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For a cavity to cause pain, it must touch a nerve. Since the only nerves in teeth are deep inside it, you don't notice any pain until the cavity actually gets near the nerve.

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Because they are bad guys inside your cavity such as bacteria hitting it with a hammer chipping it out.....I'm experiencing a bad toothache right now

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It hurts becouse the driling power presures down on ur tooth and makes it wiggle when ur tooth isn't loos

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For a cavity to cause pain, it must touch a nerve. Since the only nerves in teeth are deep inside it, you don't notice any pain until the cavity actually gets near the nerve.

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