Healing Dental Pulp, Nerves, and Tooth Enamel?

Question

If your nerve cells die in the pulp, I read that your tooth could start to discolor. If you were to bring back those nerves would the discoloration disappear?

If nerve damage were to happen to your teeth, how would one go about fixing it?


Is there any way of regrowing tooth enamel? When we crack our knuckles, after a period of time our knuckles get bigger because of the extra bone that was generated to heal the cracked knuckles. Why doesn't that happen to teeth?

Answer 1

Once your nerves in your pulp are exposed to caries and/or die, the preferred course of treatment would be a root canal. This is because in your pulp, there are only blood vessels and nerve fibers, and those nerve fibers can only sense one thing: PAIN. There is no way for those fibers to regenerate if a significant amount of exposure has occured. In some cases, where the pulp has undergone significant decay/damage over a prolonged period of time, the tooth can begin to change color. There is no way to bring those nerves back, as yet, although future stem cell research may one day solve that problem. Once that discoloration is there, it's there. Teeth can either be bleached (either internally (after a root canal) or externally, although that may not be very effective) or have a crown placed over it, which is the usual option after a root canal.

If nerve damage happens to your teeth, fixing it would be a root canal.

While there is no way to grow MORE enamel, enamel can be recalcified. When you go to your dentist every since months, and radiographs are taken, we look to see if there is any indication of decay. From the radiographs, we often see signs of decay, but sometimes that decay is small enough, and only in the enamel, not touching the next layer of dentin. If that is the case, the tooth can make that decay go away, as long as the patient brushes/flosses regulary and gets flouride treatment. While enamel can regenerate, the next inner layer of dentin, which is more porous, cannot. Once decay strikes that layer, a work must be done on the tooth.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Once a nerve is damaged it doesn't repair itself.
Tooth enamel is not bone, it will not regrow.

You will need a crown or veneer to make the tooth look white again.
Crown would be less expensive, same thing they do after a root canal where the nerve is removed from the tooth.

Answer 4

I would look into seeing another dentist. My daughter knocked her tooth loose a few months ago and the first dentist I took her to was horrible, he said her tooth would turn black and fall out. I immediately took her to a special pediatric dentist and she did a great job. She took x-rays right away and it was not traumatic for my daughter. She did not chip her tooth like your daughter so all we could do was wait to see if it would stay in place. Luckily it did, her tooth is a little duller than the others now and that is something we can have fixed now. But they should be able to fix the chipped part right away. The dentist said if she would have chipped it they would have fixed that. She might have to wait to see if it discolors then they can fix that later. Best of luck with your little one.

Answer 5

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Answer 7

Acupuncture, which involves inserting thin needles into various points on your body, may reduce peripheral neuropathy symptoms.

Answer 8

well if your nevers dies then your tooth would discolor because it would no longer be alive and turn black and dead .. then fall out maybe