Eating popsicles toothache may be due to tooth sensitivity, dental caries, pulpitis and other reasons.
1. Tooth sensitivity: The temperature of popsicles is too low, and it is easy to irritate teeth when eating popsicles. If the patient’s teeth are sensitive, it will cause irritating toothache. It is usually a sudden, intermittent pain, which can be relieved by eliminating the stimulus.
2. Dental caries: Dental caries is mainly caused by bacterial infection, improper diet and other factors. Early caries will appear on the surface of the yellow-brown plaque, the middle cavity is more sensitive to external stimuli, teeth by cold, hot, sour, sweet and other stimuli can cause toothache, remove the stimulus can gradually relieve the symptoms. The symptoms can be gradually relieved after removing the stimulus. In the later stage, the carious cavity will be bigger and bigger, and the pain will be more obvious after external stimulus.
3. Pulpitis: Pulpitis is mainly caused by bacterial infection. It is often manifested as pain after hot or cold stimulation or pain after eating sweet and sour food, and usually the pain is aggravated at night, and the pain can not be localized, and the severe pain usually radiates to the head and face.
Eating popsicles toothache may have other causes, we recommend that patients go to the regular hospital dentistry for further examination, according to the cause of the targeted treatment.