Home Remedies for Tooth Sensitivity

Causes of Tooth Sensitivity :

It can be due to gum disease, cracked tooth, acid erosion, tooth bleaching, using hard bristle toothbrush etc.

Tips :

• If your tooth are sensitive, don’t use toothpastes with baking-soda/whitening ones.
• Use desensitizing toothpastes like Sensodyne. Massage it especially on sensitive tooth with your finger. Don’t rinse off immediately.
• You can make use of high fluoride mouthwashes, swish it around teeth for about half a minute. After that no need to use water.
• Until your tooth sensitivity is cured, avoid eating very hot or very cold.

Some Handy Home Remedies for getting relief from tooth sensitivity :

• Sometimes pressing ice cubes over your cheek just above the sensitive tooth can help. If it helps you can repeat it 3-4 times a day. DO NOT apply ice directly to your affected tooth.
• You can mix one tablespoon of mustard oil & one tablespoon of rock salt and massage this paste on sensitive teeth and leave for about 5 minutes. Then rinse with water.
• You can prepare a paste of pepper & salt using lukewarm water and apply it on sensitive tooth for some minutes.
• SALT WATER : You can mix two tablespoon salt in a glass of lukewarm water and swish it in your mouth (for about half a minute) in morning and before bed.
• CLOVE : You can apply some drops of clove oil on your sensitive teeth to get relief from pain.
• GARLIC : You can chew a clove of garlic for 10min followed by rinsing your teeth with salt water.
• ONION : You can chew a piece of onion for some minutes followed by rinsing your teeth with lukewarm salt-water.

If pain still persists, make sure to contact doctor.

P.S. : Prevention is better than cure. So do follow tooth care routine.

Essential Tooth Care Habit :

• Do not brush your tooth hard while brushing.
• Brush two times a day, before bed at night and in morning. Do not skip brushing before going to bed so as to keep your mouth free of germs and bad odor.
• Make use of baking soda to whiten your teeth. Its effective for whitening teeth. Read more on White Teeth Home Remedies.

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