A pain free dentist should be your first point of contact, particularly if you have any sort of dental nerve damage. Your mouth is home to several nerves after all, and as they have a shorter distance to travel, pain impulses are more intense.

Dental Nerves and Injury

The mandibular nerve, which is situated on your lower jaw can be injured leading to side effects such numbness, tingling, pain and burning, or a combination of these symptoms. Usually dental nerve injuries to your mandibular nerve will result in symptoms to one side of the face.In some cases, if the lingual nerve is affected, it can lead to numbness of the tongue and lower lip.
When you’re dealing with any sort of dental nerve pain, sometimes if you’re lucky it passes after a while, but as a rule, it takes quite a while for your body to regenerate nerves.  For a few people, without oral surgery the pain is with them for life.

Dental Nerve Injuries: Other Causes

As a rule, injuries are the main cause of dental nerve injuries however, other times, tumors, and infections may be the causes.  Even injuries are actually quite rare, as the lower jaw bone is both thick and dense.  A block injection during a dental procedure is usually the triggering factor.  That’s why dental assistants as well as dentists are highly trained to avoid improper technique or operator error.
There are other causes of such injuries, and in the next article of this series, we will explore them, as well as treatment options.  For the moment, however, if you have any sort of dental nerve damage, or whether you have ondontophobia, going to the right dentist in Gilbert can make all of the difference in the world.
Gilbert Vista Dental Care
2451 East Baseline Road #210
Gilbert, AZ 85234
(480) 503-5467
https://drritapeck.com