Extreme Tooth pain After drinking Wine

I have found a solution – that does not involve giving up white wine. 

I had the exact same problem as you – I’m fine after drinking beer or other spirits, but if I drank white wine or Strongbow apple cider my teeth would become unbearably sensitive.  If I ate anything, it felt like I was chewing on tinfoil for at least 2 days afterwards.  I absolutely love white wine, so giving it up completely was not an option.  I had read elsewhere that white wine is highly acidic, and the acid softens the enamel and causes the calcium to leach out of the teeth.  Saliva normally helps to remineralize tooth enamel, but drinking alcohol lowers saliva production.  The article suggested eating cheese while drinking white wine, but unfortunately you can’t always bring a cheese tray with you everywhere. 

So I went to the local grocery store and bought a bottle of “liquid calcium and magnesium citrate.”  The first time I used it, I actually mixed a tablespoon into a bottle of white wine, but it settled to the bottom and needed to be constantly shaken – not only that, but the wine looked curdled and rather unappetizing.  So the next time, I was able to find a very compact spray bottle that slipped easily into a pocket, and I filled it with the liquid calcium and magnesium citrate, and would spritz and swish it around in my mouth for a minute, before and after each glass of white wine.  After drinking white wine for hours I was starving so I ordered some nachos, which would normally send my teeth into a tailspin, but surprise-surprise, I experienced absolutely NO pain!  It has worked for me ever since.  

Please let me know if this works as well for all you white wine lovers, as it did for me.  Cheers!        

I’ve included links to the liquid calcium and magnesium citrate and the spray bottles below…

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I have exactly the same problem. Pain in my root canal tooth after drinking beer or wine.

If you are having pain when you drink wine you have a contamination or something to that affect. It is best to get it dealt with before it gets excessively genuine. The torment you are having is one of two things. It's either murdering the microbes and that is the difficult sensation you are feeling, or it is simply bringing about you torment for no reason, and the disease is excessively genuine for simply liquor to do anything.

I am having a similar problem, upon taking a few sips of red wine my one upper and one lower tooth start to throb.  I had this problem years ago and had a root canal on a front tooth. 

Thank you, finally a answer that is beneficial instead of stop drinking or go to the dentist when even they don't know how to fix it!

I agree it actually eats your teeth

I have the same tooth sensitivity problem with champagne and some white wines. I have found that it is due to a specific acid in some wines. There is more than one type of acid in wine but I believe the sensitivity comes from wines high in malic acid. Champagne and some white wines are high in malic acids. Malic acid is also high in green apples and I have the same tooth pain after eating one of these. Other wines such as reds mostly go through malolactic fermentation which, as the name implies, converts the malic acid to lactic acid. I have no tooth issues with any reds. The simple solution to this problem I find is to make sure you eat after or while drinking champagne as your saliva neutralizes the acids. Otherwise you can just brush your teeth ASAP.

I ate pizza and the pain was gone
Maybe origano or the cilli did the trick

I am so glad to see these posts, even though I am over a year late. I have had this sensitivity for almost 30 years now and it has driven me crazy! I gave up wine while still at university and had two crowns installed. I found back then that it was wine, orange juice and dried fruit of all things. Any dried fruit.
However, fortified wines had no effect, so all is not lost for those who think they have to give up wine.
What I find really interesting is that no dentist has an understanding of the problem and the only remedy seems to be the one we find by experimentation. I have found that using these 'sensitive' toothpastes helps a heap; my life would be unbearable otherwise.
What I have also found is that with these toothpastes I can now drink wine and all the other things that used to give me grief...except some wines! I find that South African wines generally make my teeth sensitive. Last night I had a glass of local wine in Bali and I could hardly eat breakfast!! Ouch! One thing I have discovered is that wine and dried fruit both have these sulphates as a preservative. Maybe some wines have more than others, I have not done any research on this yet. Methinks there may be a link.

Same here!!! The worst pain was with a tooth I had a root canal & crown on in the last year. It hurt to even bite down on at all the entire night. Glad I'm not the only one with this crazy symptom! Sucks though. :-(

So glad to discover this thread in a google search. "can wine make my teeth hurt?" I thought I was going crazy, took me a long time to finally make the connection that the worst pain was after white wine. And, like others have said, for days afterwards. Thanks for posting this (and all the replies)

More sugar equalls faster heart rate notice how when your tooth hurts it feels as if you have a heart beat. I dont know the science but i have teeth problems. And everytime i drink my heart races causing serious pain only if my tooth is already earitated. It makes mytooth hurt at its peaks when i drink just one beer i hate it but i have no insurance. Whats going on in this world. They make it impossible to fix your teeth its sad really sad

I WONDER, COULD IT BE THE SULFATES IN WINE THAT CAN CAUSE THE TOOTH DISCOMFORT?

Hi for the last 4 years I too have had tooth pain after alcohol !! It has taken a while to realise that alcohol was the culprit. The problem is I do not have teet where I am having toothache !! Pain lasts for days - causing problems eating !! Cannot imagine my social life without alcohol (makes me sound like a heavy drinker but I am not) one glass of vodka can trigger it off!! Been to dentist but they couldn't help and looked at me like I was going mad

Even i too experienced the same complaints. For me it lasts the next day also. It happens with white wine as well as red wine but not with any other type of alcohol. I was helped by a homeopathic doctor who gave the medicine chammomilla inorder to calm down my sensitive nerves. It worked for me. The sensitiveness is tolerable now.