Your Dentist Can't Fix Your Tooth Sinus Problems
Posted: Thursday, June 17, 2010
by Scott Siegel
Intergalactic Products LLC
All of a sudden you have bad pain in your upper teeth. Most specifically it is one of your back upper teeth. The usual routine would be to try to ignore it for a while and see if it goes away. Take some pain killers, Advil or Tylenol and get through it.
When that doesn't work the next step is to make an appointment with your dentist. You go to the dentist and he checks out everything and he tells you everything looks normal. He can't see anything wrong. The reason is, your dentist can't fix your tooth sinus problems.
Had you told your dentist that, he would have already had an idea about what was really causing your tooth pain. Certainly, after he examined you and found no physical problems with your mouth, would have suspected that you might have pain from another source, a sinus infection. If he suspected that, he would have told you to go see your regular doctor to get relief.
You have sinuses that are literally on top of and behind your upper teeth. Those sinus cavities can easily influence your teeth as they are in such close proximity to the nerves that run into your teeth. When there is severe pain and pressure in those sinus cavities it can easily cause the pain in your teeth that you are experiencing.
Your sinuses help to protect your respiratory system by constantly trapping foreign particles and bacteria before they get into your lungs. It traps these irritants in the mucus that lubricates the walls of your sinuses. As long as your sinuses can drain properly so that it can continuously remove the mucus they stay healthy and everything is fine.
If there is a blockage that prevents the sinus from draining, then the contaminated mucus builds up in the sinus cavity. The mucus builds up and begins to exert pressure. That is the pressure you feel in your cheeks. The trapped bacteria starts to multiply and the bacteria count can easily increase to hundreds of thousands in a very short time.
When this happens you have a full blown case of sinusitis. If it is the sinus cavities near your teeth that become infected this can easily give you tooth pain. In general there is usually no actual physical damage being done to the teeth. It is just pain being transmitted through the nerves to the teeth.
It is conceivable that an infection could spread from the sinus area into the teeth themselves but this occurrence is rare. You are just feeling the side effects of a sinus infection when your teeth hurt.
The good news is, once the sinus infection is treated properly and subsides, the tooth pain will also subside. This does not mean you should not go to your dentist if your teeth hurt, it is only means that in some instances it is your regular doctor that will need to treat you for your sinusitis in order to be rid of your tooth pain caused by your sinus problems.
Scott Siegel is a researcher, author and editor. He has done extensive research on the tooth sinus problems connection. For more great information on how to solve your sinus problems visit http://www.sinusprobleminfo.com
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