Treatment of Dental Hypersensitivity
Volume 4 - Issue 3
Mohamed Wakwak*
- Lecturer of operative dentistry, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Egypt
Received: January 06, 2020; Published: January 13, 2020
*Corresponding author: Mohamed Wakwak, Lecturer of operative dentistry, Faculty of Dental Medicine (Boys, Cairo), Al-Azhar
University, Cairo, Egypt
DOI: 10.32474/LOJMS.2020.04.000187
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Abstract
Background: Dentin hypersensitivity (DH) is a short sharply painful reaction of the exposed and innervated pulp–dentin
complex in response to stimuli being typically thermal, evaporative, tactile, osmotic, or chemical which reaction cannot be attributed
to any dental defect or pathology. Exposed Dentin and tubules patent to both the oral cavity and the pulp. Clinical examination
for DH would include a pain provocation test by a tactile stimulus, an evaporative air stimulus, or a cold stimulus. A number of
dentalconditions can give rise to pain symptoms, which may mimic those of DH. Therefore, careful examination is necessary to
exclude the conditions, which need different treatment options. When the patients do suffer from DH, there is a broad range
of treatment options comprising home-use and professional approaches. It is advised to start with the less invasive home-use
therapies and only expand to professional in office treatments when the home-use treatments are not effective. Most DH therapy
work by either nerve desensitization or occlusion of exposed dental tubules.
Keywords: Sensitive teeth; Dentin hypersensitivity treatment; Dentin hypersensitivity diagnosis; Dentin tubule occlusion
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