Dentin hypersensitivity
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Dentin hypersensitivity (DH,[4] DHS[5]) is dental pain which is sharp in character and of short duration, arising from exposed dentin surfaces in response to stimuli, typically thermal, evaporative, tactile, osmotic, chemical or electrical; and which cannot be ascribed to any other dental disease.[5][3][6][7]
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Other names | Sensitive dentin,[1] dentin sensitivity,[2] cervical sensitivity,[3] cervical hypersensitivity[3] |
Specialty | Dentistry |
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A degree of dentin sensitivity is normal, but pain is not usually experienced in everyday activities like drinking a cooled drink. Therefore, although the terms dentin sensitivity and sensitive dentin are used interchangeably to refer to dental hypersensitivity,[3] the latter term is the more accurate.