You’re curled up in your favorite armchair, ready to enjoy a cold, tasty treat after a long day. But this ends up being more of a struggle than you bargained for! As soon as the ice cream touches your teeth, pain shoots through your dental roots and ripples over your gums.

This is tooth sensitivity: a situation where teeth are tender to overly hot and cold sensations. It can be extremely bothersome, so patients often have a hard time knowing whether their experience is a dental emergency or not. Keep reading, and this post will help you learn how to tell the difference.

Let’s say you chip a tooth – it’s not loose, and it hasn’t fallen out of your mouth, but a heavy impact or hard object has caused some breakage. Would you know what to do?

If not, don’t worry! Not many people do. This post will walk you through the best way to proceed so that if this dental emergency ever happens to you or a loved one, you’ll be ready to leap into action.