Tooth dreams are more related to animals than dreams in general. They are much less related to unnamed people, much less related to strangers, and much less related to peers.

Tooth dreams are more related to fear and much more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

Tooth dreams are much less related to home, less related to work, and much less related to human-made places.

Tooth dreams are more related to eating and drinking and much more related to health events than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts, much less related to friendly acts, and less related to sex.

Dreams of teeth are more related to nightmares, much more related to recurring dreams, and more related to bad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to weird dreams, and less related to vivid dreams.

Dreams of teeth are more related to smelling and more related to taste than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing and much less related to vision.

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience teeth in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about teeth in dreams. See how you feel about teeth now, in your waking life.

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. Teeth in dreams have a wide variety of uses as symbolism, giving you a lot to consider. But as with other symbols, the meaning is usually found in how teeth connect with other details, especially actions, and the context. Teeth can be a source of anxiety, especially for their care and appearance, and many dreams about problems with teeth connect with anxiety. Stress too, “the daily grind.” Ground-down teeth is a great metaphor for feeling ground down. See: Anxiety Then again, the first rule of dream interpretation is to consider the obvious. A small anxiety about your teeth can be turned into a major one in your dreams. It might be time to see a dentist. Another popular dream theme involves loss of teeth. That can connect with any sort of loss, but it’s especially good as symbolism for losing something close to you. For example, it’s common to dream about losing a molar after having a miscarriage or losing a child or other loved one. Molars are deeply embedded in the mouth, and children and other loved ones are deeply embedded in your life. Losing a front tooth can symbolize loss of prestige, status, or reputation. Front teeth are part of the face, so losing front teeth means losing part of your face—a dream’s way of saying “lost face.” See: Faces Losing a baby tooth can symbolize losing a pregnancy or fear of it, or losing what the tooth symbolizes to you: your innocence, your childhood. On the other hand, losing baby teeth and growing adult teeth is a rite of passage and can mean you’re growing, maturing. Your feelings and reactions tell you the difference in the meaning. See: Miscarriages Loss of teeth in a dream can mean you lose hope, lose touch with reality, lose out on an opportunity, lose a relationship, lose part of yourself, and so forth—anything involving loss. It can symbolize feeling lost in your life. See: Lost Losing a tooth creates a gap, and a gap can symbolize something missing from your life. For example, you lose custody of your child, or a child goes off to college, creating a gap in your life. Crumbling teeth can connect with something in your life or yourself that’s falling apart, such as physical health—your body is falling apart, or you fear it is—or your mind or emotions are falling apart, or threatening to. Anything involving the mouth in a dream can relate to articulation and speech. For example, dreaming about teeth falling out while you’re trying to speak to a group of people can symbolize fear of speaking in public or in groups. It can connect with lacking confidence in what you say, or lacking honesty. See: Mouths A young man dreams about having dinner with his dad, and every time he opens his mouth to speak, teeth fall out. It symbolizes anxiety about talking with his father. The young man recently came out as transgender, and his father isn’t taking it well. Chewing on something too big like a big wad of gum that makes speech difficult can symbolize inability to find the right words or communicate a thought or idea. Chewing on glass or sharp objects can symbolize saying things that hurt people, or being careful to avoid saying something that could hurt someone. Chewing can mean chewing on a thought or idea. False teeth can symbolize lying and other false words that come out of your mouth, or giving off a false impression. For example, a young woman dreams that she has false teeth that smell putrid. The night before the dream her mom asked her whether she was using drugs and she said no, knowing that she smokes cannabis. False teeth in this dream represent her lie, and the putrid smell represents her guilt about lying to her mom. On the other hand, confidence in your teeth can symbolize confidence in what you say or how you say it. Teeth are closely tied with personal presentation and the impression a person gives off. You can tell a lot about a person from his or her teeth, and dreams can use those associations to tell stories about reputation, appearance, self-consciousness, and personal presentation. The idea of presentation extends to your place in the world and your standing within it—how you present yourself to the world. For example, a young man dreams about having a hollow tooth and being told by a dentist that the problem will fix itself in time. It connects with his worries about paying for college. Getting a degree is tied closely in his mind with the sort of social image he wants, and hollowness in this case connects with the hole in his finances to pay for college. Food stuck in teeth can symbolize appearing foolish, or bad presentation. Brushing teeth is connected with preparation—especially preparation to present yourself, such as in dating and mating. Perfect teeth, hair, body, clothes. Perfect resume. Brush teeth before going out or meeting a date. Brushing and preparation go hand in hand. Here’s a good example. A woman dreams she’s brushing her teeth in her female friend’s bathroom when her friend’s boyfriend steps out of the shower and she gets a peek at his penis, and is embarrassed. In the next scene, she’s trying to get to a wedding when she spills tea on an old chair, embarrassing her again, and she has to clean it up, so she misses the wedding. The dream is about finding a husband, and brushing teeth symbolizes the woman’s thoughts about how she presents herself as a potential mate. The dream uses the boyfriend as a character because he’s the sort of man she’d like to attract. Her embarrassment when she sees him, and later when she stains the old chair, connects with her embarrassment about her age. She’s no longer a maiden, and in her mind it’s the stain on her presentation. Teeth are connected with attractiveness. Attractive teeth can indicate attraction to someone, or to something such as a subject or prospect, and unattractive teeth carry the opposite idea. For example, you dream about meeting Mr. (or Ms.) Right, and everything is great until he opens his mouth and he’s missing teeth, or half-chewed food drops out. It helps you realize that the guy you’ve been dating lacks something you want in a relationship. See: Beauty Removing teeth, or agreeing to have them removed, can symbolize a loss that you initiate or acquiesce to, such as breaking off a relationship, dropping a class, or leaving a job. See: Amputations See also: Anxiety, Babies, Beauty, Body parts, Faces, Guilty, Lips, Lost, Mirrors, Mouths, Speaking, White