Loose Teeth

You feel it while eating, while biting down, sometimes already while brushing your teeth — a tooth gives way. It wobbles. Not like a child losing a milk tooth, knowing that something new is coming. But as an adult who notices: something is coming loose that should be firmly anchored. The hold is gone. In the jaw — and not only there.

Dentistry has clear explanations: periodontitis, bone loss, receding gums. And these explanations are real. But the psychosomatic perspective asks an additional question that is no less valid: why is something loosening that anchors you? Why is what gives you bite losing its hold? What in your life is no longer firmly anchored — because you can no longer feel the ground beneath yourself?

Loose teeth are no coincidence in the mouth — they are a signal that something fundamental has begun to waver.