Guides.

Longer explainers for a decision you are about to make.

• Perimenopause, dry mouth and enamel: a daily routine that protects both
  No toothpaste treats a dry mouth, in perimenopause or at any other age, so the one to choose for a dry mouth with sensitive teeth is a paste that leaves fluoride on the enamel, does not sting a dry lining and carries an
• Sharp and brief, or dull and lingering: the pain pattern that tells sensitivity from something else
  Sharp, brief pain that arrives with a trigger and is gone within seconds is the pattern of sensitivity from exposed dentine; pain that lingers, comes on by itself, wakes you, sits in one tooth that hurts to bite on, or c
• What a dentist checks for sensitive teeth: the examination, explained
  A dentist checking sensitive teeth is mostly looking for everything else the pain could be — decay, a crack, a leaking or broken filling, an inflamed nerve, inflamed gums — and for whatever has left the dentine exposed,