A patient told me of an event that happened to him where he was eating. He bites into a hard object within the food he was eating. He was concerned that he had a broken tooth. The object looked like a piece of tooth but when he inspected his teeth with his tongue he said that all the teeth felt the same.

This sometimes happens when the food a person is eating has an object in it that is hard and happens to hit on top of a tooth. If the tooth breaks it will have a different shape and may be sharp edges. If the tooth seems not to have changed there may not be a problem. Depending how hard the patient hit the tooth,  the periodontal ligament may be bruised if so this will usually resolve in 2-3 days. If it does not you should contact your dentist.