Do you feel a stab of pain whenever you sip a cold drink or take a bite of hot pizza? Then you are suffering from dental hypersensitivity, a.k.a. tooth sensitivity.
Tooth sensitivity refers to the sharp pain that occurs after consuming foods or liquids. It is an overstated response of tooth nerves to hot, cold, sweet and sour stimuli. Tooth sensitivity can affect one tooth or several.
According to the Journal of Conservative Dentistry, though tooth sensitivity may affect you at any age, those who mostly suffer from this problem are 20 to 50.