Everyone knows that teeth are important to us. They are not only responsible for chewing food, but affect our facial aesthetics. But What should you do when your teeth loosen? Following are some causes, effects, remedies and instructions of tooth loosening.

First, what is tooth loosening?

It means that looseness of your teeth exceeds normal physiological range. Healthy teeth have a certain degree of activity, primarily horizontal. The movement of teeth, if no more than 0.02mm, is not easily identified. When the scope of teeth moving is bigger than normal physiological range as a result of some dental diseases or other factors, we will refer to it as tooth loosening.

Second, what are the negative effects of loosened teeth?

 Loose teeth may cause toothache, periodontal inflammation and tooth loss etc., and further exert an adverse effect on your chewing function and cause indigestion. Here are several reasons that may result in loosening of the teeth.

1, Chronic and progressive tooth loosening is often caused by periodontitis.

2, Bruxism and tightening teeth cause traumatic effect on teeth occlusion, and in the long run, will give rise to loose teeth.

3, Tooth loosening may be caused by sudden biting of hard food and some foreign injuries.

4, Before the replacement of deciduous teeth, the absorption of deciduous roots occurs in children. This may cause loosening of the teeth.

Third, what should you do to treat tooth loosening?

1, In most cases, loosened teeth are a result of periodontitis. You need to go to a dental professional to remove the surrounding inflammation-causing things like tartar and plaque to ease the inflammation and alleviate the absorption of alveolar bone.

2, Loose teeth caused by inflammation of apical periodontitis should at first have a root canal treatment to deal with the inflammation.

3, The excessively loose tooth should be extracted if it causes inflammation and looseness of other teeth.

4, It is not a concern for a kid growing permanent teeth to experience tooth loosening. However, if the permanent teeth have erupted, the deciduous teeth still do not fall off, which may cause abnormal position of the permanent teeth. Then the loose deciduous teeth should be removed as soon as possible.

Fourth, Here are some instructions for you.

Special care should be taken for tooth loosening occurring in the aged, because the falling off of teeth may cause asphyxia.

Loosening of the teeth may happen to menopausal women due to osteoporosis of alveolar bone, thus an anti-osteoporosis treatment is needed.    

Tooth loosening really matters, immediate medical treatment is necessary.