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Pulling Sensation in the Incisor!

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Posted by: sharron  (1 year ago)
Good evening,

I have a somewhat strange question: The problem is that I’m experiencing a pulling sensation in my entire upper row of teeth, the left incisor in particular! I first felt it in January; then it was quiet for several weeks, but now it’s really bad again. I don’t feel anything in the morning; it only starts around noon and then it comes and goes!!

A few days ago, I noticed that when I bump my head (my forehead) with my small daughter’s – something she enjoys doing – I experience a pulling sensation in my left incisor!!! That’s impossible, isn’t it? And yesterday, she inadvertently bumped against my cheek (my cheekbone) and again, I experienced a pulling sensation in the tooth.

Today, I also noticed that the pulling sensation is present when I tap my jawbone, which I did deliberately today in order to find out whether the pulling occurs then as well. Could you please tell me what this might be?

On Friday, I saw my dentist and he said that he couldn’t imagine what it could be. He placed ice on the tooth and the tooth reacted to it. My dentist said that if the tooth (and the nerve) reacts to cold, then it’s okay! But it also reacts more sensitively to cold than the other teeth. And when I drink coffee, the upper row of teeth respond with a pulling sensation as well! But when I tap my forehead, the pulling sensation is only in the left upper incisor.

This phenomenon doesn’t let me rest anymore because I keep wondering what it could be. The pulling in the upper jaw is such an unpleasant feeling. The dentist also said that there is no correlation between the forehead, the cheek, and the incisor. I would very much appreciate an answer in order to have some peace of mind. I’m already imagining the worst!!! Thank you and have a nice evening...

P.S.: I’m really afraid because I don’t know what this is...
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Dear Sharron,

First of all, there are no strange questions, only stupid answers.

Now, your toothache can have different causes; it could be caused by sensitive tooth necks, which often can’t be distinguished from a normal toothache, but your pain could also be caused by a combination of several causes. Let’s think this through:

You have exposed tooth necks; therefore, the dental nerve is in contact with the “outside world,” because the dentin is directly connected to the dental nerve through many small canals. The dental nerve may be damaged through this contact with the outside world, thus, the dental nerve could be inflamed as well. So the pain comes from the tooth necks, in addition to the pain coming from the dental nerve.

It could also be an inflammation of the maxillary sinus, known as sinusitis. Just go and visit one or several colleagues once again in order to track down the “secret!”
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Posted by: sharron  (1 year ago)
First of all, I’m a woman.

Thank you very much for your quick answer. I will follow your advice. So I don’t have to worry about whether there is something in my head causing the pressure, right?

I went for a massage this evening and told my masseuse about the problem with my teeth. She said that there is a connection between the pelvic floor and the incisors!!!

With that in mind, it could also originate from there, but how do I find that out? I would like to get rid of this pulling sensation as fast possible.

I am somewhat sensitive in this area because there have been several brain tumors in my family and so the smallest pulling or pinching in the head makes me fearful that I could have something there as well.

And if it is indeed the tooth necks or the dental nerve, what can I do to make it go away??

But my dentist said that there’s no connection from the incisors up towards the forehead and into the cheek.

I look forward to your answer and wish you a nice evening...

Kind regards,

Sharron
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Dear Sharron,

“So I don’t have to worry about whether there is something in my head causing the pressure, right?”

I wouldn’t worry about that; if something happens, it happens – e.g., a brain tumor. You will notice that anyway and worrying about all the things that could happen... You know what I mean...

"I went for a massage this evening and told my masseuse about the problem with my teeth. And she said that there’s a connection between the pelvic floor and the incisors!!!”

I’m not familiar with this connection. What is this connection supposed to do? What do people with a full prosthesis do?

Maybe what the masseuse meant to say is that a pelvic obliquity can also have an effect on the jaw and vice versa – I do know that. Do you have an oblique pelvis?

“With that in mind, it could also originate from there, but how do I find that out? I would like to get rid of this pulling sensation as fast possible.”

I understand wanting to “get rid of it.” If it’s connected to bad posture, then correct the bad posture. But I think it’s the tooth necks. The best thing to do is to see a colleague and have him/her look at the teeth once more.

“I am somewhat sensitive in this area, because there have been several brain tumors in my family and so the smallest pulling or pinching in the head makes me fearful that I could have something there as well.”

As I said, don’t think about it – if it happens, you’ll be the first one to know.

“And if it is indeed the tooth necks or the dental nerve, what can I do to make it go away??”

Have the tooth necks sealed. If there’s no improvement after 3-4 applications, then I would consider a root canal treatment...

“But my dentist said that there is no connection from the incisors up towards the forehead and into the cheek.”

The teeth in the upper jaw are sensitively supplied by the “nervus infraorbitalis;” it also supplies parts of the face...

“I look forward to your answer and wish you a nice evening...
Kind regards, Silberblitz”

Kind regards to you as well.
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Posted by: sharron  (1 year ago)
Hello, and thank you very much for answering so quickly. Now I am really somewhat calmer than before. But I still have a few questions and I would be very thankful to you if you could answer these as well. You don’t exclude the possibility of a brain tumor completely, do you? Or how should I interpret your answer, “I wouldn’t worry about that?” I am just totally fearful of that; I also plan to have a nuclear magnetic resonance done this year.

As to my pelvis, yes, it seems as though something has not been right since the birth of my 19-month-old daughter, which is why I have to perform pelvic floor exercises. My masseuse is trying to find out what’s wrong with it right now, so it could be that something is awry.

If you think that it’s the tooth necks, then I wonder why my dentist didn’t address that. He did say that he can’t explain what is causing the pulling. He didn’t take any X-rays or anything like that. And then, there are also nerves in the face that are apparently connected with it!

Now, one more question: At the end of May, we’ll go on vacation by plane, and, if possible, I would prefer to have this done after my vacation, because I would like to enjoy my holiday and not fly while in pain, e.g., having just undergone a root canal treatment (which he has already proposed to do if it doesn’t go away). So, if I don’t do anything about it for so long, could it get worse than it already is??? I don’t want to experience any problems during my holiday.

I think those were really all the questions I wanted to ask.

Once again, thank you very much.

I hope you have nice day...
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Dear Sharron,

“You don’t exclude the possibility of a brain tumor completely, do you? Or how should I interpret your answer, “I wouldn’t worry about that?””

I can neither exclude nor suspect anything. I am not a neurosurgeon and, furthermore, I have neither examined you nor recorded your medical history. Normally, people with a brain tumor have different symptoms, such as nausea, dizziness, blood pressure oscillations, tinnitus, headaches... – or none at all...

However, I don’t think one should immediately assume the worst just because of a pinching sensation somewhere. This reminds me of the period when I was studying pathology… You get to know all kinds of diseases and of course, I had all of them...

“I am just totally fearful of that and I also plan to have a nuclear magnetic resonance done this year.”

Do you experience any other symptoms or only a pulling in the teeth?

“As to my pelvis - yes, it seems as though something has not been right since the birth of my 19-month-old daughter. That’s why I have to perform pelvic floor exercises. My masseuse is trying to find out what is wrong with it right now, so it could be that something is awry.”

As human beings, we are all awry.

“Now, one more question: At the end of May, we will go on a vacation by plane, and, if possible, I would prefer to have this done after the vacation, because I would like to enjoy my holiday and not fly while suffering pain, e.g., having just undergone a root canal treatment (which he has already proposed to do if it doesn’t go away). So, if I don’t do anything about it for so long, could it get worse than it already is??? I don’t want to experience any problems during my holiday.”

Since I don’t know what it is, I can’t tell you whether it could get worse or not...
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Posted by: sharron  (1 year ago)
Good evening – I can’t even catch up with you; your answers are so fast.

I want to have the nuclear magnetic resonance done because I suffer from frequent headaches and I finally want to know what’s going on and be able to sleep well again. However, the headaches could also come from the fact that I smoke a lot and that I don’t drink enough throughout the day. I already had a nuclear magnetic resonance done five years ago and there was a "focus of inflammation” in my head; I would like to know what happened to this “focus!”

I do experience dizzy spells sometimes, but as I said, I simply don’t drink enough...

But other than that, I’m doing fine – apart from the pulling in the teeth, that is.

But for my age (26), I see doctors quite often and have been operated on quite a lot. As I said, every ache and pain puts the fear of God in me. And I think I fall into the category of my mother. She also had a brain tumor and every disease imaginable such as asthma, pretty much every allergy there is, damaged spinal discs, an over – or under(?) – active thyroid, hay fever, etc. etc. etc.

We fought the tumor for a long time with her – more than 12 years – but in the end, the tumor won...

And so, since I saw that for 12 years day after day (seizures, too), I’m simply afraid.

I always hear that I should not concentrate so much on it; that I’m still so young and healthy and blah, blah, blah... But it’s not that easy to not think about something like that!

And since I’ve never had any problems with my teeth, I just wonder about that as well...

It will be okay!!! I wish you a nice evening...

Kind regards,

Sharron...
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Dear Sharron,

I’m not religious, but I remember a quote from my pathology studies;maybe it will help you to redirect your thoughts:

“The confrontation with suffering can be beneficial for the individual, because maybe the reason why our soul temporarily lives in a body is that this is the only opportunity for it to suffer and to express itself, so that it might experience the most important dimension of creation – LOVE.”

I am neither a psychiatrist nor a psychotherapist, but you are basically very aware of your "vices” – I’m referring to the issue of not drinking enough and smoking...

Sometimes, people don’t treat their bodies well because they want to get more attention. That would be quite understandable in your case, because for 12 years, all attention was focused on your mother.

Either way, dear Silberblitzfrau, I think you will soon find a solution to your discomfort – maybe a simple sealing of the teeth will do the trick.
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Posted by: sharron  (1 year ago)
Hello, I want to thank you once more. You really gave me courage to walk down the path a bit further...

I will definitely follow your advice. I have just made an appointment with my dentist for Monday. I will tell him about your suggestions and then we’ll see how we’ll proceed. I wish you a nice weekend...

Kind regards,

Sharron...
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Posted by: sharron  (1 year ago)
Hello,

I just want to inform you that I saw my dentist again two days ago and that he didn’t do anything, simply nothing!!!

He said I should wait a couple more weeks because maybe a nerve is pulling back, and then we will see. But the least he could have done would be to take an X-ray, right?

I also told him about all the things you suggested, but he said, “No, there would be other symptoms then.” And he had never heard of a pulling sensation in the teeth because a knock on the head and, by now, on the body!

I have one more question. About five weeks ago, I went to a different dentist and he made a new, large filling in the light incisor on the upper jaw because only half the tooth was left there (it broke off during a car accident seven years ago). Could it be that he may not have executed the filling correctly or that he injured the nerve during the drilling? I didn’t feel anything then, of course, as I had gotten an injection.

But my dentist doesn’t know that the filling next to the incisor (that is pulling so much) was replaced.

I’m sure he saw it, but he didn’t address it.

Kind regards,

Sharron...
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Dear Sharron,

Since you will have an MRT done soon, I would wait on the X-ray. Of course, it’s possible that the tooth was damaged during the placement of the filling, even though the dentist did everything right. The easiest way to check whether the tooth is sensitive is to apply a cold stimulus. If that's not the case, have an X-ray done. You can do this at home; just tap the tooth – if it feels different than the neighboring teeth, then that could be the one...
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Posted by: sharron  (1 year ago)
Hello...

What is an MRT? You mean the nuclear magnetic resonance, right? I won’t have that done until June.

The pulling tooth reacts more to cold than the other teeth. And which tooth do you mean I should tap – the one with the filling or the one that is pulling?

And what did you mean by, “Just tap the tooth – if it feels different than the neighboring teeth, then that could be the one...?” What could it be then?

Have a nice day.

Kind regards,

Sharron
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Dear Sharron!

“What is an MRT? Do you mean the nuclear magnetic resonance, right?”

Yes. One would probably not be able to recognize anything in an X-ray yet (too early). In an MRT, one would probably not be able to see anything regarding the tooth either....

“The pulling tooth reacts more to cold than the other teeth.”

Oh dear, that could be a hint that the tooth has suffered some damage, especially if the stimulus “lingers,” i.e., if the feeling of coldness remains even after the stimulus is removed.

“And which tooth do you think I should tap – the one with the filling or the one that is pulling?”

The one reacting longer to the cold and that you suspect is sending out the pain to the neighboring teeth. The question is whether you notice a reaction with the tapping test.

“And what did you mean by, “Just tap the tooth – if it feels different than the neighboring teeth, then that could be the one...?” What could it be then?”

That tooth could be responsible for your co-sensitivity in the upper jaw. A root canal treatment could possibly be the solution to your problem.
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Posted by: sharron  (1 year ago)
Good evening,

Maybe you will think I’m crazy now, but in about the last 3-4 days, the pulling sensation in the teeth has disappeared!!!

But when I tap my forehead – which I tried right away today – there is a slight pulling sensation in the tooth! Strange, isn’t it??

Sometimes, things are quite strange...

What do say about that?

Kind regards,

Sharron
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Dear Sharron!

That’s not so strange, really. The nerve supplying sensitivity to our face is the “nervus trigeminus.” “Sensitive” means that it’s responsible for your sensations. If it were injured, you would be able to move your musculature, but you wouldn’t feel anything anymore...

As soon as this nerve leaves the skull, it splits into three large branches. One branch supplies the forehead and everything above it; the center branch supplies the upper jaw, parts of the nose, eyes, and the teeth on the upper jaw, while the lower branch supplies the lower jaw.

So if you, e.g., "stimulate” the upper branch by tapping, it may lead to sensitive sensations in other areas of the face. Besides that, some of this nerve’s fibers intersect with the nerve on the opposite side in the skull. So it’s all not that strange.
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Posted by: sharron  (1 year ago)
Hello,

That’s something one has to know first – that there are nerves with branches, each supplying something else.

But all that sounds better than what my dentist is telling me, because he just says that there are no connections to the upper jaw and the forehead with regard to the nerve!!!

…So the exact opposite of what you are telling me and what you are proposing.

But just as you said, I also thought that it was some kind of nerve. I’m just wondering why it is that way, because I never experienced any trouble with my teeth before.

I hope you have a nice weekend...

Kind regards,

Sharron
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Dear Sharron,

Now you’re aware of it and have thus gained a bit more independence from us physicians.

Here’s an image of the interconnection of the individual branches of the “nervus trigeminus:”
Here’s an image of the individual branches with the skin areas supplied.
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