Dentinal Hypersensitivity The Enigma Unfolded

Detinal Hypersensitivity 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. 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 hypersensitivitythe latter term is the most accurate.