Dentists: my back teeth get very sensitive when I bite/chew chocolate? This only happens with chocolate.?

Question

Ok, silly question.
When I bite chocolate with my back teeth, they get very sensitive and start to hurt a lot.
I've found that this doesn't happen EVERY time but around 75% of the time, it will.
My teeth could get brushed a bit more often and I was using toothpaste for sensitive teeth for a while but that didn't work.

I was eating a chocolate biscuit today and I found that it happened even when I bit down using my front teeth!
I wish it didn't happen to such a good treat =D
What type of toothpaste could I use to make it go away?
What can I do to get the pain to go away while eating chocolate?

And it happens even when I drink cold chocolate milk.
I know it's not a sensitivity to cold or hot things because I can vet easily bite down in an ice-cream or chew on some hot meat.

Answer 1

Chocolates / sugar is converted to acid, that causes sensitiviy. You must also check if you have cavities, gum recession or lowering of gums and root exposure, abraded or damaged enamel. Extremes of temperature change also casuses, especially on metallic fillings

Answer 2

I have the exact same problem! Thing is, only when I eat certain kinds of chocolate - coating chocolate. There's a difference. Real chocolate is produced using cocoa butter, and a longer 'conching' (mixing, basically,) process that leaves the end product very smooth. Coating chocolate, which hurts our teeth, is 'fake' chocolate - oils and emulsifiers instead of all natural cocoa. It's cheaper, and used in alot of candy bars. It's these impurities that are getting past tooth enamel through what amount to micro-cavities - the same problem that causes discomfort for hot or cold in some people.
Instead of giving up on chocolate, start keeping tabs on what you're eating when it hurts and when it doesn't. For example, when I eat a Hershey's bar, (real chocolate,) everything's fine. When I eat a Caramilk, (coating chocolate,) my teeth hurt. And then just steer away from the ones that bother your teeth. People will come to think you're an elite chocolate connoisseur! Fun!

Answer 3

Chocolate has acids in it and when you chew that is what causes sensitivity to your teeth. You may have cavities in the back and need to get it checked out.

Answer 4

well any time I've ever had a tooth that hurts when I eat chocolate, it's turned out to have a cavity in it. You really need to go to the dentist to make sure this isn't the case with you.

Answer 5

I just got me cavities filled 2 weeks ago and I still have chocolate sensitivity and cold as well. I thought it was cavities before but what now?

Answer 6

Simple: stop eating chocolate until you see a dentist who could tell you what's going on.
Good luck!!! ^_^

Answer 7

maybe your teeh get really irrated with chocolate and so wen your teeth get like that it is probably to much of it at once your teeth cant handle special thing like that