My dentist appointment is in a few hours, 4.5 to be exact and I have to be exact because every minute seems like an eternity when you are in pain. I keep looking at that clock but the time just won't go any faster.
Pain started yesterday and it is horrible, throbbing and pulsating. I feel like my head is going to explode. Medical painkillers are not helping or they take a long time to start working. Google my old friend, we meet again...
Toothache home remedies?
...and Google came to the rescue. It presented me with some natural remedies that I could use before going to the dentist, and I have tried some of them. I would have tried them all in my desperation but I only did those for which I had ingredients at home.
This is the first advice I found and the most common one. Almost every page has something about this written on it. This advice does not work for me at all.
NO HELP FROM THIS ONE...
One teaspoon of salt should be mixed with 2.5 dcL of water. Gargle this mixture in your mouth for 30 seconds, spit out and repeat for as many times as you need.
It is said that it would clean the area, reduce the swelling and remove the pain. It did not do a single one of those things, and why should it, it is water with salt. There are no mystical medical benefits regarding pain removal there.
Many people, including some dentists, suggest any kind of onion but say that garlic is the best and the strongest. Why try normal onion when garlic is supposed to be better? I should have gone with onion...
WHY IS MY MOUTH BURNING?
Cut the garlic into small pieces, place those pieces in some sort of tissue and then put it on your tooth. If you are a daredevil like myself, do not use the tissue and place the garlic directly on your tooth. It will release one of its ingredients allicin which has antibacterial property. It should remove the pain in 2 to 30 minutes.
The pain did not go away in 30 minutes, it did not go away at all because the thing that no one says on those web pages is that it burns like you have just put some kind of acid in your mouth. I managed to endure the burning and the pain together for 2 minutes and spit that devil garlic out. I had a feeling like there was a fire in my mouth. I tried again using a tissue and got the same results. NONE AT ALL.
Now, almost 1.5 hours had passed after I took the medical painkiller, one of the strongest on the market and my tooth was still killing me. I was at the point where I wanted to go head first through the wall.
Next thing I found was clove. Clove? That nail shaped dry things I put in my wine? Yes, that clove. After digging deeper, I found out that it is actually used in dental practice and a lot of medicine has it as its main ingredient.
THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM!
Take a couple of cloves in your mouth and put them above the tooth that hurts. Leave them there a minute or two until they start to soften up a bit because of your saliva and then chew on them (with your teeth that do not hurt). By chewing on them, they will release a substance called eugenol.
Eugenol has antibacterial and antiseptic effect and it also acts as local anesthetic. It took my pain away, it really did. After I have chewed on it, I have put it above the tooth and started counting to 300 slowly. It is my method of going through 5 minutes of time. After that time, the pain was gone, all of it. It came back in an hour but at least for a while, it was gone.
Do not swallow it, spit it out.
2 hours till my dentist appointment. Yes, I have been writing this short post for two hours now. Give me some credit, the pain is really bad and I am barely keeping my head up but I think it would be even worse if I had not had this distraction.
Did you have similar problems with pain?
What did you do to help yourself?
Let me know in the comments below.
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