One bad tooth can bring a lot of pain to a person and provoke a lot of problems. Toothache reduces the working ability and vital activity of a person, makes him refuse to eat, sleep, does not concentrate on anything, and causes a lot of other sufferings.
As a treatment, you can use drugs, as well as folk remedies. But their action is very often temporary, so you need to go to the dentist and identify the cause of tooth disease.
Causes of Toothache
Causes directly related to the teeth:
- neglected caries with an infection in the dental tissue can cause a sharp toothache, which manifests itself only under the action of irritants. Dental fissures, poorly sealed tooth, dentin exposure in the cervical region of the tooth are the main factors of toothache;
- pulpitis causes spontaneous toothache. It can occur during a meal, under the action of irritants on the affected dentin, as well as in a calm state, especially at night, and it is a continuous aching in nature. A characteristic indicator of pain is to spread it to the ear or to the temporal part, and it is impossible to sustain this pain for a long time;
- periodontitis causes aching and acute pain attacks, which are pulsating and increase when you touch the tooth. The gums are inflamed and swollen, and the tooth is loosened;
- with mechanical trauma. Pain occurs some time after injury. Pain associated with nerve obstruction;
- pain when teething in children.
Pain, manifested from the defeat of neighboring formations: nerve endings, bones, etc.:
- trigeminal neuralgia;
- headache and migraine;
- ear otitis;
- antritis, frontitis;
- heart disease: myocardial infarction and ischemic heart disease;
- neuritis of the facial nerve.
Emergency help with toothache
When an acute toothache occurs, the first thing to do at home is to refuse to eat food and brush your teeth, since food particles cause pain.
Next, put a piece of ice on the cheek in place of the patient's tooth. This leads to the freezing of the tooth and temporarily relieves severe pain. It is also possible to make a grid of iodine on the cheek of the sick tooth.
A piece of salted lard or fresh beetroot attached to a bad tooth will relieve pain. Relax the pain syndrome roadside sheet or its purified root. Rinsing a tooth with vodka can also reduce pain.
If the above methods have not been able to alleviate the situation, it is allowed to use mouth rinsing with freshly prepared broth of calendula herb. You can use a cotton compress applied to the affected area.
At home, an easily accessible and effective method is washing the mouth with sea water with baking soda and a few drops of iodine. It reduces pain and disinfects the oral cavity.
You can moisten cotton wool with a few drops of valerian, mint and camphor, attach to the aching tooth.
Drugs for toothache
What medications will help quickly at home? Medicines have different effects on each person. Some can eliminate pain with aspirin, while others even strong tablets may not help with pain syndrome. Therefore, below will be a list of medicines for their action in ascending order:
- Analgin. Used with moderate tooth pain. You can apply up to four tablets per day. Start with 0.5 part of the tablet and use the rest for an hour. The tablet is used not only inside, but also by applying on a sore point;
- Paracetamol and aspirin. Also used for weak pain syndromes;
- Nurofen. Up to six tablets can be used per day. Helps with increased and acute pain for eight hours;
- Ketanov. These are the strongest remedies for various types of pain. Help in the removal of acute toothache. The effect lasts for more than eight hours.
Also help numb the drugs: Nise, Pentalgin, Valocordin, Spazmalgon.
How to eliminate toothache during pregnancy?
To get rid of toothache during pregnancy is recommended in the following ways:
- Rinse the sick tooth with a warm solution of salt, soda, tincture of strong tea, decoction of chamomile, calendula, sage;
- Powder on the tooth of clove powder;
- Attach garlic in a grated form to the diseased tooth or on the wrist in the pulsation zone;
- Rinsing a tooth with beet juice;
- Hydrogen peroxide solution can relieve swelling and inflammation;
- Use dental drops. Impose on the tooth cotton wool moistened in the solution;
- Medicines use with caution. Allowed to take aspirin, paracetamol, but-silo.
What can relieve toothache in a child?
- First you need to persuade the child to rinse his mouth with water and salt and hold the solution in the mouth for more than a minute, repeating the procedure after a couple of hours. Sometimes only this tool can relieve pain in a child’s tooth;
- Massage the top of the ear shell;
- If there is a hole in the tooth, you can put a fleece with mint oil, or a solution of propolis, but only if the child is not allergic to these products. You can not take a child with acetylsalicylic acid and other painkillers, as they can help with pain, but can also negatively affect the functioning of internal organs;
- At four years of age, paracetamol and panadol are allowed;
- Do not feed your baby solid food, and allow water to drink only at room temperature. In no case can not warm the tooth, as this will strengthen the inflammatory process and the pain itself;
- Distract the child, lighten the mood, including a cartoon or playing a favorite game. Do not postpone the visit to the children's dentist.
Folk remedies for pain in the tooth
What folk remedies soothe toothache:
- Green tea with garlic. For this 1.5 tbsp. spoons of tea pour boiled water, after 10 minutes, add 5 cloves of grated garlic. After 15 minutes, the resulting infusion caress the tooth. The pain disappears instantly. You can use this method several times a day;
- Pasta of salt, garlic and onions. Salt, grated onion and garlic are taken in equal proportions. All components are well mixed, and the resulting mixture is applied to the tooth. After a couple of minutes, the pain releases. It can also be used several times a day;
- A solution of iodine and salt. 200 ml of warm water, 0, 5 tbsp. spoons of salt, 6 drops of iodine. Used to rinse a tooth, the pain goes away after a few minutes. Rinse need three times a day;
- Pumpkin tail. Brew and insist for 15 minutes. Rinse. After this procedure, tooth numbness occurs, and the pain subsides;
- Alcohol tincture of propolis. A few drops of tincture are poured onto the cotton wool and applied to the aching tooth.
Acupressure for toothache
Massaging certain points with a toothache is an effective method of saving from this disease. Proper execution can be a good way. 
countering intolerable sensations at a time when it is not possible to purchase a drug. There are several treatment points:
- on the back of the hand, between the thumb and forefinger. It is necessary to act on it within two to three minutes. Massaging is carried out by pressing with the thumb of the other hand. Press down until a red spot appears on the skin;
- on the index finger, on the left side of the nail. Massaging is carried out before the onset of pain. This method improves overall health and stops pain in the tooth;
- in the deepening of the left cheek where the jaws are joined. It is freely felt when opening the mouth. It is necessary not to press hard with your index finger. After pressing five times, and massage in a circular motion at least thirty times, or until the pain in the tooth eases;
- on the palm, between the middle and ring finger. Press the finger of the other hand with a fingernail until a feeling of painful discomfort occurs in this area;
- on the wrist, at the point of probing the pulse. Apply grated horseradish or garlic to this place and bandage them tightly for thirty minutes.
Conspiracy to toothache
To start reading the conspiracy, it is necessary to make several elementary manipulations with your mind:
- get rid of dubious thoughts and morally prepare for healing. You need to believe that this method can help;
- find and localize the focus of pain, imagine its shape, color, density;
- tune in to the positive and alter the pain. Chat with her, minimize its volume, change to a more pleasant color;
- replace definitions. Change "pain" to "whining", "pulsating" and so on;
- correctly spell the words of the plot. In this case, it is allowed to take a small conspiracy on the text, to pronounce it more than three times, to perceive each word as the desire of its own consciousness.
Plot 1
Attach the index finger to the place with a bad tooth, reading the plot seven times in a row:
"As the sun falls red beyond the horizon and is no longer visible, as the bright-faced month disappears in the sky, so the pain went away after them and did not return."
Plot 2
Very simple plot. It is necessary to pronounce clearly, without doubt in the power of these words:
"A month in the sky, a sun in an oak tree, stand a worm in a tooth. Amen."
Dentist recommendations
When fear of visiting the dental office for a long time, there are problems of the teeth and pain associated with them.
In order to prevent there is a need to apply the following rules:
- Eliminate or reduce the consumption of sweet and sour foods;
- Do not chew hard objects, resulting in injuries to the teeth;
- Rinse your teeth with non-alcoholic means;
- To regularly clean the teeth and tongue;
- Twice a year to make examinations of teeth at the expert.
There are many different ways that help get rid of toothache at home. This use of medical and folk remedies, the use of massage and plots.
But all these tools are only assistants in the treatment of dental problems. Therefore, a timely visit to the dentist will help save a bad tooth and forget about the suffering it brings.
And some more tips on how to relieve a toothache at home - in the next video.
