Teeth Dream Interpretation: Insights from 37 Unique Sources

An ordinary dream involving teeth often foretells unpleasant encounters with sickness or troubling people. Each scenario related to teeth in dreams can symbolize a range of misfortunes or personal struggles.

Loose or Missing Teeth

Dreaming of loose teeth suggests impending failures and bad news. Losing teeth entirely indicates burdens that could crush your pride or disrupt your affairs. If your teeth are knocked out, it symbolizes sudden misfortune, such as business losses or close encounters with accidents or death.

Health and Sickness

Spitting out teeth in a dream may foretell personal illness or sickness within your immediate family. Decayed or damaged teeth represent poor health or intense stress, potentially leading to further physical decline.

Dental Procedures

• Doctor pulling a tooth: Desperate illness, possibly fatal and lingering.
• Having teeth filled: Recovering lost valuables, but only after much uneasiness.
• Cleaning or washing teeth: A great struggle will be required to preserve your fortune.
• Getting a set of teeth made: Significant challenges will arise, and you will try to discard them.

Decay and Personal Misfortune

Dreaming of decayed teeth signifies suffering in business or health. Imperfect teeth represent mishaps such as loss of estates, failure of plans, or bad health. The more teeth that fall out in your dream, the more severe the consequences, including sickness, accidents, or even death and famine.

Positive Aspects

Admiring your teeth for their whiteness and beauty indicates pleasant times and happiness, often through the fulfillment of wishes. If tartar falls off your teeth, revealing them to be sound and white, it signifies temporary illness, but also personal growth and enjoyment in fulfilling responsibilities.

Mystery and Uncertainty

If you dream of losing a tooth, searching for the cavity with your tongue but failing to find it, and consulting a doctor to no avail, it suggests that you may soon enter an uncertain or uncomfortable situation. You may initially ignore it, but will later pursue it in secret, causing personal discomfort and suspicion from friends.

Unexpected Disappointments

In a dream where a dentist cleans your teeth perfectly but you find them rusty the next day, this suggests that you may feel secure about someone or something, only to discover that your trust has been betrayed by a deceitful person.

See Sickness, Misfortune, Health, Struggle, Loss.

(Acrimony, Dice, Grasping, Longevity, Migration) Falling teeth in a dream can symbolize various outcomes, often associated with longevity, family, financial concerns, and personal losses. Here's a breakdown of common interpretations:

Longevity and Family

• Falling teeth: Generally signify longevity or living past one’s contemporaries.
• Collecting fallen teeth: Suggests long life or having many children.
• Unable to find lost teeth: Indicates the dreamer’s family may die before them, or that a family member may emigrate.
• Finding a lost tooth: Represents the return of an immigrant to their homeland.

Symbolism of Upper and Lower Teeth

• Upper teeth falling into hand: Symbolizes profits or financial gain.
• Upper teeth falling into lap: Represents the birth of a son.
• Upper teeth falling onto the floor: Suggests death or a significant loss.
• Lower teeth falling: Indicates pain, suffering, sorrow, or distress.

Financial and Debt-Related Symbolism

• Teeth falling: Represents paying off debts, with the number of fallen teeth indicating the number of debts to be settled.
• Teeth falling without pain or cause: Symbolizes worthless deeds.
• Teeth falling due to gum disease or pain: Suggests being forced to part with something valuable.

Pain, Loss, and Incompetence

• Front teeth falling with pain and bleeding: Represents incompetence or failure to complete a project.
• Front teeth falling without pain or bleeding: Indicates the loss of property.
• Falling teeth: Can denote a long illness that may not necessarily lead to death.
• Collecting fallen teeth: May suggest regret over saying something hurtful or losing the ability to have children.

Pregnancy and Birth

• Pulling out a tooth without pain: If the dreamer’s wife is pregnant, this suggests the birth of a son.
• Gums bleeding: Indicates forsaking family or being forced to pay a debt.

Spiritual and Financial Concerns

• Religious person losing teeth: Symbolizes the need for more devotion, and fasting could help with spiritual discipline.
• Unable to eat after losing teeth: Indicates poverty.
• Spending money for spiritual knowledge: Suggests financial investment in spiritual pursuits, with the possibility of recouping the investment through a blessed business venture.

See Body, Pain, Tooth for additional insights.

Dreams about losing teeth are common and often indicate that the dreamer feels powerless or out of control in a real-life situation. Here are some interpretations of teeth-related dreams:

Loose Teeth and Losing Teeth

• Loose teeth: A warning about untrustworthy friends.
• Teeth falling out or spitting them out: Signifies anxiety about money or financial insecurity.

Dental Procedures and Emotional Loss

• Having a tooth pulled or removed: Reflects a fear of losing someone important in your life or concerns about an existing loss.
• Brushing your teeth: Represents the removal of obstacles that have been holding you back.

Unusual Teeth and Emotional States

• Wooden teeth: Feeling apathetic or emotionless, going through life on autopilot, or acting without thinking things through.
• Gray or rotting teeth: A potential sign of health issues; it's advisable to see a doctor.

Cavities and Broken Teeth

• Getting a cavity: A warning about potential health risks or a reminder of hurtful words spoken that are coming back to haunt you.
• Broken or worn-down teeth: Symbolizes the breakdown of an important relationship.

White Teeth and Recovery

• Bleaching your teeth: Represents a desire to overcome bad habits or health issues, often seen during recovery from illness.
• Very white or even teeth: Forecasts happiness and prosperity in the future.

Biting and Power Struggles

• Biting someone or being bitten: Indicates a power struggle or conflict with someone in your life.

Other Teeth-Related Symbols

• Something stuck in your teeth or picking your teeth: A warning of false friends in your close circle.
• Fangs: Indicates that you may have spoken hurtful words that have negatively impacted others.

See Dentures. for additional insights.

If you are toothless or see someone without teeth, this suggests loss of effectiveness or feelings about aging. Don’t, however, neglect the possibility that the dream may have been triggered by toothache or a recent trip to the dentist.

If teeth are rotten or decayed in your dream, perhaps you have said something you regret. Spitting out lots of teeth indicates something you need to spit out or admit in waking life.

If you are brushing your teeth in your dream, this may suggest you are experiencing a hard struggle in waking life; it could also, of course, echo your dentist’s plea to take better care of your teeth.

If something is lodged between your teeth, this suggests that a problem which seemed impossible in waking life may be easily resolved.

If one tooth is far larger than the rest of the teeth in your mouth, you may be worried that something in your personal and working life won’t be the success you hoped it would be. Clean teeth or teeth that glisten are linked to strong friendships or financial security.

If the roots of the teeth are featured, you may be thinking about the stability of your waking relationships.

If the roots are healthy, you are satisfied with these, but if the roots are twisted or unhealthy, this suggests concerns in that area of your life. 

In a region of Sudan, if a woman smiles by completely showing her teeth it is a bad omen. It symbolizes the jaws of a wild animal that scare the cattle. African sorcerers believe that this dream augurs upcoming prosperity. However, according to popular tradition moving teeth indicate illness or loss of affection. And losing them predicts pain and death. However, if the tooth falls on your hand, it is an opposite omen: you will have a son or will receive good news.

If you dream of loosing your teeth, then you are venting your feelings of insecurity, powerlessness, financial stress, or your feelings about the loss or death of a family member.

If you dream of false teeth, then you are processing your feelings about lies, broken promises, and falsities.

If your teeth are strong and white, you feel bold, confident and powerful.

If you dream that someone is showing you their teeth, then this is a sign of aggressiveness and intimidation.

If you dream of flossing or brushing your teeth, then you are polishing up your verbal skills, your presentation, and your communication skills in order to make a good impression. Or, this could be a sign to clean up a communication that went awry that has left a bad taste in your mouth. Consider the feeling tone of this dream to discern the meaning for you.

Positive: White and healthy teeth speak of the blessing of the Lord and walking in abundance.

• Genesis 49:12 His eyes [will be] red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

• It is also a picture of your strength and ability to overcome problems in your life.

Negative: To dream or have a vision of gnashing teeth speaks of the attack of the enemy.

It is a curse of destruction and its intention is to tear you down.

• Job 16:9 He tears [me] in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

• To have your teeth broken speaks of being humbled and of having your strengths removed from you.

• To dream of your teeth becoming rotten speaks of something inside of you that is not of God. This is a very good picture of bitterness, and how it destroys you from inside out.

See Jaw, Mouth.

Hostility or an attack, such as when dream figures deliver “biting words” or “bare their teeth.”

Losing teeth in a dream may reflect words said in haste, or losing the ability to speak candidly.

Because this bony part of the body endures long after death, it has some associations with the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. In this context, losing teeth might equate to losing the will to live or having your personal power taken away.

Rotten teeth equate either to the fear of old age, or someone whose words are filled with so much insincere sweetness that decay in that relationship is inevitable.

Having teeth pulled out represents an end to suffering that is aided by an external force.

To dream of rotten teeth shows that you have been telling someone a lie or using your smooth words for getting your own way no matter what.

If your teeth are rotten, crooked, and/or falling out this means that your lies are hurting someone very badly and that you will soon be found out.

If you dream you have swallowed a tooth you will soon have too ‘eat your words’. It becomes much easier to interpret this kind of dream if you think of teeth as representing words. When the dreamer is not the one with the bad teeth you will naturally have to watch out for someone lying to you.

If the dreamer dreams of aching teeth, this could be a warning of future health problems, possibly involving the teeth but not necessarily. White and beautiful teeth, on the contrary, portend health and happiness.

Broken or decayed teeth imply the need for repair in some department of the dreamer’s life. Look to other symbols in the dream to judge which one.

Dreaming of brushing your teeth implies making major and positive changes in your life. Astrological parallel: Saturn

If we are anxious about teeth dropping out it suggests there is a fear of getting old and undesirable, or an anxiety about maturing. In a woman’s dream, if the teeth are swallowed this can sometimes signify pregnancy, a wish for pregnancy, or an issue with sex.

2. Discern,

3. Wisdom.

• False teeth

- False wisdom;

• Incisor

- Decisive (ability to decide)

• Eye-tooth

- Vision or revelation;

• Wisdom Teeth

- Godly wisdom

• Toothache

- Hurting believer; Devouring words; . Zechariah 9:7-8

• Tooth Decay

- Sin; Sinful words.

• Losing Teeth

- Losing face; Shame; Loss of words or lost for words; Judgment of God (broken teeth); Unfaithful or ungodly person

• New Teeth

- Glory

(2) False teeth may symbolize insincerity.

(3) Losing teeth may symbolize a feeling of - or fear of- getting old or impotent or losing sexual attractiveness. Or they may represent a retreat to infancy (when, toothless, you enjoyed your mother’s breasts and nourishment), and hence a refusal to face reality. Alternatively, they may symbolize the start of a new phase in your life (knocking a tooth out sometimes featured in male initiation rites).

It is in this way that teeth symbolize prosperity by virtue of being the arbiter of love, protection, and nurturance.

To set one’s teeth on their edge in a dream also could mean changes in one’s behavior that may lead to a changing attitude on the part of such family members.

(See Body’, Tooth)

To dream that you are brushing your teeth is indicative of your poor self-image. You struggle with confidence and aggression. Until you resolve this, you will see little success.

If teeth are falling out, you are unable to understand a problem or situation; something is too tough to swallow.

To have your teeth cleaned or brushing your teeth; you have to fight for what is yours. Admiring; good news is coming. Toothless; Powerlessness over progressing.

2. Stage of life or development (as in “milk teeth” or “cutting” teeth).

3. Ability to communicate.

4. Possible health problems.

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• Toothache: Displeasure due to losing quarrels that disgrace a close associate.
• Braces, wearing: Your speech has been distorted, and it’s time to correct it.
• Brushing your teeth: Trials that may seem to rob you of your pride will ultimately end in self-esteem.
• Not brushing: Even with loyal friends, you may feel lost.
• Children’s teeth: Borrowing money from relatives may lead to losing them as friends.
• Teeth covered with tartar: It’s time to reexamine your speech and communication style.
• Teeth falling out: Personal affairs are being brutally discussed by close neighbors.
• Teeth crumbling: Do exercises to relax your jaw, and stay alert for enemies.
• Teeth dropping out: You spoke out of turn, and some team members may defect.
• Loose teeth: Your inner anger has pushed someone away.
• False teeth, wearing: Taking credit for something that isn’t yours will backfire.
• Flossing your teeth: Unscrupulous gossip will be revealed.
• Foam from brushing: Your distress will arouse empathy from others.
• Teeth extracted with forceps: A difficult period you will revisit every decade.
• Friend’s teeth: You will receive good news from relatives far away.
• Fungus on teeth: You are allowing others to speak for you.
• Gnashing your teeth: Humiliation at the hands of lowly individuals; take control.
• Gold tooth: Corruption and sorrow surround you.
• Teeth of any other metal: Humiliating quarrels may lead to lawsuits if you persist.
• Grinding your teeth: You are swallowing silent anger toward authority.
• Teeth growing in: News of a death will arrive.
• Having big teeth: You will be very short of money.
• Black teeth: Neglecting your dental health; visit a dentist.
• Teeth cleaned by a dentist: You will lend money to neighbors.
• Dirty teeth: Affliction caused by heredity.
• Teeth filled: A mistake needs rectifying before you can move forward.
• Healthy teeth: Success is unquestionable.
• Knocked-out teeth: You are struggling aggressively to control a sudden misfortune.
• Pulled teeth: Profiting from another's tragedy is tainted.
• Wisdom tooth: Fear of losing something treasured, like the ability to speak your mind.
• Infected teeth: You must give an explanation for your fears to overcome them.
• Injected with Novocain: You will be honored with a vacation, but at your own expense.
• Teeth lost in a fight: Physical suffering is undiagnosable.
• Baby tooth: Inner anger has even driven away the tooth fairy.
• Front teeth: Loss of control over power and circumstances.
• Loved one's teeth: Court action over inheritance.
• Teeth moving: Emotional instability caused by unfaithful friends.
• One tooth longer than the rest: Fears of affliction from relatives.
• Straight, white teeth: A wish for lifelong happiness will be realized.
• Prominent teeth: You need a dental checkup.
• Staring at another's teeth: You are assessing their worth in an amicable divorce.

See Health, Anger, Gossip, Control, Relationships.