I have tried oragel and some local stuff but i it did not work. I need something close to novacain cause im in a lot of pain and i cant afford to go see a dentist untill next month. My insurence does not kick in untill next month. So i need something that will hold me over untill then. I dont like the smell of oragel and need something that will last upto 4-8 hours so i can sleep at night also with out waking up. please find something that will help me ASAP ???????????????
2007-02-04 05:17:28 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Dental
Most Dentist are understanding about financial situations and insurance and are willing to work with patients. You say "teeth" but I'm thinking you may mean "tooth." If that's the case you may have a tooth that is abscessing. If it's keeping you up at night, there is nothing over the counter that will help, you need antibiotics. The Motrin and Advil will reduce the inflammation, but the infection needs the antibiotics to kill the bacteria causing the pain. You should consider going to see your dentist so he can give you an accurate diagnosis. In most cases, with a tooth going through pulpitis due to bacteria, an antibiotic will clear up the infection enough allowing the tooth to settle down for awhile, thus giving you that month for your insurance come into effect. This may be the route for you to go in your present situation. Although you may want to check your insurance coverage, it may not cover a root canal right now. So you may have to bite the bullet and make financial arrangement anyway. Better to just get you out of pain for now though, don't you think? Hope I've been of some help, and good luck with your tooth.
If all your teeth are hurting it could be that you are grinding or clenching your teeth at night. This can be painful and damaging to the enamel and nerve of your teeth. A lot of patients fracture or crack molar teeth from doing this. Most signs of this are extremely sore jaws or the teeth ache and sometimes even feel loose. You usually wake up feeling tired along with the sore jaws. If this is the case you need a night guard. You can purchase something that may be of help at Wal Mart or other stores. It's a sports appliance that you can heat an mold to your teeth. These aren't as effective as one's made from the impressions of your mouth that are taken by the dentist. But it will give you the comfort that you need for now and also let you diagnosis your own condition. We always advise patients to take Motrin or Advil along with the use of the appliance until they feel some relief. Then later when your insurance is in effect, you can have one made at your dentist office. Good luck and hope one of these will be of help to you.
We advise only taking 600 mg of Advil or Motrin at a time, and make sure to eat something to keep from upsetting your stomach causing another problem along with your teeth.
2007-02-04 06:11:06 · answer #1 · answered by HeatherS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take some Motrin or aleve (motrin take 3, aleve take 2) and then wait about 10-15 minutes and rub some extra strength Anbesol on the area that hurts. This will dull the pain until the drugs start to kick in. Remember when taking motrin or aleve, take it on a full stomach so you don't get an upset stomach. By the time the anbesol wears off, the medicine has started to kick in. Do that every six hours and see a dentist like right now. Make financial arrangement, most if not all places are willing to work with the patient if they do not have dental insurance.
2007-02-04 05:28:53 · answer #2 · answered by a_k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are answering you're own question already. If what you've done is not working, you're problem, most likely is a nerve going bad in a tooth. this will require a Dentist a no other remedies will alleviate the pain.
I would call a Dentist and this does require an emergency visit, tell him/her what's going on and also regarding you're Insurance. It's possible that they will let you pay over time since it is urgent.
If there is a nerve involved, it could get infected and any infection in mouth, can enter you're whole body and make you even sicker. Get help, you needed.
2007-02-04 05:28:12 · answer #3 · answered by SwissAK 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing else out there that will work better than orajel. Sinc you indicate that this has been going on for a while you need to see a dentist ASAP and get this checked out. You cannot just let this go on and depend on pain killers when something is obviously going on with your teeth. Look in the phone book for an emergency dentist or call your dentist first thing in the morning. Once again there IS NOTHING better out there than oragel.
2007-02-04 05:23:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
lol @ sleep disorder! From what you've said it sounds like the classic symptoms of an abscess (waking during the night, tender to percussion) and nothing apart from a course of antibiotics and getting it treated will help. You could try oil of cloves but this is will only reduce the pain slightly for a short period of time
2007-02-04 11:07:01 · answer #5 · answered by stacie_yst 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're waking up in the middle of the night because your teeth are hurting, you probably have a sleep disorder, go to the doctor after your insurance kicks in and ask him. Still might want to have a dentist's opinion and have a go-over, just in case, but my hunch is sleep disorder.
2007-02-04 06:13:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
OK, the person who said you have a sleep disorder is crazy.
You need to go to your dentist immediately. It would be a lot easier to go to the dentist now rather than next month when your treatment may be a lot more expensive and painful. Like everyone else said, your dentist will most likely find a solution so that you don't need to pay him right away.
2007-02-04 07:16:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You should try finding a dentist school they will be way cheaper than a regular dentist. I Know how it feels to be in pain and the only that helped was getting antibotics, try looking it up and you should do it soon because teeth decay really fast and you might end up losing them
2007-02-04 05:38:12 · answer #8 · answered by Nicole 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You could try putting a little clove oil (cooking kind) on it...When I had a bad toothache, the pharmacist said I could take an aspirin product (ie aspirin, ibuprofen, or naprosyn) with a tylenol together at the same time (ask your pharmacist)...Might be hard to last a month...Go to hospital ER if it gets really bad (for pain medicine)...but that would be a $2000 bill (just not off the bat).
2007-02-04 05:26:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try Advil. It works for most types of pain. You can take up to four at a time, since that would be the equivalent of the prescription strength.
2007-02-04 05:20:44 · answer #10 · answered by Random Precision 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋