General Tips for Tooth pain relief

Your tooth hurts, so you really need tooth pain relief. The question, however, is – how to get that pain relief? Well, we guess that it is impossible to tell you who is in pain to just calm down. The pain can be extraordinarily excruciating, and not everybody has enough willpower to control his body and mind to that degree. Sometimes visiting a dentist is out of question, as well, – for example, if the tooth starts aching during night time or during your holiday when you are out of town so we need to be aware of alternative solutions.

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Identify The Causes For The Tooth Pain First

Okay, so let’s start with identifying the reasons why your tooth started aching as why search for a tooth pain relief if the exact causes are unknown, indeed (common sense also says, that the methods may vary depending on whether you want abscessed tooth pain relief or broken tooth pain relief, too,  for example)? The most common reasons why toothache could occur are various, but, one way or another, the causes can be put into either of the two categories:

• the dental causes;
• the non-dental causes;

Non Dental Causes

Yes, there are non-dental causes to the tooth pain as well as dental causes. Well, the non-dental causes are usually the results of the problems with your health in general – problems with the heart, as the most common example. These cases require professional help, and you definitely cannot rely on the over-the-counter medications if the problems are so severe.

Dental Causes

Toothache can occur, for example, because of cavity in your teeth, due to the fracture, chipping or similar physical damage of your teeth, due to the problems with your gum or the bones surrounding the teeth, due to the TMJ, due to the dental abscess, etc.. Those are all dental causes.

Look into the mirror – see if any defects in your teeth or the periodontal areas are visible. Other than that, see, for example, if your teeth start aching only mildly when you eat something cold or hot. If so, one of the possible reasons can be the erosion of the enamel of the tooth. Sometimes, it can mean the irritation of the cavity, though, and sometimes it may be due to the gum inflammation. The need for wisdom tooth pain relief is easier to identify – one of those four wisdom teeth of yours hurt, and for whatever the reason they do so the dentists  just extract them, anyway. Of course if you seek professional help it will more than likely resolve your doubts.

How Severe is The Toothache

Now, regardless if you understand the exact causes of your tooth pain or not, you should still identify the level of severity of it – mild, moderate or critical tooth pain, where mild manifesting in increased sensitivity that usually surfaces when you chew or drink something hot or cold, moderate being more excruciating that is also felt when you chew something (for example, due to the inflammation of the dental pulp, which later can result in dental abscess), and critical level of tooth pain (fracture of the tooth, dental abscess, etc.) where you need to visit a dental clinic. Good luck getting trying to get broken tooth pain relief without visiting a dentist, in other words. Well, knowing the causes and the type of your tooth pain is surely good as it at least can tell you that if you don’t fix those causes the pain will reoccur sooner or later, but now let’s get to the actual tooth pain relief methods.

Tooth Pain Relief Home Remedies

Basically, from what we know, the tooth pain of the mildest conditions can be relieved with over-the-counter medications pretty effectively. Moderate level tooth pain is hard to control with such methods, but they can still be somewhat effective. The critical level of tooth pain is best to be treated by a dentist and immediately at that – hurry, there is a chance that you can still save your aching tooth.

Most usually, people use general pain killers, or the analgesic, in other words, to relieve tooth pain. Such products include ibuprofen, Anadin Extra, paracetomol and others.. Ibuprofen is great for one reason – it deals with the inflammation and the pain (and inflammation often accompanies toothache), but other products have also been recommended by many other people.

However, you should follow the instructions on those over-the-counter medications very carefully – if you overdose yourself with either of these products, expect only bad consequences. For example, ibuprofen, if taken without any restraint, can be detrimental to your kidney, and acetaminophen at enormous doses is very bad for your liver. Also, if you plan to use two products at the same time – figure out beforehand if they can be combined or not. The stories of people almost dying due to the stupidly wrong usage of these over-the-counter medications are real, so don’t be so careless.

As you can see, though, the products that we recommend can be used for problems not only with your teeth – Anadin Extra, for example, can be used to reduce pain in your back, ulcer pain and other similar problems. Some people have reported that it is also good for reducing fever, as well.  However, sometimes, as we’ve said, if your pain is too critical these over-the-counter medications will not help – for example, those who seek wisdom tooth pain relief at the stages when it is not possible to achieve so without pulling out the teeth,  will get disappointed.

Other Methods for Tooth Pain Relief

Well, there are definitely other ways to get a relief to tooth pain. For example, you can use clover oil – the natural anaesthetic. Basically, you pick two clove leafs and put them to the offensive area. Then, you press the leaves, so that the juice, the natural anesthetic, comes out to soothe your problems. Russian people, for example, like to use warm sage mixtures – they rinse their mouth with them and the pain subsides. Those are one of the many natural methods to relieving tooth pain.

Also, you can try brushing your teeth lightly (brushing too hard is bad – it can result in gum recession, for example), as the toothpaste can soothe your pain, although for only a little bit, and you can also try to floss your teeth – sometimes, the pain is caused by the food leftovers that irritate the dental cavity. Cold water and sucking in the air can also help, sometimes, – although don’t expect these to be very effective methods.

Preventing The Tooth Pain

You probably should take this as a lesson not to overlook visiting your dentists regularly. If necessary, if the problems are really bad, do it every 3 months, not 6. Yes, you may not like the dentists, but avoiding them forever is not a very good life strategy. You can, certainly, achieve somewhat satisfactory results with the above methods to get general and mildly abscessed tooth pain relief, but if the causes for the tooth pain are not treated, the pain will resurface sooner or later.

Other than that you should brush your teeth regularly – whether you use the electrical toothbrushes or the usual ones is up to you. Maybe reading our electric toothbrush reviews can help you with that. Rinse your mouth with special mouthwashes, if the water in your area, for some reason, is not of the best quality. Also, avoid sugar and floss regularly – we have seen the teeth of a very old woman, whose teeth have remained healthy, and all she did was follow the right diet, check with the dentist regularly, and brush/floss her teeth regularly.