Ouhhh ! I have a really bad toothache and can't get into see the dentist until next week. What can I do?

Answer 1

Go to the emergency room to get a doctor to perscribe you anti-bioitics. The pain in your tooth is being caused by an infection. The only way to aleviate the pain is to get medication before the tooth can be extracted or repaired.

Answer 2

I have had some bad experiences with my teeth as well, so maybe I can help you out. First it depends why you have the toothache. If you have a cavity, the easiest thing to use is clove oil. It taste like crap, but it will help. When I had a tooth pulled, I got a dry socket, because the blood clot fell out and the nerve was exposed. It hurt like hell. I finally got back into the dentist and instead of telling me how to fix it myself, he made me wait 2 days and pay 60 bucks for another visit. Basically, all he did was cut a gauze pad down into a small strip, soak it in clove oil and stuff it into the hole in my gums, where the tooth used to be. The dentist has a stronger version of clove oil in his office, but store bought will work just fine. If you have a small cavity, I would just soak a small gauze pad in clove oil and bite down on it where it hurts. Change the pad when the ache comes back. Trust me on this, it is instant relief. Oral Gel Maximum Strength will help alot with this also. If you have an infection of the nerve inside the gums, then you are in trouble because not much will help with that until the infection is gone except narcotics. Visit your dentist office, or hospital, if it bad enough, and if you are lucky they will write you a script for enough to last until your appointment. If they won't you could always try and score some from a friend. I had to go this route once when my tooth was killing me and the dentist wouldn't write me a script for anything. Darvocet, vicodin,percocet, lorcet, lortab, oxycontin, roxycet, are ms contin are a few drugs considered narcotic and prescribed for pain. I am not advising you to hunt them out on your own because you could overdose or become addicted to them. I also know how bad a tooth ache can be and what it can drive you do. I have had everyone of mine pulled because in the course of a year or two they just went down hill, and I was gettin one cavity after another for no good reason. So if you do go this route be careful and always look at the amount of narcotic in the pill. You can tell this by the numbers on the pill container. The drugs mixed with tylenol or asprin will have two numbers, something like this 05/500. The smaller number is usually the narcotic and the larger is the tylenol. Some pills will only contain one number because they are strictly narcotic. Either way, never take anything over 2.5 of narcotic to start. If the narcotic is a 5 break it in half to see if that is enough. If not take a 5 next time. I have a long history of drug abuse when it comes to narcotics, because of some bad decisions when I was younger. So I have a pretty good idea of what I am talking about. Again though, I wouldn't advise you to go this route, but if you do I hope this will help to keep you safe.

Answer 3

All the answers are rubbish-- a clove wont help unless there is an open cavity for the clove oil to get into;the person who suggested an abcess couldnt possibly know if that was the problem (therea re lots of causes of toothache other than abcesses), and the others who just want to tell you their own (often exaggerated) horror stories are doing just that.
If it is bad with pressure, it could be an abcess- find someone who has some antibiotic;an open cavity MIGHT work with a clove,but if it is just constant;and possibly worse for hot/cold, try alternating aspirin with paracetamol every 2 hours if your ok with both of those- if it works, carry on with them regardless till monday-

Answer 4

This really works trust me! Take a clove and place it on the tooth that is sore, bite down so that it moulds around the tooth or into the hole. The pain will go away! Shame i hate toothache!

Answer 5

Well for starters you can put there some drops of alcohol tincture so it will numb that part of the mouth. You can use alcohol tincture extracts from plants, and don't use a lot of it. This will also disinfect the area, but it is not a long time solution, because your pain can have different causes, not necessary an infection.

Answer 6

Ask a friend for a numbing/anasthetic substance. Cocaine is probably the easiest to acquire and most effective (just put some in the affected area don't actually "hit" it mind you) Unless you know a pharmacist than can "fill you in" for some Novocain. Or you can just ask your dentist for a prescription. Whichever you find easier.

Answer 7

See a dentist!

A "Toothache" can usually be referred to as pain that is felt around the teeth and or jaw. The cause of a toothache in most cases is by either problems with your jaw and or tooth. In most cases you (and I am talking from experience here) you would just leave it and wait for the pain to subside, but this isn't the correct thing to do.

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Answer 8

Rinse your mouth with very cold water and/or put a bag of ice (or anything cold) on your cheek on the side of the painful tooth, this will eliminate the pain instantly.

Pain killers like Aspirin and Panadol are effective as well.

Answer 9

Rub clove oil on and around the tooth and take some Advil. You can find clove oil in the natural choices center of your local grocery store. The taste isn't the most pleasant but it is very numbing.

Best of luck:o)

Answer 10

Legal prescription painkillers are the ONLY thing I have found that put a dent in the pain, personally.