Excessive Scaling Or Am I Being Oversensitive?

That is odd.. To have teeth change becuase of a routine cleaning. I have never seen this or actually heard of it honestly.. I would say call your dentist and tell them what happened, and find out why. You have a right to be happy with any medical service you recieve.

As I understood you just feel yourself unussual. You haven't still used to your teeth without tartar. There is impossible to dantist ir hygienist to clean your teeth in such a way that they changed their countures

I just read the post about feeling like the teeth had been changed by a dental cleaning and I do believe it is a case of having the calculus (tartar) removed. Here is how that fits what is being discribed. All our lives our salivary minerals try to remineralise are teeth but for most of use we make more than we need so it piles up and creates a layer of build up, since saliva pools during our upright peiod of the day (and the longest appose to sleep hours) we build first and the most on the lower inside starting at the front and building toward the back and then at the top back outside and building forward. This layer hold bacterial laiden plague at the gumline and the combined irritation of the bacteria and the solidifide mass of minerals causes the gums to recede. Now come the part when you clean it off. First up to this point it has been covering and insulating the now exposed root from the recession and thinnest enamal at that junction so no air and cold food and liquid could reach that surface. Now we removed it and two things happen right away, first with the removal of the mass out teeth fee skinny and like a huge space has been created between the teeth! And secondly the now newly exposed root and line of recessionary space along the gumline is super sensetive to touch and temperature (especially cold). So when you work in the dental business you see and hear about this complaint quite frequently. The quick fix is to use toothpaste for sensetive teeth (make sure it has no whitening or tarter formula in it at all since that just makes the problem worse). Brush gently, avoid acidic foods like oj, grapefruit, tomamoto juice etc and if you know you grind your teeth, get a plastic mouth guard since grinding also aggrevates sensetive teeth. Now I will agree that some dentist and dental hygienist do get a little aggressive in their efforts to clean off the tartar layer from the teeth without being very careful at the gumline and thus can lend to some of the over sensetivity but it takes many years of repeated root planing to accually change the shape of the root (and the enamal is the hardest thing in the body and can only have its shaped changes with a rotory diamond burr or drill bit). So as a daily practicing dental hygienist for the past 15 years specialising in senstivity problems (and having helped hundreds to find comfort from hyper touch and temp sensetivity) thats my take on what I have heard here. My two cents for what it is worth! :idea: