, other times as a dull ...

Image courtesy of University of Maryland, Baltimore. Inside a human tooth, more than 50,000 such tubules per square millimeter act as channels running from the nerve up through the tooth. They are ...

The danger lies in how quickly infection can reach the nerve of the tooth. In a normal tooth, enamel and dentine provide ...

Tooth nerves typically react only after dental damage has progressed beyond the enamel into the dentin or pulp. Because enamel lacks nerves and early decay develops slowly, pain is often delayed until ...