Seven typical cases of ‘non-denture toothache’ that causes toothache other than teeth.
Non-denture toothache is a case of toothache even though there is no cause for tooth.
Even if you go to the dentist because of your toothache, you can’t find anything bad about your teeth, including cavities and gum disease. These are called “related pains” that cause toothaches when they are elsewhere.
■ Toothache due to muscles around the chin.
There are cases of toothache due to muscle fatigue such as excessive use of muscles around the chin. The area of toothache is irregular or the pain becomes dull. If you have a muscle problem, you should be able to see something like a lump in the muscle related to a painful tooth. If pressing a lump reproduces a toothache, relaxing the muscles improves the symptoms. I recommend you to see a dentist.
■ Toothache caused by sinusitis, etc.
If you catch a cold, your upper molar hurts, and when you recover from the cold, your toothache also improves. If the pain is severe, go to the ENT and get proper treatment. You need to see an ENT.
■ Toothache due to related pain caused by headache.
Toothache can also be very painful in connection with headaches. When the headache calms down, the toothache can also disappear. Let’s give priority to taking care of headaches by consulting with neurosurgery or outpatients.
■ Toothache caused by neuralgia such as trident neuralgia.
Even if there is no problem with the tooth, it is a sudden pain caused by some kind of disability in the central nervous system connected to the tooth. In the case of trigeminal neuralgia, it is also called “electrifying pain” because of a sudden convulsive and intense pain. The causes of the pain can be slight stimuli such as brushing teeth, shaving, and chatting. The intensity and location of the pain may not be the same. You can also consult at the dentist or pain clinic.
■ Toothache thought to be caused by shingles.
When the shingle virus affects the trigeminal nerve, the pain that makes you unable to sleep at night can lead to acute symptoms that continue throughout the day. It is called a toothache that is hard to cure because it can remain a toothache even if it becomes a chronic symptom. You might want to consult a pain clinic or an anesthesiologist.
■ Toothache related to myocardial infarction and angina.
There are cases of toothaches related to myocardial infarction or angina, or toothaches can increase if you exercise. Internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine will take care of it.
■ Toothache caused by stress and mental factors.
There are times when you have toothaches due to physical symptoms such as schizophrenia and depression. We can deal with it in conjunction with psychosomatics and psychiatry.
In addition to these, there is also an “unknown sudden toothache” that does not apply at all. Toothache can take time to reach the point where there is a cause other than the tooth, because even the slightest crack in the tooth can cause the cause to be identified as the symptoms gradually change.
If there is a fundamental cause other than teeth, naturally treatment of teeth does not improve symptoms such as pain. If you see a dentist and find out that there is no cause for your teeth, you need to understand that there are cases where toothache may not be treated even if you have a toothache as mentioned above.