Sometimes an urgent visit to the dentist has to be postponed because of a weekend or a holiday, the need to sign up for an appointment in advance. In such cases it is useful to know several effective ways how to calm a toothache at home. Using simple but effective methods of fighting inflammation will help prevent infection of the mucous membranes and endure until the day of visiting a specialist.
How quickly to calm a strong toothache?
The best way to calm the pain syndrome for a long time is to take medication. For relief of toothache any analgesics, except for Aspirin and its analogues, will do. Recommended preparations:
- Ketanov ;
- Sedalgin;
- Nimesil;
- Pentalgin;
- Baralgin;
- Sigan;
- Ibalgin;
- Actasulide;
- Nurofen;
- Coxtral;
- Auronym;
- Bonifen;
- Dolomin;
- Thoradol;
- Nyz;
- Faspik;
- Aponil;
- Ketolac;
- Adolor;
- Ibufen;
- NATO;
- Aulin;
- No pain.
It is worth noting that the application of one of the above means will have to be stopped at least 3 hours before the visit to the dentist, so that the doctor, if necessary, could correctly assess the degree of inflammation and make an injection of anesthetic for further manipulation.
How to calm a toothache at home without pills?
If there are no analgesics in the medicine cabinet or their reception is impossible for any reason, it is worthwhile to use the classical method of solving the problem in question.
Here's how to calm an intense toothache at home:
- Thoroughly clean teeth and gums from food debris with a soft brush and dental floss. Maintain the oral cavity in this state constantly.
- Do not chew the sick tooth. For a while, you can generally switch to liquid and semi-liquid foods.
- Rinse the mouth with a copious amount of warm soda or brine (1 teaspoon per glass of water) with the addition of 3-5 drops of iodine tincture.
- Keep a small volume of strong alcoholic beverage - vodka, whiskey or cognac in the area of the affected tooth.
- Regularly apply a cold compress or a piece of ice wrapped in cheesecloth to the cheek on the affected side.
- Ice can also be absorbed near the damaged tooth, but only with not too sensitive mucous membranes of the oral cavity.
It is important not to take any antibiotics, do not conduct warming procedures, and do not apply anything directly to the affected tooth, as such actions can provoke severe inflammation, attachment of bacterial infection and suppuration of the gums.
What else can you sooth a toothache?
An interesting way to cope even with a pronounced pain syndrome is the impact on acupuncture points, proposed by Chinese healers hundreds of years ago. For example, rubbing the V-shaped ice on the arm (between the forefinger and the thumb) for 5-10 minutes, promotes a rapid and prolonged anesthetic effect.
In addition, temporarily anesthetize the tooth helps pressing and rubbing on the following points:
- at the outer corner of the eye;
- on the temple;
- over the upper tip of the ear;
- on the corner of the jawbone (above the lymph node);
- under the lobe;
- between the ulna and the arm (from the outside);
- in the center of the forearm;
- under the patella;
- in the middle of the gastrocnemius muscle;
- 10 cm above the ankle;
- near the nail on the anonymous and index finger on the leg;
- on the hollow of the chin from the side (along the line from the corner of the lips).
Exposure to biologically active zones contributes to the correction of the nervous system, resulting in pain impulses due to local irritation of the nerves responsible for their transmission to the centers of the brain.