1Professor, Department of Periodontics, Meghna Institute of Dental Sciences, Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
2Professor & Head, Department of Oral Medicine & Maxillofacial Radiology, D.J. College of Dental Sciences & Research, Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh
3Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Medicine & Maxillofacial Radiology, D.J. College of Dental Sciences & Research, Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh,
4Reader, Department of Periodontics, Meghna Institute of Dental Sciences, Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh, India,
5Lecturer, Army College of Dental Sciences, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Online published on 17 November, 2012.
It is true that the teeth of man have been hurting for many thousands of years. The causes of the pain and effective methods to relieve or prevent the pain tend to follow traditional routes like random treatment, starting with materials of natural origin and then work by the aggressively curious, the intelligent and the innovative to better understand the physiologic basis of the cause of the pain. The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight to the various non-fluoride treatment modalities of tooth hypersensitivity and the advantages and disadvantages of specific materials.
Hypersensitivity, Non-fluoride, Pain, Dentin
