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I brush my teeth everyday. How ever I have very weak teeth and have been in a few accidents in which I broke my teeth. The other day I was eating peanuts and it made holes in my teeth but it did not hurt. The tips of my teeth just started breaking as if my teeth are hollow and that the out side is just a casing.
Well, hello, friend! I shattered 2 teeth with those dang hard pretzel nuggets. I also found my teeth that broke seemed to be mostly just shells.
The outside of the teeth is hard enamel, which is of varying strength based on the person, eating habits, hygiene, and so on. The interior of the tooth is a much softer dentin and pulp. What happens is, a hole is worn in the enamel (a cavity), it can be a tiny hole that you can't even see. Then the decay sets in inside the tooth and things go from bad to worse fast. Decay to the pulp usually means the tooth is 'dead' or near dead, which is probably what happened to you. Tooth decay is something that first of all is not noticeable until it's too late (the cavity has begun), and if you don't go to the dentist regularly will likely not be detected until it's far beyond a simple fix. Your nerve is in the pulp area of the tooth so when you begin to feel pain, it means the decay has gone to the pulp. If your tooth is broken and you're not feeling pain, the tooth is definitely dead and likely died long before it broke. The structure of your tooth could only hold out so much longer, sort of just like a building collapsing.
I'm not a dentist, I just play one on TV. Nah, I just paid attention when I ended up in the dentist's office and got the lecture of my life. Ironically, that's what kept me from returning and keeping up with my dental work. I don't care to sit through a lecture and feel belittled and berated and embarrassed.
I hope that helps.
I was just about to ask. You certainly know a lot for not being one. Thank you for explaining that.
Glad I could help. Unfortunately all you can do really is get to the dentist, which is expensive and not fun. If you can afford it, then go ASAP because things will only get worse and more expensive to fix. My teeth that broke, I didn't see or feel any cavity or pain, ever. I thought I was OK and that's partly why I put off going to the dentist.
I agree with dirtybirdy. There's really not a lot we can do unless one of us happens to be a dentist.
Go see one, this isn't good.
The only way to strengthen your teeth is to cut down on all the sugar you eat, I also had weak teeth when I ate alot of sugar, I've since spent nearly 10 thousand dollars getting my teeth fixed, I'm on a diet now and I hardly ever eat anything with sugar in it.
You can't strengthen your teeth once they are decayed. Yes, get them fixed and then take very good care of your new ones, but there's nothing you can do on your own to improve your situation.
You can sorta abate the situation by being extra vigilant with dental hygiene, but not improve it.
Yeah but you said you spent $10,000 on getting them fixed so, uh, you have new ones and you started over fresh. And crowns and veneers and the like don't rot like enamel does.
veneers and crowns are the same thing, i haven't had crowns done yet, but i'm having root canals done at the moment.
Exactly...they will tell you your crown or veneer will last at least 10 years, it's not the same as natural enamel. And especially not the same if you have "new" teeth and are starting over fresh and taking care of them and cutting down on sugar and the like. Enamel=natural, veneer=man-made. Very different.
Basically, you CAN'T improve your dental situation, you can only keep it the same at best on your own. And that's at best. If decay has set in, there's little you can do about it, you can only slow it barely with extremely vigilant dental hygiene.