What causes toothache when drinking cold water

Drinking cold water toothache is more reasons, such as there may be hidden cracks, may also be periodontitis, dental caries, wedge-shaped defects and other causes.
1. Cryptic fracture: cryptic fracture is a kind of fine crack on the teeth, the patient may not be able to observe, but this kind of crack can often penetrate into the dentin structure, stimulated by cold water can appear pain or pain intensification performance.
2. Periodontitis: If you suffer from periodontitis and more serious, it will also cause local gum recession, so that the root of the tooth is exposed for hot and cold stimuli will be more sensitive, so drink cold water can also stimulate the localization of the toothache symptoms.
3. Dental caries: If there are dental caries and deep cavities, the normal structure of the teeth have been damaged, the development of dentin layer will be more sensitive to food impaction, hot and cold stimuli, easy to appear toothache.
4. Wedge-shaped defect: when there is a wedge-shaped defect, dentin exposure, drinking cold water will stimulate the pulp, resulting in toothache symptoms.
In addition, drinking cold water toothache symptoms, there may be a number of other causes, it is recommended that patients should go to the hospital in a timely manner, in order to clarify the cause of the disease, the correct treatment is good.