How To Ease A Toothache Articles | Remedy

By: Richard Bleuze

Toothaches are a common problem and can occur without a warning.   Most people don't think about toothaches until they actually get one, and then they will do just about anything to get ride of the toothache pain.

Toothaches have two main causes. One is when a cavity compromises the inside of the tooth and exposes a nerve ending before it is dead. The other is when the fibers holding your tooth in its socket become infected (called an abscess). This will help you treat the pain from both.

Below are a few things that you can do to ease the toothache for a week or so:

1. Chew on a clove of garlic.
2. Buy some clove bud and cotton swabs.  It can be found at most herb shops. It comes in a small vial with a tiny dropper built in.  If you cannot find it, buy clove at the local grocery store.  It's not as concentrated so it's not nearly as effective but it works.
3. Apply a few drops of clove bud on the cotton swabs. Apply it directly to the area that hurts as well as around it.  Toothache pain is often displaced, making it seem like it is coming from somewhere it's not.  Only a few drops of clove bud are needed.  It may burn.  That's normal since it deadens nerve endings by overpowering them.  The burning lasts for less than a minute and is not as bad as the toothache.   Using clove bud several times a day for months may cause permanent nerve damage.  So if the pain lasts longer than a week, see a dentist.
4. Buy some non minty Listerine.
5. Take a sip of the Listerine and hold it in the affected region for two minutes.  This will burn but it will work and is worth it.  Listerine will usually have to be reapplied every 1/2 hour to an hour. 
6. Cinnamon is very helpful for toothaches, I dont know what it does, but it helps the pain.
7. Rinsing aching area with baking soda dissolved in warm boiled water help.  In fact it helped me this morning.  Salty water should help in preventing infection.  So rinsing mouth with baking soda and salt dissolved in warm boiled water is double beneficial.
8. Use some good Irish whiskey or Scotch to numb the area until you can get to a dentist.
9. Take a pain-killer.
10. Redirect the pain signals by rubbing ice on the back of your hand, between your index and thumb.
11. If the above don't help, then make an appointment with a dentist.