Okay so I had this happen last month where my two upper front teeth were feeing like they were making this clicking sound. Of course freaked out thinking they were loose or something! Went to the dentist for a checkup and asked about them but she said everything looked good and X-rays weren't needed st this time...clicking stopped. fastward to alittle over a month later. This past week Ive been having a pasty which is a sticky type that would get stuck on the back of those front teeth so of course I'd use my tongue to get rid of it. Then the clicking started again and of course freaked out. I went to the dentist the next day asking about a different issue but did bring up the clicking again. She looked at them closely and my gums and said everything looked okay...I then had an orthodontist concult (for possible braces again) and they did a full X-ray and he said my teeth looked good and the clicking was probably just normal shifting...but I had a cold smoothie alittle but ago and click!!!
Does it sound like everything is okay or am I just being extremely paranoid about this. My OCD is flaring and I'm having like a panic attack over this. Any ideas or help?! Please?
hi erin, well, i could sure tell the OCD had set in (ha ha i have it a bit, also) but if you hear clicking, it would have to mean the teeth are touching each other. so , the next time just take 2 fingers and see if you can wiggle those teeth.....try not to,,,just see if they wiggle. that could be the "shifting" theyre talking about....just a little movement. im getting elderly and i hear mine every now and then do that and its always after i drink something (mine are probably staring to loosen a bit) but dont you worry, you are young. now, go obsess over something else. lol good luck
Thanks for your opinion on that. I appreciate it! Yeah my mouth is really small so my teeth are close together (I did have braces and don't have my wisdoms teeth). The dentist looked at them and said they looked fine and strong attachments and my gums are alright. It just really freaked me out, she said it's more liking normal shifting. Altho those teeth feel a little more sensitive to hot/cold liquids
I also have a very small mouth and crowded teeth... sometimes clicking is due to them slightly shifting from pressure, like my tongue. Nothing to worry about.
Thank you so much for telling me that! Makes me feel a little better. I did make an apt to go in for her to take an X-ray with them. For piece of mind. Does anyone know any toothpaste or mouth wash that would be best to strengthen enamel and teeth?
I'm curious to see if you ever figured out what this was because I'm having the same problem in a few of my teeth, but I have no idea what it is and it gives me horrible anxiety when my teeth click. I saw my dentist and she told me that it was all in my head and that it was nothing, which really didn't help at all because she didn't really give too many suggestions to what this could be. I feel the clicking in 4 of my teeth on the right side of my mouth (one of the upper front teeth, one lower premolar, one upper premolar, and one upper back molar). What she did tell me was that she thought this might be from heavy bruxism, or my heavy teeth clenching/grinding at night. I did read somewhere that the clenching and grinding can weaken ligaments that attach your teeth to your bone, which causes them to become loose (this can be fixed over time if you can lessen the grinding). I am also aware that teeth have come natural mobility to them as well. I've read that some people who are undergoing orthodontic treatment also experience this teeth clicking sensation and that it goes away after a while, which lead me to think that maybe, my teeth are shifting from the grinding, also causing them to experience the clicking feelings?
I don't always having the clicking or popping sensation in my teeth. I've only felt it one time in my upper back molar and then never felt it again. But it consistently happens in my upper front tooth and my lower pre-molar for sure. It really freaks me out because I'm thinking my teeth are going to fall out or that I have an abbess or something because that's all that pops up when you google "teeth clicking" or "teeth popping." All of this makes me feel very paranoid and crazy. I'm only 25 years old and I'm worried about my teeth falling out.
You are just being paranoid xD Maybe the click of your teeth is just the sound your teeth makes. It could be just that you're teeth structure is unique and produces sounds.
I have exactly the same feeling in two of my front teeth. One has a large feeling and had root canal and its clicking constantly, then I got the two front ones which feel sensitive and then the one next to them is also clicking! The dentist said they are fine and not moving but I feel like they are. He said it could be from grinding your teeth but I don't think Iam doing that. So if anyone found out the problem I would love to know what is it? I am so worried they will be getting looser and have to be taken out. Freaking out!
Hi,
so this is happening to me too.
its driving me crazy, it all started when the dentist removed my baby tooth which was a molar. (i had no adult tooth below it im 24 and it cracked)
this was back in may 2020 its now nearly december 2020.
when my molar was removed the dentist put me on 3 lots of antibiotics over a five week period as i had burning in all if my top gums above my teeth, swollen gums and i couldnt even speak properly. (i still dont know why)
luckily after 8 weeks this went away.
But now when i eat or drink i noticed clicking in my front top teeth mainly my second right.
almost like if i push on my gum behind teeth its like there is trapped air moving along my gum line behind my teeth?
over the 6 months i kept going back to the dentist who kept saying it was down to teeth grinding and then said its all in my head. which it absolutley isnt.
i was given a retainer to wear to bed which changed nothing. had xrays which showed nothing.
my dentist sent me to see a specialist who done this cold test on my teeth which was fine they say they cant see anything wrong.
but this never used to happen untill my molar was removed.?
its driving me crazy does anybody know what it is and how to stop it ??
thanks in advance
p.s im back in the dentist on friday
I created an account on this site just to reply to you. I am having the exact exact problem, "almost like if i push on my gum behind teeth its like there is trapped air moving along my gum line behind my teeth?", this feeling is what I'm feeling too, and I also started feeling it after I got one of my molars removed. I asked some dentists as well, with no results. Some mentioned that it could be due to bruxism or a misaligned bite (my teeth aren't completely straight). I wore a night guard and it didn't help either, so I'm thinking it could be because of my bite. Maybe forces are applied in a wrong way when I bite? I'll ask an orthodontist soon.
Please tell me if you get any information, good luck!
(English is not my first language so I apologize for any mistakes made)
Omg the same this is happening to me right now. I do have a cavity in the corner my front tooth and when i flossed i realized that they shook a little bit, not with my fingers but with my tongue. I so scared because i don't want to lose my teeth, I'm 17. I'm too young to be toothless, I have been crying for three days, I haven't eaten because my teeth ache. I'm going to see a dentist but I'm scared she might say I have to take the tooth out.
I had a filling fall out. I went to the dentist for a cleaning and she looked at it and scheduled for me to get a new filling. A couple weeks before my appointment I had what I thought may be something my nerve was doing but it didn't hurt at all. She said that feeling would stop when I told her about it during the filling. Two weeks later it now seems like tiny bubbles, maybe like hydrogen peroxide feeling and sound is coming from that tooth. It makes the noise and feeling just a few times very quickly then stops. It might happen again 5 minutes or 5 hours but keeps doing it. Is this what everyone else is experiencing? Zero pain...just this popping/bubbling sound and feeling.
hello, please how it turned out with you? i have got similar problem, my front upper teeth feel loose and moving a little bit after i eat dairy product or sweets. and after a few minutes they are ok again.. i was at dentist and my gums, teeth and bone seemed to be ok. i had braces in the past. gums don't bleeding by brushing, i feel no pain. do you know what was wrong with your teeth? is it better now with you? what can i do? thank you for your answer and sorry for my english but it is not my first language..
hello, please how it turned out with you? i have got similar problem, my front upper teeth feel loose and moving a little bit after i eat dairy product or sweets. and after a few minutes they are ok again.. i was at dentist and my gums, teeth and bone seemed to be ok. i had braces in the past. gums don't bleeding by brushing, i feel no pain. do you know what was wrong with your teeth? is it better now with you? what can i do? thank you for your answer and sorry for my english but it is not my first language..
hi so I also have this, I've had braces not too long ago and never kept up with my retainer. I looked it up because I also noticed it again this morning. It told me that if you tend to clench your teeth at night it can cause pressure in your gums and your teeth will shift a tiny bit. it's more common in the morning, but it's called bruxism!! Try not to think about it too much, I know it's extremely hard but try to tell your OCD that it's normal for you to do that. especially if your ortho/dentist is saying all is well. hope it helps !
hows your teeth now? i have the same situation on my front teeth, i had root canal treatment last 2 weeks ago and after 8 days i can feel and hear that clicking sound on my root canal tooth.
Hi everyone,
It's hard to believe that there isn't someone out there that can help us all find some answers to what is happening with our teeth.
I am experiencing the same symptoms as most of you on this thread: popping and clicking teeth when eating, mostly in front teeth, can be experienced when pulling tongue over the teeth or when pulling lips over teeth and then pushing teeth forward with tongue or by pushing against the roof of the mouth close to the teeth. In addition my gums have a tingling or light burning sensation. This is has been going on for 4-5 months now and I'm gradually losing my head over it.
For me it started a few weeks after a bad night of clenching which left my jaw joint out of whack and my bite misaligned. This never healed properly and my bite remained misaligned. So when I ate, my canines were making contact before my molars. This bad contact may have shifted my teeth.
I've been to see many dentists and none of them can help me resolve it, diagnose it or identify the exact cause. Anyway on the advice of my dentist, I've had a new mouth guard made and have been wearing it for a couple of months but the clicking hasn't stopped. I can feel that the teeth that are clicking have more mobility than the teeth that aren't. And I'm guessing that the clicking is the tooth enamel rubbing against the adjacent tooth. I've by no means any expertise in teeth but another theory is that it could be the release of air between the tooth and the gum or the bone that holds it because I can hear the clicking when I push of the soft palate just behind the front teeth.
There must be someone out there in the dentistry world who has solved this mystery.
Like most of you here, this is the cause of some serious anxiety and the inability to find an answer despite consulting many professionals leads to a sense of hopelessness. It's hard to ignore as it's constantly there in my face reminding me that something's not right.
Has anyone found any answers?
I'm seeing more dentists in the coming weeks so I will post again if I learn anything.
Hello
I have very similar to you.
Root filling in top front clicks loads, but of late my bottom teeth at front click and also have a burning sensation.
I have a very small mouth and they have moved over my forties for sure.
I had an x ray and little bone loss but dentist didn't seem to think it was an issue, seemed to think was not unusual at 48 to have some.
I am never not thinking about it through absolutely distraught my teeth are getting looser I also have a very small palette so I am very thin boned around the mouth.
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I myself have been experiencing this and also had braces in the past from 2017-2018.
Recently, In early November 2021 I have had my essix retainers replaced as my last pair broke in my mouth.
Then not until the end of November to early December I had a shooting pain in my Lateral Incisor tooth in my upper jaw.
I always wear my retainers at night as I have anxiety that my teeth will move. But since I have had new ones they have been annoying ever since. They fit properly and they are easy to get in and out with no pain.
Anyways, when this was happening, the tooth went numb. I called up the dentist to get an appointment and when I went She examined and took x-rays and She said they look healthy and it's probably just tooth movement so She advised me to wear my retainers full time for a few days. After wearing my retainers for a few days the numbness stopped.
But, when I put pressure on the tooth with my thumb it went numb for a bit but only a small part of the tooth felt normal.
Now in January 2022, my tooth clicks and pops when I take out my retainer out in the morning.
It only popps and clicks when I but pressure on it with my tongue or when I brush.
Experiencing this did not help my anxiety and I still get anxiety about them falling out but thats because I am getting paranoid as I tend to be a bit of a Hypochondriac by Googling for answers.
I don't know why and what causes it but it is annoying.
Then again, if it is natural as it has been said by your orthodontist, their is nothing for me or you to worry about.
Hope you have a nice day and I hope it stops for both of us.