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Chapter-26 Tooth Hypersensitivity

BOOK TITLE: Textbook of Operative Dentistry

Author
1. Garg Nisha
2. Garg Amit
ISBN
9788184487756
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/11019_26
Edition
1/e
Publishing Year
2010
Pages
8
Author Affiliations
1. Ex-Resident, Government Dental College, Patiala, Presently at, Manav Rachna Dental College, Faridabad, Haryana, India, Manav Rachna Dental College, Faridabad, Haryana, India, Government Dental College, Patiala, Sri Sukhmani Dental College and Hospital, Dera Bassi, Mohali, Punjab, India, Bhojia Dental College and Hospital, Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, India
2. Government Dental College, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India, Manav Rachna Dental College, Faridabad, Haryana, India, Sri Sukhmani Dental College and Hospital, Dera Bassi, Mohali, Punjab, India, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, India, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, New Hyde Park, New York, USA
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Abstract

Dentin hypersensitivity is defined as “sharp, short pain arising from exposed dentin in response to stimuli typically thermal, chemical, tactile or osmotic and which cannot be ascribed to any other form of dental defect or pathology”. The exogenous stimuli may include thermal, tactile or osmotic changes. While extreme stimuli can make all the teeth hurt, the term hypersensitivity means painful response to stimuli not normally associated with pain. Tooth hypersensitivity can fit the criteria of several pain terms described by Merskey (1979), for the International Association for the study of pain (IASP). Pain is described “as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.”

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