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A loose permanent tooth feels alarming, and for good reason. Unlike baby teeth, adult teeth aren't supposed to move. Feeling that familiar wiggle in a tooth that should be firmly in place tends to send most people straight to a search engine looking for answers.The honest answer is that a loose adult tooth is a…

Tooth pain that shows up specifically when you bite or chew is different from a constant ache. It tends to be sharp, sudden, and sometimes hard to pin down to a single tooth. That specificity is actually useful, because pain triggered by pressure usually points to one of a handful of causes that a dentist…