A broken tooth has a funny way of slipping down your priority list. It hurts for a day or two. Then it settles. You chew on the other side and tell yourself you’ll deal with it next week.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
People expect a damaged tooth to keep throbbing. It often doesn’t. The nerve can calm down for a while, even though the crack is still there and bacteria keep finding tiny spaces to sneak in. You stop noticing it because your brain gets used to the feeling. That quiet period fools a lot of people.<\/p>\r\n
And once the inside of the tooth gets infected, you’re not looking at a small repair anymore. The problem has had time to settle in.<\/p>\r\n
\u2022 A rough edge that keeps catching your tongue. It sounds minor until you’ve dealt with it every meal.<\/p>\r\n
\u2022 Food getting trapped in the broken spot, and brushing never quite feels like enough.<\/p>\r\n
\u2022 Sometimes the tooth splits further after one normal bite, which feels unfair because nothing dramatic even happened.<\/p>\r\n
\u2022 The repair often ends up bigger than it would’ve been earlier. I really think this is the part people regret most.<\/p>\r\n
A broken tooth rarely stays in its own lane. You start chewing on one side without thinking. Your jaw works differently. Even your nearby teeth take on extra pressure because they’re picking up the work. It feels easier in the moment. It isn’t doing you any favors.<\/p>\r\n
Honestly, waiting because the pain faded is a bad gamble. Teeth don’t heal the way a scraped knee does. Once part of the structure is gone, it stays gone until it’s repaired.<\/p>\r\n
This isn’t only about money, even though that’s part of it. A small filling often turns into a crown. If the nerve dies, you may need root canal treatment before the tooth can even be rebuilt. And if the tooth can’t be saved anymore, you’re suddenly making much bigger decisions.<\/p>\r\n
So if you’ve been telling yourself the tooth has “settled down,” ask yourself one thing. Did it really get better, or did you just get used to living around it?<\/p>\r\n
A broken tooth has a funny way of slipping down your priority list. It hurts for a day or two. Then it settles. You chew on the other side and tell yourself you’ll deal with it next week.\u00a0 The pain doesn’t always stay loud People expect a damaged tooth to keep throbbing. It often doesn’t. … Continue reading What Happens If You Have a Broken Tooth for Too Long?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}