Some Thoughts:
- When you have a tooth ache everything else takes second place.
- Oh, and the tooth ache always happens on a bank holiday weekend, to ensure maximum pain, and remind you to go to the bloody dentist more often!
- Vodka, rubbed onto the infected gum/teeth is a god-send for pain relief. It lasts almost 3 hours and it’ll let you get some measure of rest at night.
- Have an understanding partner who’ll take care of you and fuss over you.
- Brush, floss and see your dentist more often.
- Brush, floss and see your dentist more often.
- Brush, floss and see your dentist more often.
- Brush, floss and see your dentist more often.
I’ll probably have to get a root-canal next week, the tooth is dead so hopefully it won’t be too sore. (I’m not too hopeful though..)
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marla,
Dental decay is an infection that is PREVENTABLE. If you have very good oral hygiene, brush at least twice a day, floss daily before you brush, use a mouthrinse, and don’t eat rubbish food e.g. lollies, soft drink etc and have regular check up I doubt you’ll be having toothache right now. If you’ve been religious about the above mentioned I take back my words and I apologise. If not you brought it upon yourself and I still stand by what I said. Early decay is REVERSIBLE and early treatment doesn’t hurt (and only costs $18, you call that expensive? It’s cheaper than 2 packs of cigarettes! If you still can’t afford it and if you don’t smoke I’ll even buy it for you), when it starts to hurt the decay has been in your mouth for at least 3 years. Ignore it for another few months and the nerve will be infected. If you see an open wound or feel pain anywhere else on your body would you ignore it? I just don’t understand why ppl would ignore pain in their mouths and when the pain gets unbearable blame the dentist for their own problems. Don’t even get me started on failed attempts to save your teeth. If you want to have your teeth pull out fine go ahead, just don’t regret when your face start sinking in when the bone resorps after the teeth are gone and you end up with few more wrinkles, or when you can’t eat properly due to the missing teeth (and I’m sick of ppl complaining about their dentures not fitting properly, of course it doesn’t fit, it’s only a piece of plastic/metal it’s not real teeth for goodness sake and will never feel like real teeth! You don’t hear ppl complaining about artificial leg so stop complaining abt artificial teeth), or worse, your bite close up and the pressure snap your front tooth (please don’t cry when your dentist says I’m sorry there’s nothing I can do). Compassion? It’s reserved for ppl who deserve it. Those who blame us for their own faults are not in the list. Oh and thanks for linking to my blog, thank you for the publicity. 🙂
I doubt that you are a real dentist. If you are,you should rethink your profession .
Just consider this, if everyone had perfect teeth you would be out of a job . So it’s these poor souls on this website that butter your bread. EVERONE no matter how well they brush, floss, maintain their healthy diet will have some dental problems thoughout their life time. Fear is a HUGE factor in missing dental appointments and leaving a sick tooth.
Instead of that nasty attitude you have developed during the course of your dental practice, you should be encouraging people kindly and use your training and knowlege to help them get the help they need to get over their fears .
You have only reinforced these fears with your attitude.
I would not want to be on the other side of a drill or a elevator or chisel if your hand was guiding it with that attitude.
marla,
A secret to help you avoid the dentist. Cut out on carbohydrate in your diet. If you only eat protein and fat and minimal carbohydrate (no bread, cake, potatoes, sugar, milk, soft drink, ice cream, chocolate etc) you’ll have no fermentable sugar in your mouth to cause decay. My friend’s diet has minimal carbohydrate, he hasn’t been to the dentist for the past 12 years and never have problem. Good luck.
Gappy,
Keep doing what you’re doing now, and go back to your dentist and tell him/her to give you a “Monoject”. It’s a curved syringe that can help you to flush the back of your mouth. Every dentists should give one to the patient after wisdom teeth extraction.
Watch the meds everyone! I just spent 36 hours in the ER and ICU because I overdosed on Tylenol trying to rid myself of the worst toothache I’ve ever had. That mess will kill your liver, it almost killed me. I have finally had the tooth pulled and it’s getting better. Better to deal with the pain than lose your life… take it from someone who knows. My liver still hurts as it is trying to heal too.
How much did you take can I ask, because I am going through the same thing, I took 4 325mg tablets about 4 hrs ago, and just now took 650mg more and was thinking about having a frozen slushy malibu rum drink too
dentistdownunder,
I was quite upset last night from all the pain I was in, your remarks to some were downright wrong, no matter how you may feel. I do however apologize for being a bit on the crabby side, and I appreciate your advice, on how to avoid the dentist, I will definately try it.
Hello to all my fellow suffers, i have tooth ache, been to the dentist twice in 1 day becuase i could not get the pain to go away, so i gave up with dentist untill an extranction is available.I have learned to associate the pain with good feelings, ever heard the expression” it hurts so good”, no honestly it can be done, you can block all sensation of pain becuase if the electrical impusle can be re-rooted to another part of the brain or blocked all together, mind over mater is the stongest drug you can get and it’s free, so hurt all you want you little blighter you can not cuase me any more pain, postive mental attitude is all you need once you can control your pain you will feel much better and the tooth will no longer hurt. also if you try so clove oil rub it on the gum and cavity and the arean will go numb and the sensation of pain will ge less. Remember pain is natural part of the body nervous system and it actually helps you , though it may not feel like at the momment, painis a the way the body tells us that soimething is not right and we need to take action, i hope this had helped even if one person finds this usefull then it will have been worth it,
I am in sooooooooo much pain – a year ago my dentist totally f***ed up a crown (the temp was on too long as he forgot to order the perm, then he dropped the perm on the floor before fitting it and did nothing to sterilise it. I’m too in awe of dentists (and in too much pain) to say anything. One week later – worst…. abscess….ever… trapped under a new, raised crown too. Emerg dentidt gives antibiots and reccommends root canal – dentist says root canal not necessary (he qualified in 63 and doesn’t seem to have moved with the times).
A year of persistent problems later (each of which the dentist claimed to find “baffling”) I end up with the second…. worst …. abscess…. evere – which causes the tooth to erupt. Go to eergency chap who wants to know why this hasn’t been root canalled – long story short: new dentist, and root canal.
The relief after the RC was great – for a few days – but now I have “tenderness” (to put it incredibly mildly) on the hard palate above the RCed tooth. I cant eat, talk, and I have to trap my tongue between my teath as if it even momentarily touches the sore spot I get a sick suddder all thru my body. I cant concentrate and havent slept in nights and – added to that – I’m working away from home and so can’t see dentist tim monday (I have the 8.30 appointment!)
After having read this board I’m going to trythe “topical alcohol” approach (I may even try the ingested alcohol approach too). I wouldnt mind but the original problem with this tooth was caused by a malfitted brace about 20 years ago – it’s been nothing but trouble ever since!
I could sit down and cry – I want to go home (5.5 hours by train) and just knock myself out til monday mornig.
I have the WORST toothache then I believe anyone has ever had. My pain in my left ear, down my jaw, and cheek line, and all around my left back molers are EXTREMLY pained out to the max. I have had my left lung literally explode in my chest and this is waaay worse. I have thrown up several times because of the pain. It feels like someone has stuck a knife in my temple, and pored acid down my ear drum. My eyes turn a blood red glaze, and I’m not well because i don’t eat. Then pain is driving me to potential harmful thoughts. Please god help me if you can. I have called the dentist and they always want you to make an appoitment to get in. I have tried everything but vodka. PLease god this HAS to help me. I have no other options and it feels like my life is ending slowly. I’m sorry everyone 🙁
OMFG, OMFG, OMFG you guys please please please use VODKA and put it on a towel and apply it directly on your tooth. Please listen to me, if you want your pain to go away NOW. You will try this. it doesn’t get rid of it forever, but for instant relief it is the shit. I just did it and I feel no pain at all. I’m going to try and get some rest, and see if i can sneak in a couple more hours. good luck:)
Dentist Down Under,
Prevention of decay is all very good, but the dentists’ philosophy of saving a tooth at any cost rather than extracting it is a profit motivated practise. Drilling and filling teeth is an expensive, destructive, cosmetic and very temporary solution to the problem akin to grinding the rust out of a car body and filling it with bog before respraying – it looks okay for a while, but the damage is already done and the underlying decay will keep resurfacing.
I am not advocating that people ignore infection. The pain they experience is the body’s way of telling them there is something the matter. If they clean out the food particles and bits of toxic filling and remove the sections of bad tooth, the pain usually disappears within a couple of days without any other intervention.
The money-generating dental “profession” has only been around a century or so, yet people seemed to manage before then somehow, even if they didn’t have perfectly straight, Hollywood bleached teeth. The human race managed to survive before dentists came along by using common sense and allowing the body to heal itself.
Generations of people now have been conditioned to book an appointment with the dentist at the first sign of a toothache, or trained by the dentist to go regularly for checkups. Either way, the dentist gets plenty of repeat business and most people are totally unaware of their ability to deal with their teeth themselves.
Ban Fillings,
You obviously live in the last century. Nowadays we prefer preventive dentistry to restorative. If I don’t have to drill I wouldn’t. Like I kept saying, early decay is REVERSIBLE, provided it’s detected in the early stage, that’s why it’s important to have regular check up, unless you can cut out the carbohydrate from your diet no matter how many times you brush you still have the risk of getting decay but it’s your choice nobody is forcing you to see the dentist. If you let your car get to the stage of rusting you obviously never take good care of it, just like your teeth they need regular maintenance.
I’ve left holes unfilled several times, provided it’s not decay and the patient can keep it very clean you don’t have to fill it. The filling is only there to prevent the tooth from getting decay again, as it’s very difficult to keep clean when you’ve a hole in your tooth. If you don’t want it filled it’s fine by me it’s your tooth not mine. What I don’t understand is that why do ppl think that fillings should last forever? Your car doesn’t last forever so why should you expect a filling to last forever. When you have a heart attack you don’t expect the cardiologist to fix your heart back to what it used to be, so why do you bash the dentist when a dental treatment doesn’t restore your tooth to what it used to be? Weird.
Please do more research before you make any untrue statements. Human beings had been practicing dentistry for thousands of years. Archaeologists studying the remains of two men from Mehrgarh, Pakistan, made the discovery that the people of Indus Valley Civilization, even from the early Harappan periods (c. 3300 BC), had knowledge of medicine and dentistry. The physical anthropologist that carried out the examinations, Professor Andrea Cucina from the University of Missouri-Columbia, made the discovery when he was cleaning the teeth from one of the men. Later research in the same area found evidence of teeth having been drilled, dating back 9,000 years. Check out the news on the BBC website http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4882968.stm
Ancient Chinese medical works also discussed dental and gum diseases in their oldest medical book written by Hung Ti about 2500B.C., one whole chapter was devoted to dental and gum diseases and the treatment of this conditions.
Hammurabi’s Code created around 1780B.C. had several references to dental procedures and fees.
The Edwin Smith Papyrus (dates as early as 3000 B.C.) and Ebers Papyrus from about 1550 B.C. also discussed several dental diseases. Numerous papyri enumerate prescriptions to dental diseases, such as pyorrhea, loose teeth, dental caries and abscesses. Surgically produced holes to drain an abscess under the 1st molar were found in the mandible of a 4th dynasty mummy (2625 – 2510 BC). A loose tooth fixed with a gold wire bridge to a neighboring sound tooth was discovered in another mummy of the same dynasty in Giza. Artificial teeth holding a maxillary bridge by a silver wire was also found in the late period (Greco-Roman). Tooth extraction, treatment of mouth ulcers and treatment of jaw dislocation were also dealt with in the Edwin Smith and Ebers Papyri.
I can go on and on with more examples but I’ll just leave it at that.
So the dental profession has only been around for a century or so? I don’t think so. You are probably living in a cave or your English is so bad you don’t know the defination of “a century”.
I don’t advocate Hollywood straight, bleached teeth. In fact I always try to convince my patients they’ve beautiful teeth whenever they want me to bleach them or straighten them. Teeth are naturally yellow, I won’t bleach my own teeth so I won’t bleach others either. If you want to blame someone, blame the media. There is only supply when there is demand, if ppl never ask for “blinding white” teeth I doubt any dentist would be doing it.
Tooth is drilled is to remove decay, if you have a better way of removing it please let me know. Pain would disappear when the nerve dies, but the infection is still there, that’s why ppl end up in the emergency department dying from an ignored dental infection. They think once the pain is gone the tooth is getting better, but as long as the decay is still there it will eventually blow up, the pain will return, often 10 times worse, and if you are the unlucky one, die from a simple tooth decay. If you want to yank your tooth out just because of decay by all mean go ahead, God obviously put your teeth there for a reason but like I said before, it’s your teeth not mine, do whatever you want with them, that’s what I always tell my patients, just don’t come back to me to complain later down the track. 🙂
well guys,my story starts 10 long years ago when i broke off half of mt front tooth, got it mended and looks normal
5 years later- got neuralagia or gingivitis-cant tell the difference-but its like having a tooth ache in every single tooth in your head.
Sept 2005- found (or rather was rudely awoke with seering pain in head,what the hell is goin on, my head is goin to explode with pain) tongue finds hard smooth lump in roof of mouth(wtf??) i say to myself, day later after 3 packets of paracetamol i burst the lump with tongue-yellow golden puss and blood seeps out through my gum right over my tooth was broken as a child-keeps coming back for next year-(dentist too expensive and i could always burst it in time before it got too big and painful-kinda like series “lost”!!) anyways month ago face swollen up (wtf!!) golfball in mouth-pain so sore try to burst it with a hot needle….(doesnt work-in more pain-Next day walk to docs in crucifying pain-on the way it conveniently bursts-i think it has a brain-evil dead!!)doc xrays-says its dental prob!! (f*ck that!!)
Today – went to dentist sat-face swelled up again fri,says its a cyst might hav to get root canal on three affected teeth. Gonna cost estimated 4200 im told but gettin an dentist est today-fingers crossed!!
hi guys again, its actually €1500 not 4200, but its still a bomb!! if any one here could give me second opinion id really appreciate it! like i said my face is swollen right up to my eye nearly, kinda gone done a bit with the antibiotics-but the xray of my mouth showed a black large marbelled shape with my front right tooth and two teeth to the right side of the right front tooth sticking int the cyst or absence-whats the diff betwwen a cyst and absence-i know i hav one of them- please does any one hav advice!!
Whats up all. I definatly feel your PAIN!! I’ve been strugglin’ with this toothach for 5 days now and the pain is so unreal it can’t be described in words! I’ve tried all the over the counter drugs, the ambesol and the numbing medicane but they only work for maybe 10 minutes at the most. The only thing that seemed to help me a little bit was by taking 4000 mg. of extra strength ibuprofen that was givin’ to my girlfriends sister for after labor pains. I can’t get into the dentist because the tooth is absessed an they won’t even look at it in that condition. I need to get some antiboitaics to reduse the pain and swelling. This is gotta be the worse pain I have ever experienced. I have had about 10 hours of sleep in the past 5 days, haven’t eatin a “soild” meal and I’m getting very weak. How are you supposed to build up your immune system with food and rest when yor teeth won’t let you do either.This is like a curse to test your strength see how much a person really can take. To be honest I’m about at the end of my rope!! My neck is swelled out, my ear hurts, my jaw looks like I’m holding a golf ball in it and I’ve keep a constant headach. I’m a man don’t get me wrong, but this pain is so MUCH I wanna cry at night..so cry my eyes out because I don’t know what else to do!I’m a smoker but it hurts so bad to inhale the cigarette I’ve almost quit. I’ve got this little fear in having a dentist stab my gums with there needles and all that but It’s comming to the point where I wanna rip this tooth(whats left of it) outta my face! There is no dentist around my area that use the “laughing gas” sedation so needles it is. Scares me when people tell me that an absessed tooth could send the “poison” through out my blood stream and possibly kill me. Thats way to much information so somethings gotta be done and done RIGHT NOW!!!!!If any of you all have any advise or home remedies that really do work I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks for your time and I hope all that are suffering get back to normal as soon as possible!
holy hell i have the mother of all tothaches for 2 weeks now .. i was eating doritos and it decides to crack in half and have a razor sharp point slicing my tounge for 4 days finally saw the dentist he filed it down and told me he couldnt pull it cuz i have no insurance!! so now i have half a tooth with a temp filling in there pressing down on a nerve making my cheek swell up causing me more pain than before i went. WHAT DO I DO?? its like someone is beating my gum with a hammer for about 2 weeks now .. goodtimes let me tell ya
I can understand how you all feel,my thoughts are with you all.
I am in horrific pain, it all started with a tooth which contained a post.The post started to go loose I saw my dentist who said it had fractured the tooth below the gum, so it would have to be removed.
I went on Tuesday to have it removed ,my dentist could not remove all of it, as it was in pieces, after digging at it he called the other dentist in ( a specialist in implants)he tried but with no luck, he said they would leave a small amount in the gum & leave it to heal.He said it wouldn`t be a problem.By Thursday I was in agony so I went back..He packed it out and cleaned it up,he also x rayed it,said no problem but gave me some antibiotics just in case.It is now Saturday & I have consumed large amounts of painkillers, didn`t get much sleep last night.The dentist did say if pain doesn`t improve I would have to see a specialist who would get the remining part out of my gum, as there is a nerve close to it.I hope he is available on Monday as I cannot take this pain much longer.Definately worse than child birth.I had a 10lb 12oz baby with no pain relief & it was a doddle.Tooth ache is horific!!! I taken 2x 400mg Ibuprofen 2hrs ago & have just taken 2x 500mg of Co-codamol which you can take inbetween the Ibuprofen,so my Chemist says.Best pain relief so far!
Well once again the whole of my left jaw is aching through tootache , but this time im getting tingles down my arm ! I’m no stranger to toothache , and have to be put asleep when i have dental treatment . Anyway , to get to my point, i have tried many different forms of pain relief over the last 8 years ( yes i really am that scared of the dentist) …
The one that stood out the most for me was taking co-proxamol 500 m/g. If you chew trhe tablet around the gum area you are sure to get a lovely nights seep ……
Also, to set the record straight , cocaine is worse than any sugary sweets ………….
is it possible for my wisdom tooth to be growing back in? I am in severe pain and I’ve already had them removed 9 months ago..HELP PLEASE…… vodka is only lasting 20 min now.
My heart goes out to all of you suffering with tooth pain. I never, never experienced such agony in my teeth until last week (Thursday). Got an emergency appointment with my dentist who cleared out the infection located in the tooth and cut the nerves. It was supposed to take care of the pain. It did to the point that I went from screaming and wanting to die to a constant toothache and being utterly miserable. My appointment with the endodonist was 3 weeks away. I knew I would have NO quality of life until I saw that man so I called his office to see if I could move up the appointment. Due to a cancellation I was able to get in today (Monday). The root canal was a blessing from God. The endodontist told me that my tooth pulp was so infected that the abcess would have exploded in 2 days if he hadn’t gotten to it today (and he is out of the office for the rest of the week YIKES!) It really wasn’t all that bad; no worse than getting a filling. I’m not even in that much post-op pain as long as I don’t put pressure on the tooth. The biggest bitch is going to be paying the bill. If you can’t afford the procedure pawn something, borrow the money, sell your first born (not really, but you get the picture)! You are not going to really feel better until you get that root canal.
Hi Everyone,
I felt the need to check this out because I woke up last night with an extreme toothache. I have never felt pain like this in my mouth before and it hurts like hell. This morning I ran to the bathroom and stubbed my toe on a 35 lb barbell. I was amazed b/c this did not phase me and my tooth hurt worse. It literally feels like someone drove a nail into my back molar. I have a lovely supportive girlfriend though who is sharing my lamentation. I am now going to get numbing gel and whiskey and see the emergency dentist tomorrow.
I feel all your pain,
MC
I have a hole in my wisdom tooth, and I think my nerve is exposed. I’m not of age to purchase alcohol, but my husband did for me. I’ve tried 99 Bananas, Tylenol authoritis, extra strength, and Pm. Benadryl, Goody powder, IBProfuen, Hydrocodine, Anbesol, and Penicilen and nothing seems to work. I am petrified of the dentist due to a bad experience, but I plan to go soon. I’m afraid it’s to late for my tooth. i’m tired of overdosing and I need help. I feel like god is punishing me. On top of this pain the whole left side of my face hurts right along with other teeth. Is their anything to ease my pain? HHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPP MMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEE PPPPPPPLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
For 3 years ive had psycho problems with my teeth giving the most(believe this) INSANE pain. NO ONE has suffered like I have. Yet the last 2 months have been hell; sometimes I lie there, begging (with all of my) the Lord to releive me from the pain of this cracked tooth. I can feel the holes and jagged edges with my tongue – ouch! sometimes I imagine that in those moments im being smashed in the jaw with a spade, cos it sure feels like that. What did I do to deserve this evil pain. its too much for a guy too take.
to the Toothache,
The bane of my life
ouuuuuuuuch!!! its weird that i was in excruciating pain last week then the pain just went away but it came back when i put cold liquid on it now there is mild pain luckily i can still sleep but the pain really comes out when i apply pressure to the tooth but i don’t feel any pain when i put liquid on it now how bloody strange.
I feel all you fellow tooth suffers!..I have this tooth pain that has been hurting for 3 weeks now, I refuse to go back to the dentist who so called fixed it for me last time, he was putting a crown on it, and then the next day I woke up in the most pain in the world then he tells me, oh well maybe you need a root canal!! MAYBE I NEED A ROOT CANAL?? I was pissed to say the least! I paid him over 400 dollors just the day before, and now the very next day, I MAY NEED A ROOT CANAL?? WTF?? couldnt he see that when he was working on my tooth THE DAY BEFORE?? I think he messed up and drilled to far or something, becuz like others I have read on here, he was getting assistant from another dentist!..Now I have to wait to see another so called professional…in the mean time I have been ODing on any and all pain pills I can get..some relief but my stomach is upset due to the pills and drinking ambosel by the gallon..I have found that the salt thing does give a temp relief, but i am gonna try to put the pill crushed rite on my tooth and see if that helps.. I having been begging GOD to help, I guess his emails are backed up due to I havent got a reply yet, but I do agree, I would rather give birth again than deal with this!!! and why does it wait till you wanna sleep to go full throtle???
i know how u guess feel i really don t know if it was a toothache but my teeth was killin me sooo badly i felt like killing my self it hurted so bad. I tried warm water with salt which help me for for 1 day ,and the next day i tried it did not work all alll. then i went to the hospital cuz the dentish were closed because of the jewish holiday.. the gave me codine and some antibiotic it help a little but not alot….Then i went to dentist right after that day .. I had a very bad infection whcih they had to pull my teeth out…….that was the day my pain was relived so happy… but i am not sure i might get A DRY SOCKET!!!!!!!! SCARED AS EVER…
wtf is wrong with you people? VODKA? first of all don’t take any pain killers and then drink alcohol. Where are you all from that vodka is the answer? LMAO at these posts. Now I have had the entire right side of my mouth feel like my gums are sore and throbbing. Turns out that it is definnitely a tooth I had a new filling put in. It was fine at first then was sensitive to cold and I could no longer chew anything slightly hard there. It also has made the tooth below it feel like it is sore. I guess it is common for one tooth to make it feel like many teeth are hurting. So if you feel like your gums are really sore and it is in more than one small area it is most likely a tooth that is dying. Don’t waste time going to a dentist. They will only send you to a endodontist if they do not do them. Most dentists do not do surgery so don’t waste your time. Call an endodontist and get the hell in there. I feel bad for you but those who have so many bad teeth an dare just taking it I have to laugh. Do whatever you can because once it dies completely
it will absess and that means infection and that my friends can kill you.
Just had a root canal done nearly 3 days ago on a tooth that had 3 cracks. Procedure was okay and tooth is just a little sore. It’s the other symptoms that are driving me crazy; tenderness on neck, pain on swallowing, “pinging” in ear — all on the same side as infected tooth. These symptoms were what led me to dentist to begin with (along with a painful toooth). Am on antibiotics, but am wondering how long until these other aches/pains go away? Also, could the prescription Motrin be causing the difficulty swallowing and pain in ear? Anyone else had something similar?
I have a severe pain in my fore teeth after exposing to cold weather. I can’t chew anything and pain is there all the time. I did not have this earlier till I come to a cold climate Pl. advise.
my tooth as been hurting for a couple weeks maybe a month or so
it will come for about a day or 2 then it will go then it will come back a few days later it at the bootm at the back can u please tell me whats wrong with it im in agony ???
First of all, I would have to say that it’s BECAUSE of your lack of attendance to the dentist regularly that is causing you the pain.
If you had had regular checkups, your local dentist should be able to pick up some of the holes and would have had preventitive measures at least to stop it from getting worse.
If you are ignorant enough to leave the swelling, abscess or hole in the mouth for a long time, YOU WILL AND CAN DIE FROM IT.
No joke here. I have seen people dying from something as simple as a tooth abscess.
If you think your dentist is not doing a good job, seek a second opinion. You can continue seeking opinions, and you have the right to.
But it’s not fair to slander dentists as blood suckers, who know nothing with the aim of just torturing and inflicting people with pain.
Like mentioned above, wanna prevent going to the dentist? Cut down on your sweets. Brush and floss regularly. See the dentist once a year at least. This can save you lotsa money and trouble.
Generally dentists are there to help you, and most of them know what they are doing. If in doubt, just question.
But it’s definitely unfair to create such a negative impression towards dentists to the whole public. It’s not doing anyone justice.
I am in a lot of pain. Part of my filling broke off about a year ago and the dentist just refilled it on top of the old filling instead of taking out the remaining filling in there. He said that the tooth was too fragile to take out all the old filling. Well that filling became loose and started moving around over the weekend and then it came out. I have so much pain. I have vicoden & neurotin and all kinds of alcohol. I have had Bells Palsy for 2 months now and my face is paralyzed on that side so I don’t know if the dentist will really want to stick a needle in it. But I am going to demand that they do this and do it tommorrow. Luckily I have FMLA at work because of the Bells Palsy and they can’t hold it against me for missing time with this tommorrow. I just want them to pull it this time, I don’t want anymore risk of this happening to this tooth again. I brush several times a day, floss and use mouthwash and see my dentist 2-3 times a year even without having pain, so I don’t neglect my teeth or deserve this nasty pain. Hopefully the rest of you will get some relief when you go to the dentist. Some say can’t afford the dentist. Well how much is your sanity and wellbeing worth. To be rid of this pain would be priceless to me. Guess that could be a mastercard commercial. Ice- free, small bottle vodka – $8 , your tooth ripped out & pain gone – priceless!
Glad i found this, I have had major tooth ache now for 5 weeks….Dentist can’t take out my tooth as it has to be done in Theatre at hospital as I take to much drugs, prednisolone steriod and methotrexate for sysytemic lupus and this can cause serious bleeding problems, so i am on waiting list for extraction.I am honestly climbing the bloomin walls with pain, taking paracetamols every 4 – 6 hours and a very strong opiate drug called tramadol slow release, this did seem to help at first but for the last 4 days, broken sleep and last night never slept at all, crying and doubled up in agony. TEMPTED to get string and slam the door,I can’t try the vodka as not allowed to drink any alcohol at all due to the sle effecting my kidneys.pain feels like all ower jaw right hand side and up face, cheeks and behind ear.so if anyone is suffering for days then you can imagine how I feel now into my 5th week…
HELP……… I can’t see the dentist unitl the first of next month… I’m putting aspirin in my tooth to stop the pain.. now that’s not working… how can I stop the pain for the next two weeks?…..
i believe that toothache is the worst thing that cud ever happen 2 a person, fuck me THIS SHIT HURTS and the worst thing about it i cant go 2 sleep and my boyfriend is fast asleep at the momemt, tried most of the tooth remedies they just dont seem 2 work except for nurofens(tablets) and guest what i aint suppose 2 take them coz im pregnant but i cant stand the pain if u’ve had a bad toothache u’ll understand where im coming from………….
I had a tooth capped twice, no just once, but evertime I lay down it throbs horribly. Does anyone have any ideas as to why and how can I help. I think we want to move. Has anyone had a similar cercumstance thar might help.
hello everyone.I feel the pain you are going through and let me tell you… i admire you. you see, im a marine in the USMC and were trained to block off pain. hell when i was in iraq i had a bullet right below my kneecap. i thought that was the worst pain possible… i was wrong. my two back molars have cavitys in them. one is deep and narrow the other is deep and wide with a side missing on it. the pain is constant. i could block it out at first but after 4 days of no sleep, and constant pain it gets just a little hard. if anyone has any suggestions id be very gratefull please dont make them up. only tell me them if youve actually tried them and they worked for you.thank you all.
God Bless
Whoever dubbed this PAIN an ACHE should be SHOT!!! Its like the difference between a splinter or getting ran over repeatedly by a TRAIN!!! Im not very religious but i’ll tell u what, between my Snotty, drooling, Sobbing, I sat rocking with a pillow on my head and promised God i’d go to church every day if he could just take the AGONY that is my impacted, broken, infected wisdom tooth AWAY!! I have suffered with other tooth agonies, but this one takes the CAKE! I am also 7 months pregnant with a high risk pregnancy and am limited to Tylenol and Orajel or Ambesol.( WHAT A JOKE!) IM sure by now that my poor baby is completely NUMB due to the amount of Benzocaine in my amniotic fluid! What the HELL!? If i WASNT pregnant, i’d be DRUNK by now on Vodka and i dont even DRINK! 2 winecoolers puts me to sleep. And besides, I dont even have a bottle here. Im a NURSE, have been for 7 years now, and we learn to rate pain on a scale of 1-10, well this pain here is like a friggin BILLION! My ear, my jaw, my neck, even my shoulder hurts like hell. I now have a LUMP under my jaw bone, and (oh did I mention its the middle of the nite?) I HAVE to suffer til at LEAST the morning. The ER wont TOUCH me cuz im pregnant. As if us Pregos dont have enuff shit to worry about! To all my fellow sufferers, Im here with u, in my little part of the world in New York state, and u would think that in our great age of technological advances that SOMEONE would actually INVENT something that might HELP stop the pain of a toothache? We send people and monkeys to the moon, and theres no OTC remedy for A FRIGGIN TOOTHACHE?>>> GOd help us all!!!!!!!!!!!
Help! Okay, I’ve got an abscessed tooth, and yes yes, I know, I need to see a dentist. Let me tell you baby, I want to…but I’m broke…so its not a choice right now. I think the abscess started in my very back tooth on the left, then infected the one in front of it…so a double abscess, really.
I want to die. Now that the pus bubble has popped, its not only excrutiating, its disgusting and humiliating b/c i live in a dorm and work at a day care…how horrible is it to be holding a five month old littl boy and try to coo at them and they recoil because your breath smells like pus???
sigh
I’ve been in crazy insane pain for well over a week. In the beginning I was trying the warm saltwater thing and it helped some, but now it hurts more than helps because my pus bubble has popped and there’s a nice little raw space in my mouth. I was told the pain would last about three days and the pus seeping out would take about a day, maybe a day and a half. Well let me tell you…nuh uh.
I have no Vodka, if i did i’m not of age and if i was of age i have no money. The crushed up aspirin thing sounds interesting, but I’ve been told since i’ve got the open wound it could cause an ulcer…so no…not going to happen. Because of this, I’m scared to do anything that actually requires putting something on the area, in case it got in the open sore.
So right now I’m living off Ibuprofin’ gargling constantly to clean the area, numb it and get rid of the TASTE OF PUS IN MY MOUTH….EW. And trying my best not to have nightmares of all of my teeth falling out of my head.
Does anyone have any suggestions that might help me in any way? I’m terrified and
Krazy Kate can you go to the emergency room? You need antibiotics stat, the infection will only get worse. Also call around to a few dentists. There are some great ones out there that will treat you if you are in severe pain and they will bill you. Don’t put heat on your face, try a bag of ice wrapped up in a washcloth, and some ibuprofin, take 4 200mg tablets it equals prescription strength. You also may want to look into clove oil. This stuff works wonders on toothaches and would be ok if it got into an open sore (natural antiseptic and pain reliever) It’s available at your local pharmacy in the toothpaste isle and is usually CHEAPER than oragel and works circles around it. In the mean time, I’m thinking about you and hope the pain subsides. It’s enough to drive someone crazy, and like someone said in a previous post I’m surprised we don’t see more toothache related suicide statistics. Yeah it huts that bad. I’m going to the dentist again today(another damn abcess). I’ve had 4 root canals in 6 months, along with 5 fillings, and a lot more work to go 🙁
Okay, blc4198, since you’ve had an abscess before maybe you can give me a bit of advice. I didn’t go to the dentist, even though i know i need to, cos i dont have the money for it right now. The abscess popped on its own over the weekend and I was really careful not to swallow any of it, and I gargled w/mouthwash constantly to clean it. And I’ve been sucking on the area so that the pus come out onto my tongue, cos even though its nasty, I dont want the stuff touching the teeth any more than it needs to. Now, Thursday, no more puss is coming out, and even last night it was almost completely blood and hardly any pus. I’m able to eat pretty well and there’s not that much pain in the tooth, cos see, the thing is…the abscess somehow came from the tooth that already had a root canal. So my question is, since it healed pretty well on its own and i’m almost positive the infection came from the cap, how bad am I fucking my mouth over by not going to the dentist until I can afford it. I do plan to get my teeth taken care of eventually. I just have to save up the money for it.
blc4198,
Good advice, glad to see someone talking some sense here
Placing aspirin in your mouth can cause “aspirin burn” aka ulcer even if you don’t already have an open sore.
krazykate1332,
Don’t worry about swallowing the pus, it’s only an inflammation product made up of a thin protein-riched liquid, dead white blood cells and dead germs, the pus itself does not cause infection, it is the result of an infection. The infected tooth is like a time bomb in your mouth but unfortunately nobody knows when exactly it’s going to blow up again. You would usually get temporary pain relieve after draining the pus from an abscessed tooth but because the root of the problem is not treated it will come back. The cap (I’m assuming it’s a crown that covers the tooth) does not cause infection it’s there to protect the tooth so it doesn’t crumble into bits and pieces after a root canal. If you already had a root canal done it could be either re-infected or a failed root canal (no matter how meticulously we clean the tooth during root canal treatment there is still a 3% chance that the root canal might fail). My advice is to call several dentists and ask if they offer a payment plan. My boss allows patients who can’t afford to pay off gradually or if you’ve any special skills you can negotiate with the dentist, one of my colleague had a landscaper done up her yard in exchange for dental treatment, and another one was offered a cattle (!).
Alicia’s Suffering,
Why don’t you go to the dentist and get an emergency root canal done? It only involves taking out the dead nerve and dressing the tooth with medication. It’s not a long term solution but it’ll help relieve the pain until the baby is due and it only costs 1/12 of the root canal fee, heaps better than drugging yourself and the baby. The amount of money you pay for analgesics that don’t work would have cost more than the emergency root canal. I’ve done a couple on pregnant women and they’re all doing well.
josh,
Don’t you marines in the US get free dental treatment? Go to the military dentist asap.
I just had a lower back wisdom taken out on Halloween night of all nights – now that was frightening! It was somehow infected becuase apparently the dentist realised half way through that he should really have sent me to the Hospital for the treatment. The treatment was pretty bad but I just hoped that day by day the pain would ease off. Anyway its day 6 and without paracetamol and ibuprofen the pain is unbelievable. The
painkillers do not always seem to work like last night. I have three children and the youngest would decide to start teething 2 days ago!
I am in the UK and luckily you can see a dentist fairly quickely here although there is a shortage of NHS dentists so they are all private and very expensive. Due tp my age – 42 – teeth extractions take longer to recover from. Still quite swollen and pain does not seem to be subsiding.Anyone in a similar position? I empathise with you all!
dentistdownunder,
I just wanted to say thank you. You’re very helpful and gave me solid advice without making me feel like a bad person for having a messed up tooth, which a couple of dentists have in the past. I’m not that scared of dentists, b/c I know they don’t get some kind of sick pleasure out of hurting me and only want to try to help me. I think it’s really cool that you come on here and give people professional advice in a completely uncondescending way. Thanks for telling me the bit about the pus. A lot of people told me I could like die from swallowing the stuff :-O
If the problem is my crown, where the tooth is messed up or something, would they simply pull it all out and leave nothing but gums there? Cos I’ve got to tell you, all it is is my wisdom tooth that i never got removed, so I’d just as well have it gone, you know? 😀
Im in the same position as you Sophie..
Its also been around a week since I got the pain , just as the cold weather was reaching Scotland.. Tried whisky and chewing on ibuprofen but the pain just keeps coming back.. Don’t know if the nerve ending will eventually die out and the pain will be gone for good , or if I’ll have to admit defeat and see a dentist within the next week or two..
Argh! About three months ago i went to the dentist about a hole in my tooth. They were going to extract it but once i told them im one to faint he decided not to do it. So about three months ago i got a letter from the dentist in wolverhampton so he could do it. I really cant wait. My tooth is sending shooting pains up my face to my ear. My cheeks swollen and i look like ive got a gobstocker shoved in there. I look like a right freak. Ive tried putting ice on my cheek to reduce the swelling but its only made it worse. Pain killers dont work until three hours into it and by then i only get an hour of numb relief. Ive gone without sleep these past few days and im so tierd. I cant get into the dentist until 3 days. Someone hit me back if you have any ideas on how to help me 🙁
Pleeeeeeeease! xx
If you are ignorant enough to leave the swelling, abscess or hole in the mouth for a long time, YOU WILL AND CAN DIE FROM IT.
No joke here. I have seen people dying from something as simple as a tooth abscess.
whatever you can because once it dies completely
it will absess and that means infection and that my friends can kill you.
🙁