Why do overly sweet foods make your teeth “hurt”
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It’s a tooth sensitivity thing like hot and cold. I don’t remember why sweet causes the same pain, but the treatment is usually sensitive toothpaste.
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Gum with Xylitol will kill the bacteria in your mouth and any bacteria related mouth pain will go away.
The bacteria eat sugars, Xylitol is a artificial sweetener, the bacteria think it is sugar, they eat it but there are no nutrients for them, so they starve and die.
This does not happen instantly, it takes a few hours of chewing the gum. But it works every single time.
It’s a tooth sensitivity thing like hot and cold. I don’t remember why sweet causes the same pain, but the treatment is usually sensitive toothpaste.
Maybe it could be psychosomatic.
You probably already know that sweets are bad for your teeth.
That damage is more long-term, but your subconcious might not be too aware of the timescale here, and so your mind anticipates the damage, and you experience short-term pain despite any damage to your teeth being a bit in the future (and possible mitigated if you clean your teeth shortly after eating sweet foods).
Actual answer: hydrodynamic theory
Let’s say teeth have 3 layers. The inside layer is pulp, which is like the core of the tooth, containing pulp cells and nerves.
The middle layer of the tooth, surrounding the pulp, is the dentin. The dentin is made up of many tiny tubules containing finger-like projections of the pulp cells. These tubules open into little pores on the tooth surface.
When sugar meets these little tubules, osmosis causes the fluid inside to rush out, stretching the little fingerling projections of the cells, triggering a nerve response.
The outer layer of the tooth is enamel, which is kind of an insulation keeping many stimuli away from these sensitive little tubules. When enamel is damaged or absent, say from a cavity or recession respectively, it no longer present to protect those tubules and they become exposed to stimuli.
Toothpastes like Sensodyne contain potassium nitrate, which plugs up these little tubules and protects them from these outside stimuli.
Source: am dentist
Maybe it could be psychosomatic.
You probably already know that sweets are bad for your teeth.
That damage is more long-term, but your subconcious might not be too aware of the timescale here, and so your mind anticipates the damage, and you experience short-term pain despite any damage to your teeth being a bit in the future (and possible mitigated if you clean your teeth shortly after eating sweet foods).
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