Do you notice your teeth are more sensitive in the summer? Learn about hot and cold tooth sensitivity, from a dental expert. For most of us, summer is the season of vacations, warm weather, and time ...

There’s a special type of pain when something that is just too cold hits your teeth. This pain is so visceral, medical textbooks written throughout human history have recounted tales of a “tooth worm, ...

You feel it when you sip a hot drink or bite into a cool dessert: an ache, an acute stab of pain. Even a sharp breath of cold air might trigger a twinge. “Any tooth sensitivity is trying to tell us ...

Tooth-worm's elusive identity revealed - it's odontoblasts [Nicholas Spinelli] An international team of scientists has linked the sharp stabbing tooth pain that some of us might experience when eating ...

For most of us, summer is the season of vacations, warm weather, and time outdoors. However, for some folks, they face a dreaded season of increased teeth sensitivity. In fact, 11.5 percent of the ...

Odontoblasts, the cells that form a tooth's dentin, have a newly discovered function: Sensing cold, which can trigger pain in teeth; but scientists have also found a way to block the pathway to ...

Why so sensitive? An oral care expert breaks it down. If you’ve experienced tooth sensitivity, you’re well acquainted with the feelings of sharp pain or achy discomfort when you try to do some of the ...

As temperatures drop, many people with sensitive teeth experience increased pain. Often times when patient’s teeth already hurt, exposing them to cold winter air can be just as painful as consuming ...

For people with tooth decay, drinking a cold beverage can be agony. "It's a unique kind of pain," says David Clapham, vice president and chief scientific officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...

An ion channel called TRPC5 acts as a molecular cold sensor in teeth and could serve as a new drug target for treating toothaches. For people with tooth decay, drinking a cold beverage can be agony.

Researchers report in Science Advances that they have uncovered a new function for odontoblasts, the cells that form dentin, the shell beneath the tooth's enamel that encases the soft dental pulp ...

The best way to deal with pain in your teeth from cold weather is to take preventative measures. Are you wondering when spring weather will make an appearance? With cold temperatures your teeth may be ...