Diseases or changes
- Deposits on the teeth, e.g., tartar.
- Noncarious dental defects:
- Abrasion (loss of tooth structure due to abrasion by foreign bodies).
- Attrition (abrasion due to contact with adjacent or antagonistic tooth surfaces).
- Hereditary developmental disorders (tooth hard tissues not formed properly, abnormalities in tooth number and shape).
- Wedge-shaped defect (probably caused by incorrect loading and resulting bending and tensile stress in the area of the tooth neck).
- Developmental disorders of the teeth
- Erosions (due to frequent exposure to acid on clean tooth hard substances).
- Acquired hypo- or paraplasia (local trauma; disturbances in mineral metabolism due to hormonal disturbances, general infectious diseases or drug influence).
- External or internal odontogenic resorptions (dissolution of tooth substances, e.g., root dissolution due to periodontal inflammation or granulomas)
- Mechanical wear
- Pain can also be triggered by other causes, such as.
- Inflammation of the periodontium (gingivitis, periodontitis).
- Ostitis, osteomyelitis
- Pulpitis
- Pain in the context of craniomandibular dysfunction (eg, temporomandibular joint disorders).
- Hypersensitive necks of teeth
- Places with less pronounced mineralization. These spots thus appear whiter, so-called white spots.
- Discoloration of the tooth substances, for example, due to plaque from smoking, tea, red wine, etc..
