Tooth Resorption

Your teeth are dissolving — from the inside out. Not through decay, not through external force, but through a process in which your own body begins to break down the tooth substance. Tissue that should be hard and enduring is quietly and gradually resorbed. Sometimes you only notice when the dentist sees on an X-ray what has long since begun.

Medically there are various explanations — trauma, inflammation, orthodontic stress. But a question remains that reaches beyond dentistry: why does a body turn against its own structure? Why does it break down what gives it hold?

The psychosomatic perspective hears in this symptom a deep exhaustion. A person who has stopped carrying themselves.