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Tooth movement bad effects
Hii, I have 2 questions:
1) Can pushing your tooth using tongue move it?
2) If it can, will the movement be rapid enough to cause death of the tooth?
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Hello dear,
Hope you are doing good. Generally our tooth has minor movements and that is completely normal. Pushing your teeth with tongue intentionally or as a habit may lead to flaring up of the front teeth. If you feel like you are doing it subconsciously, please be careful and try to avoid the habit. Otherwise pushing of teeth by tongue is not that much forceful and this will not definitely cause death of the tooth.
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Hello dear
Please be advised
See tongue had proven to provide movements to teeth by either tongue thrusting or thumb sucking
Death of tooth can't occurs.
However for further details you can consult me
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Dr. Somesh B Mane
Cosmetic/Aesthetic Dentist
2 yrs exp
Navi Mumbai
Yes movement of teeth due to tongue is possible provided that the force is greater which happens most of the time when patient has macroglossia.
But don't worry Moving your tooth with tongue won't lead to the death of the teeth (necrosis of pulp)
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if your queries are resolved then I am glad.
if you want to make sure if you have macroglossia (tongue size is greater than normal) then you can visit my clinic and have an assessment I will be glad to help you.
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it's always better not to push teeths with tongue 😁
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