If you are here because you or someone you know is suffering from mouth abscess then let me tell you that this was a perfectly avoidable situation had you taken better oral care. We actually put ourselves into this situation (including myself!) and then regret and repair. Mouth abscess can happen to people at any age as long as their teeth are intact. People with dentures can rest in peace!
Doctor may not be able to give you an immediate appointment. Until then, here are some home remedies if the toothache is unbearable. Mix 1/4-teaspoon of potassium carbonate in 1/2 glass of water and use this solution as a mouthwash. Using it three to four times should reduce the pain in a few hours. This alkaline solution usually destroys the bacteria. Many people who suffered toothache due to mouth abscess in the past have unanimously Okayed this remedy to get rid of pain until the doctor’s help arrives. For some people clove power stuffed in the cavity has also helped.
Another home remedy for mouth abscess is, if you have tooth ache or swelling in the gums immediately take to drinking two- three glasses of water and continue drinking a glass or two of water every 20-30 minutes, the pain will start to reduce after a while (The process works because your body absorbs the water through the colon) and will perhaps completely subside.
The main cause of mouth abscess is inappropriate dental hygiene. People who don’t take proper dental care or don’t visit the dentist for check ups regularly suffer mouth abscess. Bad oral hygiene leads to cavities and cavities if left unattended to give rise to a further complication called mouth abscess. The infection begins at tooth level cavity and if not attended within proper time, can spread to mouth, face, throat or jaw. As an exception you can also get mouth infection or abscess after injuring a tooth by accident. Another home remedy is that you mix oil of cloves and peroxide cures the tooth abscess.
The best home remedy for mouth abscess is prevention. Understand the importance of oral hygiene. Don’t be in a hurry to brush and floss. Don’t postpone your visit to the doctor. And for an unforeseen situation dental insurance proves to be God sent.
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Listen, I found the best. Ignore all the other stuff, I promise this will work everytime instantly. And even for a couple weeks minimum. But remember, before i tell you the quick fix, start looking for anti biotics. HinT: the pet stores use them for Fish aquariums. Anyways, take something and find the exact area of pain. Dry area with cotton, toliet paper whatever, and apply super glue to the entire area. Use the ‘Gel’ kind. It wont hurt you, i use it always. If you dont feel the pain almost instantly stop throbing, then the area is still exposed and needs to be covered. Sometimes though you may think that its one tooth when actully its the one next to it. make sure that you get between then if that is where the cavity is. And see a dentist if you can afford it. Hope this helps i know it will better than any other remeidy.
Well, I felt this coming for the last three days, but I am broke, no insurance and have a swollen cheek. So now what? I begin madly surfing the net for home remedies and I can only prey to the Divine that something, anything works. So, I have been taking 200mg motrin tablets like candy for the last 2 days. I finally found an number that helped with them. 800mg. Thats the prescription strength last time I looked. Warm water with lots of sea salt (that I got out from the Instant Ocean box under the fish tank), and finally a tea bag, hot and wet or dry from my experience. My abscess has not come to a head yet, but it will, it always does. So I know it is only going to get worse. But when it evens looks like its going to form that little bubble on my gum…. pin prick here I come. Easy though, and make sure it is sterile. That liquid that seeps out is disgusting, but it sure makes it feel better to spit it out than hold inside your face for that long.
This usually holds me over for about a year until it happens again.
And BTW, it does not come back any worse than it had any previous times. It is always the same pain and the same place, and the same procedure to relieve it. I have had doctors all my life tell me to finish all the antibiotics or the infection will come back twice as bad. I think they just want you to have to come back for more so they can make money.
I have a abscess tooth on the upper right side of my mouth. I started using the Tea Bag and My Right Cheek has become extremely swollen and the inside of my mouth has huge white pus area’s and I am wondering if this is something I should of expected. I have had the abscessed tooth for months with a boil on the gum. It appears that the boil has burst and the infection has moved throughout my cheek. I will continue to use the teabags because it seems to be drawing out the infection.
I have been so pissed off with the Dentist office I had went to. They made me feel worse. They wouldn’t do anything without me giving them several hundred dollars. The root canal with a crown was over $1600.00 and I told them that my Dental Insurance will go into affect on January 1, 2010 and that I would have to wait. The girls that work at the dentist office were trying to tell me that I need the more expensive crown and I said I want to go the cheapiest route due to finances.. They just weren’t going to have it!! So now I am seeking out a new Dentist and I won’t put up with anyone Bull S**t…It seems that if you have a medical emergency a doctor is required to give you the medical attention you need. If you have a dental emergency and Dentist does nothing unless you can open your wallet and give them the money right then and there.. I hate Dentist!!!
Thanks,
KLC
Try a dental school for cheaper care
Comfort Dental is amazing…they really understand insurance or lack there of and work with you. I had an absess under my left bottom back tooth that developed overnight and I went to the ER…they gave me antibiotics and I took them…by the next morning when I woke up my whole jav was swelled and full of absess and it had also spread into my neck….my fiance wanted me go to the dentist but no insurance and finances are tight…my aunt suggested COMFORT DENTAL and I called…they got me in that day on a Saturday and took care of me……pulled the tooth and drained the infection…even helped me out financially with payments and discounts….the dentist was awesome he called me on sunday to make sure I was alright and gave me his cell if I had any problems!!! I definately suggest COMFORT DENTAL to anyone for all dental needs!
If you want substandard care visit comfort dental! bunch of newbies right out of dental school with lack of experience. Your tooth may have been able to be saved.
The fact that a dental office got someone in on such short notice, ON A WEEKEND, is incredible to me. Comfort Dental took care of the problem and she was no longer in pain nor was she being harassed by a dentist/dental asst. to get an expenisve crown instead.
The only problem with dental schools is not all of them can offer the same services. One that trains dental hygienists is more limited than one that trains full dentists.
Listen, it’s not the Dentist’s fault you do not have insurance. Do you actually think that the dentist should treat you for free. That’s the problem with people like you. You think because you have a problem everyone should pay for it and fix it. Shame on you!!!!!
Dentists profit at …ummm 98% and we are supposed to be able to afford it. gimme a break.
Kathleen is absolutely 100% correct and congratulations to Denise you have won the “Most Uncaring and Useless Response Award”, that rocks for you for you, you must be very proud, way to go!
The fact is that people that have money usually think it’s somehow the fault of less fortunate people that they do not have money and can not afford to pay a dentist the hundreds or thousands of dollars they require up front if you can not afford to have insurance.
I make less then $7 an hour, there are no better jobs in my area. I’ve worked this job for 13 years now and my boss would like to pay me much more but the business can not afford it. I help take care of my mother and have to make sure she is comfortable and fed as well as try to feed myself at least once every other day, plus pay tons of medical bills. Luxury is not something I can even afford to imagine. Now Denise, tell me out of about $250 that I earn every 2 weeks what do I sacrifice to pay dental insurance? And please do not reply with an intellectual gem like “move to a better economy” because if you didn’t understand my previous statement I will try to say it slower for you, I-DO-NOT-HAVE-THE-MONEY!
Meanwhile I heard that one of the dentists in town just bought a new sail boat because his old one was out of date, I feel so bad for him, how would he have survived?
Furthermore don’t give me crap about, “Well the dentist worked hard in college and deserves to make that much.” Yeah I tried to go to college too, I had to drop out because the man in my household was dying and I needed to get back to work and help support the family. I’ve worked much much much harder since then then the dentist did in college trust me!
So because of these unfortunate circumstances people like Kathleen and I deserve to suffer? It’s our fault? We should feel ashamed to inconvenience the wealthy dentists? Thank you for enlightening us!
Wow typical liberal with the entitlement attitude! Dentists actually have huge overhead. And when you are nice to them they are usually understanding and can put you on payments.
the only dentist i have found that did payments encouraged me to get the root canal and temp filling done then and there, instead of giving me antibiotics to reduce infection first, then only gave me a note for work that day, even though he acknowledged it clearly had been a problem for at least a week. i worked in a call center so i could not work that much pain in my mouth, but since i didn’t have a dr.’s note they fired me and i couldn’t get the crown financed. really understanding. i just started a new job, so no insurance.
dental guy, you are a true d-bag, I know there is overhead but not the amount you charge. SOme day karma will rear its ugly head and I hope you see a better light. By the way I am a gop supporter, this has nothing to do with politics.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! First, I am a died-in-the-wool conservative. I am also 67 yrs old and because of circumstances beyond my control (way too many to elaborate on at this time), I have lived on the fringes of poverty my whole life, yet I have never applied for any type of government aid! But right now I am trying to keep my diabetes under control without the aid of teeth in my mouth (all broken off at the gum line because of one of my many health problems). And the reason I am in that boat is because dentists are the most greedy profession on the planet. People in the same category as “dental guy” show their true lack of brain power by making the comments they make. We need to just forgive them — being an organ donor is commendable, but someone should have told him that the brain is an essential organ until after death!!! Even the law recognizes that a person who acts in ignorance of the facts cannot be held criminally responsible. So just pity these people who think they know everything when in fact they are simply ignorant despite possible formal education.
Sorry, things would be better if poverty stricken people like yourself would vote FOR WORKERS, go read a politics book and then understand how you have forwarded this dire situation you are in to many others.
Truly an uninformed comment. Perhaps you should go back to school and learn a few things. Dental work is very expensive, time consuming and a skilled profession. Many years of post-secondary education with a large debt load involved. Years dedicated to patient care, education, new scientific advances beyond the dentistry of bygone years. I think people have to take responsibility for their actions at some point and perhaps pick up a toothbrush once in awhile.
Ok yeah thats crap, I know a dentist through my family and my boyfriends mokm worked for a dental office for years and they make lots off of others dental work, pretty much ot was broken down for me that a meer 25% gove or take is for overhead exspenses and then the rest is the dentist, you see thats how they get to have really nice cars and ,more than one house and im not saying there is anything wrong with that but to say something as ignorant as of how liberal than that just makes you biased and full of shit. So get off you high horse
Wow, spoken like a typical closed-minded “conservative”! Self-centered, self-righteous, self-serving and arrogant. Keep in mind, while you are spewing that BS about overhead, there are quite a few dentists on this site. I, myself, am a dentist and c an attest to the fact that the “overhead” you speak of hardly accounts for the inflated cost of dental work. It simply is not true because if that were the case then every dentist would charge pretty much the same. The truth of the matter is the cost of dental work is simply a matter of ethical practices.
Lastly, to all of you “Armchair Financial Advisers” who were so quick to spew out your “wisdom” to those less fortunate than you, let me help you pull your heads out of your asses. You should be nothing but GRATEFUL and HUMBLE because there is NOTHING and I mean NOTHING but pure luck that separates you from being in the type of situation that many people are facing right now. Shame on you for being so blinded by the blessing of good fortune.
Remember this…. “But for the grace of GOD go I…”
Unfortunately,many people in this country will say that both you and Katherine DO deserve to suffer. You know, when I asked a guy that I know who happens to be very rich, why some many people fight any changes that should be made to the health care system, when so many Americans simply don’t make enough to take proper care of their health- he said “They just don’t work hard enough. They need to work harder and not to expect me to pay for them”. This is not just about politics. People lost their ability to care for those in need. So many politicians preach about the US being Christian- really? That’s not how faithful Christians should ever be.
I am lucky to have dental insurance, but I feel sorry for those who can’t afford it. It’s sad..
i completely agree here it is i hace been faithfully going to the dentist forever until o got pregnant. I had my baby december 18 but now that i am 21 my iinsurance won’t pay for it. I have had good dental care before the pregnancy, the dentist wouldnt see me while i was pregnant..note you are pregnant for 9-10 months….i had thee baby..cant go to thte dentist..and now have an abscess..in ecruciating pain and cant be treated…isnt that just about a b@#$%
Hey crap happens. You think that because you don’t make a lot of money you are entitled to free things? Come on. That’s what has gone so wrong with our country. Sense of entitlement. Boo hoo, poor little me. There is free insurance for people that don’t make enough money. And trust me at $7 hour you qualify. You are upset because the dentist in your town bought a new boat? Oh afterall how dare he. Where is my boat? What a bunch of crap. Come on. I can’t stand that attitude. Crap happens to people all the time, not just you. You go through different seasons and times in your life. Go down to the state offices and apply for state healthcare, that is why it is there. Oh and by the way guess who pays that for you? Ya, the dentist.
People are funny, they complain about not having insurance, but they have cable, cell phones, video games, etc. Decide what your priorities are.
Your attitude is so….primitive. Humans survived long enough to become the dominant species on earth. It wasn’t because of our claws, strength or teeth. It was our intellect and social structure (where we cared for those in our society). There are ancient fossils showing broken bones in human ancestors that have healed. If ANY other animal breaks a bone in the wild, they are dead. It is much like the republican saying “sink or swim”; well can’t very well swim with a broken leg can we? Don’t try and say the state will offer dental care. Dental care is considered a privilege in the eyes of the government. (Again, what a primitive attitude). Everyone should have the right to be healthy. To have access to PROPER medical care. Do you know what the problem is? This country is ran and operated on GREED. (Yet another, primitive attitude). Doctors and dentists are way over payed. If Hippocrates could only see the dominating power’s glorious extension of what he began. Do no harm? Complete and utter negligence seems pretty harmful to me. I’m not saying they shouldn’t be paid well, but instead of 500 thousand dollars maybe they could settle with 200 thousand. They should also help the poor when need be. Oh my god, does that mean the richer people may have to open their pockets a little? How dare the people scavenging for food amongst the back alleys of Detroit, they don’t DESERVE medical care let alone dental. Don’t tell me it’s the homeless fault either. Most of them have mental disorders THAT COULD HAVE BEEN EASILY TREATED. But this isn’t about the forgotten stains in the fabric of America. This is about the people who work hard every day, been dealt a bad hand, and still try to make the best of it with nothing but survival in mind. The working poor (aka, America’s slave labour force); many of whom are employed by some of the biggest, wealthiest corporations in the world. Look at wal-mart for example. The workers of walmart donated hundreds of thousands of dollars of their own money to some cause (i can’t remember which one). The family of Sam Walton donated five thousand COMBINED. Just another example of that all American greed. And sympathizers like you are what is perpetuating such a dribbling concept. See we need to move past all this greed, power and consumption. It is entirely unsustainable. One day, it will all just collapse under its own weight. We have to take care of one another. We are human, sentient. We’re supposed to be enlightened creatures capable of high level thought, art and literature. Yet we drown ourselves in our most basic animal instincts “ME FIRST”. Our entire economy is based on that principle. Those two little words cause all the problems in our society and even the world for that matter. Imagine if everyone had a right to food, clothes, shelter and full medical care, education. If everyone had a right to live. But I am just dreaming right? Then again, so was Martin Luther King, Jr.
I really hope one day you take those blinders off and take a look around you at the damage you have done. Get the super glue and get to work.
Ahh, Robert…. when I read your hilariously simple-minded thoughts, I am reminded of a great quote by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens). “It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. …” It seems so fitting for you. Please try it.
an abscess can kill you
Naw it aint the dentist fault but u have no right in saying that to a middle class
class person, just because u have money dont mean u have to rub it in
someone esles face…and i have a abscess tooth my self and i dont have insurance and a d*** dentist wouldnt c me cause of that, so yet its not their fault they should still be nice to broken people
Denise, the problem with this world is people like you. Not everyone can afford to just go out and pay for everything. You’ll be in for a big shock when karma comes around and bites you in the ass for the horrible way you treat people. EVERYONE WAS CREATED EQUAL YOU DUMB BITCH!
i dont think the problem is with the dentists or people not being able to afford it, not even denise is the problem, the problem is badly run governments, did you know that no matter who you are you can go to the dentist in new zealand for free (as long as you live there) doctor too. canada has a free health system too (not sure if it includes dentists). so the problem i see is that governments should provide free health care to everyone, maybe spend less time trying to take over the world and more time actually helping the people that live there. cos if they cant provide for the people that live in their country now, they sure arent going to be able to when they have more people to worry about.
Hello the Dr and Dentist are NOT FREE in New Zealand.. no such thing. very expensive
They are free in Australia on medicare, NZ is very right wing, it’s how they keep the status quo against the Maoris.
Free for extractions/check ups on medicare. . . If you can wait 2-3years for an extraction/check-up. . . also have to earn near no income.
where did u get the idea that New Zealand has free dnetal or doctor visits? The dentist in the town I live in wanted to charge $187- for a ’simple’ extraction, no free dental for us at all, and as for doctors, they charge anything from $20- to $69- per pe15 minutes appointment
hi there my name is loops i live in New Zealand i have just finished night shift and come on google to try to find a natural cure for an abscess as i am in pain i have lived in NZ for nearly 30 years and I have not ever found a dentist yet that is free, the only option i have available that is affordable to me is to have the tooth pulled and it is my front tooth so i do not with to do that at this time, i am hoping to get rid of the abscess for the time being whilst i save over 1 grand to get my tooth fixed, free dentist not sure who told you that but man that would be truly wonderful and a dream come true, they charge like a wounded bull, I may get lucky and find one that will let me pay it off, but it will be at a rate that is to high for me to afford being on minimum wage, not likely to happen any time soon
hi im from the Uk and here we have something called the NHS this is a free service for doctors dentists and prescriptions i believe every goverment shud ave a scheme like this this i completely understand where everyone is comin from those who cant afford it i ave a low income and so therefore am entitled to NHS this is what is wrong with the way things are in america its all bout the money and the goverment than it is bout the ppl who pay taxes to support thier goverment and then get absolutely f**k all in return i think it is absoluetly shocking !!!!!!
Canada has Universal medical not free medical. A family of 2 pays a min of $125 a month for medical in BC. Perscriptions are not covered and dental is not covered.. also the so called free medical means you often wait 18+ months just to get in to see a specialist.
Learn your facts beflore you start spouting sillyness
I live in the UK, we have access to medical assistance anytime we need it. I dont understand the whole needing insurance if you are unwell? Surely if you are sick or in need of medical assistance it should be provided for you…..I mean we pay our taxes so its not free as such but I do not need to pay any extra?
Cant America do the same thing?
There are two types of dentist here, the greedy (who charge through the roof for dental care) and the ones for the needy (NHS- National Health Service) which is cheaper for people who dont have much money say £30 ($50ish) for a tooth to be removed opposed to £50 – £100. You pay on the day of treatment but they generally will allow you to pay it bit by bit if you cannot afford it at once.
Although trying to get an NHS dentist nowadays is quite hard as more and more dentists are going private….. greed through and through but to be fair if I was offered more money to do the same job I would take it too….who wouldnt?
I wish you all the best and hope you guys get the care and support that ALL human beings are entitled to no matter what your individual circumstances are!
If all else fails……. move to the UK ha ha you can all live with me ;-D.
xXx
Calling her a dumb bitch is not called for though
How rude are you .. everyone is entitled to an opinion!
Denise, you are abviously one of those dentist that everyone on here are talking about. Charge WAY to much for work.
I dont understand how one dentist can charge you over $1700 for the same root canal and crown, then another in the same city can charge $900… hmmmm
I live in central Az and if you go to mexico about a hour and a half away, they will do it for a fraction of the price. They are also american dentists. The reason is, they dont have to pay malpractice insurance. All because people get sue happy, and try to sue for $100 grand and more because a dentist makes a small mistake, and they feel like they deserve it for pain and suffering. I have been through alot of different pains, I mean a shit ton, and nothing even scratches the suface of a bad tooth infection. YOu are a selfish twit Denise and I hope you get a terrible tooth infection and cant afford to go to the dentist. But like I said before you are probably one of those rip off dentist that we are all talking about..
I FEEL SAFE IN ASSUMING THAT U WORK IN A DENTISTS OFFICE….FUCK OFF N GET A LIFE….ITS OUR MONEY MAKIN UR PAYCHECK U CUNT
DENISE IS DEFINETLY A BITCH, A KNOW IT ALL, AND A FILTHY MOUTHED LOSER
Even if your state has some form of low cost dental insurance (New Mexico does) the deductibles and caps can make it just above useless if you need major work done. I have a college degree (masters in fact) but the job market is such a shambles that I consider myself lucky to have the full time minimum wage job I do and much of that income goes to pay bills with nothing left over.
First off no one said its the dentist’s fault for me not having insurance..I CAN’T GET IT! I HAVE TRIED FOR years now…IF i could get it i would have it..Second I am not expecting free treatment by any means i just am looking for a solution..I don’t have a couple thousand to spend on my teeth right now..but i have a serious infection on the whole left side of my face. I have tried salt water, whiskey, aspirin, cold packs, ambesol. You are cruel and really just a horrible person to not think that as a fellow peer that i deserve care. ITS EVERY HUMANS GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO RECEIVE MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you are soo rude you will be sorry one day for that comment..
Okay so denise, You think that yes people should be respondsible for themselves and take care of their teeth and in a perfect world everyone would be financially independent and able to pay a doctor enough to support them with there two house and six cars but unfortionately we all dont have that kind of life style. you see since apparently you are a conservative who thinks that your way of life is the only way and you selfish apparently, maby if you had to live paycheck to paycheck and support yourself on nothing and came from nothing you would have a better understanding of why all of these people would get so deeply offended by you comment. I agree that you are entitled to your own opinion. But dont shit on those less than you. Because of the way that our economy is set up we cant have privlages of a healthcare system where people can live healthy happy lives we are all on this planet and should help each other or we will be alone and left with less. have a heart doctors like dentists are over paid and you know it.
You are so ignorant! Not everyone is born with silver spoons in our mouths.
Denise, you are the one who should be ashamed. Id like to see what you would do with no insurance, and in excruciating pain. Some people, like me, have actually been through college and work 40 hour weeks and still have crap insurance that does not afford for a sudden dental emergency… some of us are paying 40k in school loans on top of everything else… some of us arent privileged, silver spoon fed conservatives who come from money or who ‘made their own keep’… this world isnt an ALL FOR HIM/HERSELF world… go to europe and ask ANYONE working there in ANY kind of job if they walk into a dentist and get turned away for any reason… it simply doesnt happen… they are taken care of and WELL…. its people like you in this nation who should be shamed… people like you who should have their insurance taken away and should be forced to scrounge for money to relieve excruciating pain… they say the only way people like you learn from anything is to experience it… I bet you also bitch about servers who handle your food? Perhaps you should try serving while you are at it… and if not… while I’m on my well-educated yet poverty line funded rant…you should at least read the fine print… these people HANDLE YOUR FOOD… remember that next time you bitch…karma… all karma… maybe one day it will be someone like you whose life is turned upside down, and you will have to finally fork over the dough to get fixed… but until then, enjoy your premium insurance and that new mercades you have in your mouth… everything in life decays eventually… even 10,000 dollar veneers.
Cheers.
Well, people don’t necessarily want the procedure to be for free, but good God, $1600?? What kind of person has that kind of money on hand to just spend on their self.
Oh yeah, in the article it said that you wouldn’t be in this situation if you took better care of your mouth…..wrong! Some people are just prone to these types of things. And, with me, I had an abscess a while back because my dentist didn’t take out all of my cavity from the prior visit. So, sometimes you just can’t help it.
Obviously YOU have never had a seriously bad toothache and no money. Dentists need to be paid just like the rest of us for the work they do. But it is universally understood that dental care is a major rip off. Dont tell me that a dentist is really going to go in the hole financially if they work out a plan with you, or even pull a tooth for say, 50 bucks instead of 250. They have a whole 15 minutes in there yanking that thing out, and what, maybe a couple bucks worth of novacaine. Get real, or get a toothache, and see if you change your opinion.
you’re ridiculous. he just wanted pain relief and they’re seeing green. they might as well quit dental and sell bmw’s.
Maybe if some day you are in the same situation, you want think like that toward that person,the only thing that’s constant is change,you might find yourself in a similar situation ,and then i want to see if you like people judging you the way you judged that person,think about it.
that is bs. there are a lot of people that do not have insurance. it is people like you that stereotype everyone else and vote against certain issues like health care and dental care when it needs to be exposed and helped!
You are so right! I had insurance, and paid my dentist 1500.00, I refered a friend to him, and he made 1600.00, on my friend!
I went in for my crown impression, and the assistant had to re-take the impression twice. The force she put on my molar was tremendrous, and as soon as I went home, the tooth strated to abcess. I went back to my dentist two days later and it had formed an abscess. He would not even lance it! The SOB! I was in dentistry 11 years, and when I got home, I had to lance it myself! Hurt like hell, but boy did I get some relief! After I lanced it, I washed out with peroxide.
The thing is, I was laid off from my job, and my crown is paid for $700.00!, and the office keeps calling for me to have my crown put on. Hell no, I said. I need a root canal. and it is your fault. They will not even discuss the situation with me. So until I get a root canal, my $700.00 crown is sitting at my dentist office! I am broke, and do not have 800.00 for a root canal! Don’t know what to do…sad, and angry at the same time…
I’ve only found three things that help me, but they do not really reduce the abscess they just help with the pain. There is a product (if you can find it) that the Red Cross puts out that is simply called “Toothache Medication” it is really expensive, I think it cost me about $12, but it is strong. Be very careful not to swallow any or you won’t be using your throat muscles for a while which includes swallowing. About 4 Ibuprofen (don’t do this often or your body will get use to it and it won’t work anymore), and a ice pack on your cheek. Do not use warm compresses, I found out from a dental remedy site that the warmth might feel good but it is actually making the abscess worse. Also people say to put crushed aspirin on the tooth but again I read that this actually makes things worse and really doesn’t help with the pain, I don’t know if any of that is good or bad advice though, just trying to tell you what seems to help me a little. I hope it helps you.
I have tried everything for my abscessed tooth… and honestly, the best thing that helps me is mouthwash. Rinse your mouth good for at least 30 seconds… and its gone! I mean.. its more of a instant reliever than anything else. But hey… thats what i am looking for until i can afford to go to the dentist.
For the past few days I have been suffering from dual problems, an infected wisdom tooth on my upper right, as well as an abscess on the lower left. I have always been blessed with horrible teeth so pain has always been part of the game. I recently took out three dental insurance policies (it’s not nearly as expensive as you think) and am sitting out the waiting periods. I went to my complimentary cleaning and diagnostic at the dentist and she wants me to have oral surgery to remove all four wisdom teeth, plus two more that are unable to be saved. But I can’t afford the $2000 to get that done until my insurance starts paying up in a year (approximately next February). However this was something I’d never experienced before to the point that I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat, couldn’t do anything but watch tv and whimper and occasionally cry, yes a grown man crying like a little girl.
Finally I got sick of it and started pouring over the internet to find some relief and this is what worked for me. First I swished some hot really salty water around my mouth paying attention to both the bad areas. This immediately turned the volume way down on the pain so at least I could think straight, but the pain came back after about a half hour, back to the drawing board.
I then read about swishing vegetable oil (they said sesame oil, but all I had was corn oil it worked) then some really strong and hot baking soda water, about two tablespoons per cup or so of water. I swished the oil around in my mouth for about ten minutes (really nauseating but necessary) and spit out this strange butter like substance (Yeah gross). I then immediately started rinsing with the baking soda water a mouthful at a time until it was all gone and low and behold the pain wasn’t gone but it was very tolerable and a few tylenol got rid of that.
I still had a swollen cheek from the abscess but no pain, and after not sleeping for a few days I nearly just called it good and went to sleep, but I decided to try one more thing. I took a DRY teabag and tucked it into my cheek between the cheek and the abscess like it was chewing tobacco then went to bed. The abscess was on the left side so I slept on my right to let it do whatever it was going to do unhindered. This morning I woke up with a very bad tasting teabag in my mouth, and when I pulled it out the swelling was almost all gone. It was easy to see where it went, very disgusting but the teabag was full of bloody puss that is somehow sucked out of my jaw overnight. It’s still a bit swollen but I think another night of this treatment should do the trick.
This worked for me, no guarantee that it will work for you but if you’re experiencing pain like I was you’re probably willing to try about anything.
hi im from england and we get free dental care if we dont work but you have to be on benifits and well im not(dont wanna bum of the goverment)im 20 years old and my teeth are bad i have had the same absess for about a year it keeps swelling up to a tennis ball size im going to try the teabag thing tonight and hope for the best and just wanted to say your advice is good thanks man!
p.s i know americans think the britsh have bad teeth but if you added up the number of brittish with bad teeth to americans there are more americans with bad teeth i know its a bigger country but still dont diss british. we dont diss you
Ben,
Bad teeth are bad teeth. Some are blessed with good ones, some arent. I am one of those that werent blessed. Anyway, who cares where your from, if you got a toothache, it all sucks. I would chew on a camel turd if i thought it would help my toothache right now. And yes, im american, so add me to your list.. lol
Good luck.
Kristi-
What you are doing is absolutely dangerous. The bacteria that you are draining yourself in most likely an unsterile environment can get into your bloodstream and into your heart. Also, to just burst an abscess and let it go for another year is really incredibly stupid. Why? First of all, you’re not ridding yourself of the infection – it keeps coming back. There is something wrong inside your gums and at the base of the root if it does keep coming back. Further, it can and most likely will travel to other nearby teeth and ruin those roots, as well. Don’t you know that when people have heart attacks, the first thing being checked now is the level of bacteria in their mouths? It is being found that mouth bacteria causes heart attacks! You really should NOT be giving anyone the advice you gave them in December. Besides being ignorant, your standards for oral health are abominable and shouldn’t be shared with ANYone.
kristi this blog is here to help ppl straped for cash and yes every 1 here had bad oral hygeine thats why were here his advice is good i dont care if i have a heartattck at least i wont have this pain any more
I need a root canal and and I have a hole in my tooth. Food was always getting impacted so I would floss or use a tooth pick. I accidentally stabbed my gum with the tooth pick and my tooth become infected. It was a seldom throbbing and 3 days later I could not handle the pain anymore. I could sit still, I cried, I wondered what am I going to do? My appointment to the dentist is 2 weeks away and I cannot be seen any sooner… I took ibuprofin and nothing seemed to help. I then started swishing with peroxide and making sure it was really swished good in the infected tooth area and it actually got better. At first it was not helpful but I had to do it every 2 hours. After swishing 30 seconds I would spit it out. Swish with water. Then with Listerine. This was just yesterday when the pain was tremendously unbearable. Today it doesn’t hurt at all. I am sick passing the infection out of my body but I feel so much better that my tooth is not throbbing out my head.
I would go to an ER because you can also be seen as a Charity Case. Please do not wait around for the tooth to get worse.
Just go and explain to the hospital, but get some help ASAP!
brush after anything u eat. then put medium firm pressure on the area surrounding the tooth on both sides of the gum. find the area of maximum tenderness. then press it firmly ( sort of firm tapping) it helps. sometimes it can drain pus n then relieves pain. ultimately u have to see a doc.
My son’s face is swollen from an abscess tooth, what really sucks is that when you work and can’t afford any health insurance. For middle class people like us who work hard its terrible that we can’t even afford health or dental insurance,but we just have to deal with the pain. If you have any suggestions for the swelling and pain I’m waiting to hear from you.
I have plenty of tooth pain and have found a few different remedies.
For pain there is always Orajel – but i have found that CLOVE POWDER IS BEST FOR PAIN- you can buy it powdered- but i prefer the whole cloves, and grinding them myself- after grinding i usually cut up lil coffee filter squares and make little clove powder pouches, they easily sit inside your cheek for hours, i can even eat and drink while i use them. Your son might feel as if it makes it worse the first time…. but that’s how you know it’s working- as long as he leaves it in for at least 15 min, he can take it out…. after that it shouldn’t really hurt. I leave mine in at nite and spit them out in the morning.
It WORKS I Promise! I also use peroxide for infections, baking soda, and rinsing with salt water. I hear that pressing a green tea bag against it will also help. You could also try super glue (gel)- be sure the area is dried before applying, be sure to cover the whole area. This wont hurt you…. in fact- surgeons often use a sterilized version of super glue on their patients! (yes, the secret is out)
Try the cloves for sure, i recommend it to anyone- you can always use clove oil also. goodluck… mouth pain is the worse!
PS. JUST BE SURE NONE! OF THE ABOVE RECOMMENDED IS SWALLOWED!!!
I need a root canal and and I have a hole in my tooth. Food was always getting impacted so I would floss or use a tooth pick. I accidentally stabbed my gum with the tooth pick and my tooth become infected. It was a seldom throbbing and 3 days later I could not handle the pain anymore. I couldnt sit still, I cried, I wondered what am I going to do? My appointment to the dentist is 2 weeks away and I cannot be seen any sooner… I took ibuprofin and nothing seemed to help. I then started swishing with peroxide and making sure it was really swished good in the infected tooth area and it actually got better. At first it was not helpful but I had to do it every 2 hours. After swishing 30 seconds I would spit it out. Swish with water. Then with Listerine. This was just yesterday when the pain was tremendously unbearable. Today it doesn’t hurt at all. I am sick passing the infection out of my body but I feel so much better that my tooth is not throbbing out my head.
Zina, I have a solution; perhaps if you quit posting libelous and anonymous messages on mercedsun-star.com and start looking for a better job, you’d have the health and dental benefits you desire. Even more so, had you been able to handle the transition to the new agency and been able to keep your job, you’d still have the health benefits you had before. Maybe you have better benefits now. Good riddance to you.
You are awful. Regardless of what occurred to leave Zina with no insurance, she is asking for help because her child is suffering.
She did not mention her former job, nor did she speak ill of them (on THIS site) or blame them for her current state.
How did you find her post here? Stalking is a crime, Jane dear….bettter hope Zina doesn’t consult a public defender as you are OBVIOUSLY trolling the internet looking for her.
If she had to work with people like you, no wonder she wasn’t able to “transition”. It should be she who is bidding good riddance….to ugly tempered, narrow minded people like yourself!
“OMG” Jane what is your F*****g problem, if you have nothing nice to say then leave idiot.
what does any of this have to do with an absess tooth
YEA REALLY……I WAS JUST TRYING TO FIND SUM REMEDIES FOR A TOOTHACHE AND IM READING ALL THIS,SHIT….ACTUALLY I 4GOT IT WAS EVEN HURTING…LMAO……THX GUYS FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT….WOW IVE CAME UP WITH MY OWN REMEDY……LOL
Since we’re so candidly handing out advice Jane, perhaps I could be of some assistance you: Seek professional counseling and a dating service, because you so blatantly come across as a bitter, miserable old bitch.
Zina: I hope you were able to get the situation handled in a better manner. Some people need to be re-educated and re-socialized on what is appropriate behavior, and what is not.
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Wow Jane, Stalker, bech, hmm yes You’re bech and a jealous bech, maybe if you weren’t caught sleeping with the boss you wouldn’t be so jealous of Zina, yes the W*H9re get’s caught with her boss, then get’s mad at a former employee, typical of an office monkey lol
lmao!!! is this toothache home remedies or jerry springer.com???
funny lol
Jane Coward,
You are an idiot. Crawl back under your rock, you lowlife. This person is reaching out for help. You are obviously too young to know about REAL tooth pain.
Your type gives the Human Race a bad name. I know you and you are not only crazy,,, you put the UG in ugly. If you would lose some weight, you could do things besides sit 24/7 and post on all these Forums. You need to get off that Xtra large rear end and try some exercise. We both know some of the same people in real life. I am going to tell everybody what you do for fun,, lowlife.
BTW Jane, Why would you tell someone to get a job when you collect SSD. you never would have gotten it without that shydter lawyer. If you can post on all these Forums, you can work and we shouldn’t be paying your way thriugh life.
Besisdes, Medicare don’t give you Dental Coverage, so what are you talking about? You dirty lowlife scammer cheating us out of our hard earned money so you can have a computer and sit and eat treats ALL day. With all that fat your going to have a heart attack. Then you’ll have to use one of your other names to ge advise. I’m giving you some now,,, LOSE SOME WEIGHT AND QUIT CHEATING THE SYSTEM. You’ll feel better about yourself after you drop about 160 pounds and start paying your own way.
I really feel petty on u Americans’ what a screwed health care system.. he he This is amazing that the so called number one developed country in the world does not even think about their citizens.. lol.. this is a fake pride and when i visited US then I came to know how fake this country is. I had a bad toothace and no doubt since I was on a visitor visa the dentist charged a huge amount ..
looks outside US guys.. if UK can manager with fantastic NHS system. Sweden can manage without blood sucking insurance co. and vampire doctors here.. why not US.. or may be it’s too late u guys are going to suffer this long..
Welcome to the land of opportunities lol.
Cheers!
My comment was written in 2010, Jane Howard’s comment was in 2007. Jane, someone needs to shit in your mouth, good day!
It really horrifies me to read some of the responses to this post. I woke up in pain with what I suspect is an abscess, I won’t know for another 7 or so hours until the dental office opens. Anyhow, I found my way to this page looking for a temporary pain relief method (warm salt water and OTC painkillers seem to be holding it off for now..)
I’m lucky enough to live in the UK where we have a fair socialised health care system. I’m also fortunate enough to be able to afford private medical and dental. As I travel to the US regularly (monthly) I spend a fair amount of time in hotel rooms, and particularly towards the tail end of last year I recall being hauled up in an airport hotel in Portland, OR watching C-SPAN waiting for my flight that evening. I distinctly remember seeing some of the arguments against health care reform being demonstrated, and I remember watching Fox News and seeing people being interviewed who were opposed to universal health care access. I remember thinking to myself: gee, imagine being that uneducated and mis-informed that I could believe that the optimum system for health care is where people go without health care based purely on their ability (or lack there of) to pay. I believed that Fox News had just scraped together the bottom of the barrel in some backwater towns hidden miles into some very red states, where the interviewees had little to no understanding of the issue being debated. Sadly, I was wrong. It seems that highly educated people really believe that someone should suffer serious illness just because their job doesn’t afford the appropriate level of cover. I employ a number of people, mostly in “minimum wage” roles, and as such my company pays Employer’s National Insurance contributions, with staff contributing an amount from their wages equivalent to a little more than I have paid. This entitles them to free medical and dental under the National Health Service. I say free because there are a few point of use ‘admin’ charges that are made. Mainly for dental. I believe the fees work out to be around $30, $60 and $300 approx depending on the level of service provided by the dentist, and $10 for any prescription. I’ve never really formalised my thoughts on health care reform in the US, even though last year it seemed that every meeting I attended in North America would result in me regaling tales of state funded health care, but right now I’m bleary eyed, but awake, and while I have 100 better things to do, I am going to hash out my thoughts on health care, and try to in some way get an understanding of how someone can genuinely believe that they have more of a right to life than someone who doesn’t have as good a job as them.
Let’s make some assumptions:
Every society needs to be broken down into various socio-economic groups. We can’t have 100% from A, that is, we can’t have a nation of Doctors and Dentists, Lawyers and Accountants. It wouldn’t work, the society would fail. As long as we’re all agreed, we can safely move on in our discussion assuming that we need a large number of citizens from the ‘D’ demographic, that is, those people who pump your gas, bag your groceries etc. Now, I’ve noticed that the main argument of the pro private healthcare lobby is that if these people worked harder, they could afford medical/dental (forgive me, I may not fully understand this argument?) – so, let’s assume that everyone does work harder, and go to college and moves to the ‘A’ demo. Then where are we? We have an unworkable society. Who’s lugging boxes? Who’s driving trucks? Who’s teaching in public school? No one. Oh, this hasn’t worked out has it. OK, so back to the drawing board… OK, ok, I know, we’ll have some people working in lower jobs with lower education. But they’ll have to work more hours to get benefits. That’s another argument I heard a lot from the … how would you guys best describe yourselves… Republicans? I’m gonna go with assholes. Right, so these guys are working 80 hours a week, just to bring home enough money to support their families and pay for medical care. I work 80 hours a week. I sure as hell couldn’t do it lugging boxes in Wal-mart, not just to get by. Now, what happens if they lose their job. They lose their medical. What now?
OK, now lets focus on one of the most unjust bits of this ludicrous health care system that people like you are trying to defend. What about the kids? I just wrote out about 3 different scenarios, but I deleted them. There’s no point. There are uninsured kids in America. We all know it, even the Republican party admit it. I believe there are 9 million uninsured kids in America, and 6 million of them are eligible for SCHIP. That’s 3 million uninsured kids… most developed nation on earth… really? So because their *parents* didn’t work hard and go to college, they deserve to suffer. Right. OK, I think I’m beginning to understand. Maybe the kids should work harder. It’s a great idea, maybe some of the big sneaker manufacturers (not mentioning any names, right?) could on-shore some of their sweatshops, and give the kids health and dental in exchange? It’d be kind of like an after school club. Might be a little hard to swallow, eh?
Right next point. I take it you studied Econ 101? Remember the bit about full employment being impossible -all that nasty stuff about bottle neck inflation? What about the unemployed ones – the ones who we can’t employ? The ones who are unemployed to prevent bottle neck inflation?
Gah, I’m getting angry. Your views are just so wrong to me in every single way, I don’t even know which angle to attack from.
Another thing… why is ‘liberal’ a swearword in most states? And why is it that US Citizens seem (I know there are huge exceptions, but just to make a generalisation, I apologise to those I offend) to want to be part of some political gang? “I’m a liberal” – “I’m a conservative” – WHAT? Are you meaning to tell me that you agree with every single policy of your chosen party? You have absolutely ZERO ideas of your own? You just blindly follow your party line? Get a grip and think for yourself. If you actually sat down and thought about – and here it comes, i’m not going to just go in with some small time health care reform – I think if you sat down and thought about it, without listening to politicians or those creatures (I’m sure they’re bordering on mental retardation) that make up the Fox News lineup, you would actually realise that socialised health care is a wonderful wonderful thing.
Let’s compare and contrast:
USA: $200,000 to go to MedSchool, so you have to reclaim that sum by charging huge fees in professional life, or at least that’s the goal, cept you can only do that in Private Practice, so some make lots, others don’t. Insurance companies take fat profits because insurance can’t be sold over state lines so competition is limited, and I mean really limited. Employers almost go broke paying these high fees, the drug companies make loads… and patient care is marginally higher than the UK.
UK: £20,000 to go to Med School, the rest of the check is paid by the Gov’t, after all, they’re the ones who are going to be employing all the doctors, so why not let them off lightly with tuition fees, and then keep their wages lower in the long run. Make sense? Sure does. I know 3 American doctors, all of them entered medicine for the money. Can’t say the same about British doctors. They’re there to help people. Nothing more and nothing less. It attracts the right folk for the job. The drug companies don’t make very much, why? Well let’s get back to Econ 101, monopsony is our health care system. The NHS buys at the price it wants to pay, you don’t sell at that price, it doesn’t get sold. So the drug companies sell at that price, or normally a little higher, and the NHS budge.
Yeah the NHS has its problems. It’s badly run, but it wasn’t always that way. And it won’t be that way forever either.
Someone above touched on one of the little ‘treats’ from America that always make me chuckle as I drift off in my mile-high bed above the Atlantic heading back to the civilisation (calm down, i’m only joking – I love you guys, truly!) is that everything in politics in the states is based on religion and these ‘christian values’ of yours.
Surely Christians have compassion for their fellow man? Nah… no chance, I remember reading a story one time about the new priest moving into his congregation on his first Sunday, he dressed as a homeless man asleep in the church doorway, and was walked over and ignored by his congregation despite his pleas for water. My thoughts on organised religion are best left for another day, but one thing Jane, is if you have the mental abilities required for self-reflection, take a long hard look at yourself and your beliefs, and think how would you feel if you lost your job, and due to a ‘pre-existing condition’ which was uninsured you were unable to work again. Would you feel the same way?
It did interest me how people I’ve discussed this topic with in the US fell into two types (my scope for debating partners wasn’t wider, sadly due to the circles I mix with for work):
* The Highly Educated
* The Highly Intelligent & Highly Educated
Those who I had always held in high regard for their high intelligence were almost invariably convinced throughout last year that Obama’s reforms were not enough, and the USA should adopt the NHS style of healthcare. However those who I had always considered to be shaven monkeys with a degree from an Ivy League school stapled to their chest seemed to stand by Jane’s type of views… some kind of social Darwinism, ironic considering Jane is almost a parody of the type of character who truly believes that Darwin’s work is against God and ridiculous.
Jane, learn to think for yourself, I’m sure that you’ll come out of this silly little phase of thinking that people can just find a better job. Heck, if your boss ever twigs what a buffoon you are, you’ll be without Medical too. And one last thing Jane, stop watching Fox, their ideas are half baked and when someone like yourself tries to put them across, you just sound moronic.
This is an extremely well written article. Bravo!
luv it !!! im from the UK too and i absoluetly agree with everything shocked has jus said the ones sayin its their own fault cos they are on lowcome income or do not work get off ur high horses cos most of u small minded rich ppl believe without money u are on the lower end of the scale well i hope that ur money keeps u warm and comfortable because none of ur barbie doll friends will (by that i mean the ones who ave more plastic than flesh) be there if u suddenly came into the lower end of the scale !!!!!!!!!!!
Ouch
how do u get the dental help u need when it’s so expencive and can’t afford insurence or out of pocket? i’m desporate 2 get all my teeth pulled and get dentures. teeth over crouded, busted and abscessed due to wisdom teeth. miserable! help?
What I did initially was go to 1800dentist.com and find somewhere close. You can let them know you don’t have insurance. Sadly the office closed today due to bad weather so I had to go to immediadent.
affordable dentures that is the name look for them they have offices all over they will pull your teeth all in one visit and you leave and come back in the afternoon and they put in your dentures. all for about $300-400 dollars.
Are you a dentist making these comments?????
WOW! It really is true about the medical/dental profession promoting co-dependence with their patients.
Dear dentist- you forgot that every abscess is not caused simply by poor hygiene-ever heard of bone loss around a weak tooth???
Second, a good home remedy (which obviosly you do not wish to share) is to cleanse the infected area with baking soda and salt.
This will provide instant relief for a temporary solution until you can begin antibiotics. The professionals don’t want you to know this for some reason??? They would rather prescribe pain killers which half the time do not work but pads their pocket with gold. sir, it is obvious why you got into dentistry. (1) money
(2) people second Good luck with that!
TDOUCH,
All peroxide does is kill everything, good and bad bacteria as well as cells in tissues. Baking Soda may be soothing but won’t heal anything. I have found that it is true about using a 50/50 mix of 3% peroxide to kill bacteria. You then need to reintroduce bacteria. If you don’t, peroxide may give you thrush, or Black Tongue if you use it too often. It can also burn your mouth if you use it straight. If a person with no Gum Disease uses the 50/50 mix once a week, you probably will never develop gum disease. It is useless for healing a puss filled, infected socket causing pain and bone loss. This is caused by bad Oral hygiene or a cavity left unattended.
You also have that backwards. It’s Gum Disease that causes loose teeth, not the other way around. You should educate yourself on a topic before you express useless opinions.
Most Dentists tell you to rinse with warm salt water. It has healing properties and sooths.
Dentist:
Maybe you should also educate yourself before you start claiming that an abscess is “is caused by bad Oral hygiene or a cavity left unattended”. I am currently suffering from an abscess due to having a wisdom tooth removed. The tooth needed to come out as it was partially impacted and there was just no room for it to grow up properly. I asked that it be removed as I knew that if it was left, it would start causing pain, as opposed to the discomfort it had already been causing. My dentist refused, for a year, to remove the tooth. When he finally agreed, there was already an abscess (I could taste it after the tooth came out). He sent me home with no care instructions and no antibiotics and told me to take ibuprofen.
I know have a cheek that looks like a grapefruit and the abscess has spread into my jaw. I’m hooked up to an IV trying to fight the infection. The abscess is draining, but keeps filling again and after 5 days on an IV, it just isn’t going away. The next step is to surgically remove it, which does not sound to pleasant to me.
I can guarantee you that I do not have poor oral hygiene and I have not have a cavity in years (since I was a child!). I actually came here hoping to find something that could help me get rid of the abscess (along with the antibiotics), instead I find this site, which tries to shame someone with a real problem.
My mother also has a problem with abscesses, and again she does not have poor hygiene. Her’s actually stems from having another medical condition that weakens her teeth and causes infection/ cavities.
In fact, there are a number of medical conditions, and the subsequent treatments, that can cause problems with your teeth and can lead to abscesses, other then poor oral hygiene.
If you truly are a dentist, as your name would indicate, then I would hope that you try to treat your patients with understanding and patience instead of passing judgment on them, after all, if we all had perfect hygiene and that was the only cause of dental problems, you would be out of a job!
Ouch is right Janey. get a life preferably with christ at the center
it is regretable that you bring our Lord into a jab like that, there is nothing worse than being mean in the name of Christ.
Amanda…please READ. There was no jab by TD Ouch, the jab was by Jane to a woman trying to get help for her child. TD is right….Jane neds to get a life and if Christ were at the center, maybe she wouldn’t be so ugly to others.
Ok, from all this it looks like i need to go out and sh@g some whres, stalk some people. Be a miserable, sad loner and definately avoid Americans and my Abscess will be gone. Wheres the whres at?
Gay, At your mothers house in Juarez.
This will reduce the swelling and stop the pain. Mix 1 tea spoon of pepper, 1 tea spoon of salt and 1/2 teaspoon of vinigar in a cup of water. Bathe on the tooth for 1/2 – 1 hour.
u people are suppose to be helping people but all u r doing is being mean u need to get a life
Go to the store and get any liquor and an eye dropper and periodically drop alcohol on the tooth. It will numb it. You could try rinsing with warm salt water. Cloves or mint oil will help. Toothpaste directly on the affected area as a topical solution (not brushing) will help. I’m in this boat right now. I think the only real solution is a dentist’s visit and either a filling, root-canal, or extraction. Guess which one is the cheapest.
I haven’t tried this yet, but look for dentists that use water-lase technology. Supposedly it makes fillings painless.
Thank you to all that actually posted something worthwhile on this site, for the other jackasses that paste insults here just do the world a favour and go to hell! This website is meant to assist people with their difficulties and if you cannot help you are not welcome here!
lol sorry Seduction of looserness u go to hell. to bad there isn’t one, maybe there isn’t a you either
I HAVE AN ABSIST TOOTH AND IT HURTS I DON’T HAVE ANY TYPE OF INSHURANCE AND I WENT TO THE HOSPITAL FOR ANTIBODCIS PLEASE HELP ME
I need a root canal and and I have a hole in my tooth. Food was always getting impacted so I would floss or use a tooth pick. I accidentally stabbed my gum with the tooth pick and my tooth become infected. It was a seldom throbbing and 3 days later I could not handle the pain anymore. I could sit still, I cried, I wondered what am I going to do? My appointment to the dentist is 2 weeks away and I cannot be seen any sooner… I took ibuprofin and nothing seemed to help. I then started swishing with peroxide and making sure it was really swished good in the infected tooth area and it actually got better. At first it was not helpful but I had to do it every 2 hours. After swishing 30 seconds I would spit it out. Swish with water. Then with Listerine. This was just yesterday when the pain was tremendously unbearable. Today it doesn’t hurt at all. I am sick passing the infection out of my body but I feel so much better that my tooth is not throbbing out my head.
I’ve had an abscessed tooth since Friday when I woke up. No pain, but the left side of my face looked like I had a fight with a botox needle. It was swollen up into my jaw. I immediately started anitbiotics. (I, fortunately, have the pleasure that my boyfriend’s father is a foot doctor and has Amoxicillin on hand.) It seemed like it was going down and almost gone yesterday, but when I woke up this morning, it was bigger than ever and a new swelling had appeared right above my tooth on the gum. I tried to pop it to drain it, but even though it didn’t hurt normally, it was very tender to the touch and I couldn’t pop it without really hurting myself. So I tried the tea bag method. I took a dry Lipton tea bag and held it in my mouth directly ON the pus filled abscess. It hurt like h-e- double hockey sticks for about 20 minutes. I mean, it REALLY hurt. But then the pain completely went away and even touching my cheek was ok while I had the tea bag in. So I left it there for two hours and then got up and went to the bathroom. Sure enough, at the base of the bubble was a white dot surrounded by a black bigger dot. I took my sterilized needle and just barely touched it. IT POPPED!! All the nasty, horrible smelling pus came oozing out. I gently pushed on the top of the abscess (up in my check) and guided it to the whole. I completely drained it within 30 minutes with lots of spitting. After that, I rinsed and swished my mouth with hydrogen peroxide to sanitize after all that poison was in there. Then rinsed with cool water to get rid of the hydrogen peroxide. Now I know the abscess can fill up again, especially overnight, so I’m keeping a tea bag on my gums for a couple of more hours while I make sure it’s all extracted. With the combo of antibiotics and drainage, I’ll be able to go to the dentist on Wednesday and have the dang thing pulled so it won’t cause me anymore problems.
I hope this helps someone!!
OMG!!! I am 16, and i went to the dentist like a year ago, and they gave me a unnecessary filling. it fell out this summer, and an abscess formed like 2 years ago. i am sooo going to try this. i really hope that it helps. my family is really strapped for cash. and we have no insurance. so i have had to dael with this for so long. it really hurts, and it really sucks. thank you everyone.
This really worked. I put the tea bag on my gum for about an hour and then popped the abcessed. The whole thing drained in about 30 to 45 minutes and I was feeling MUCH better! Thanks
I got a razor blade and cut off my absess.. it hurt like a bitch but afterwords a lot more of my tooth is exposed and it is gone. i rubbed powdered amoxicillin on the wound and swish hydrogen peroxide daily. i don’t know if this helps but its all i could do and it seems better than letting it build up at all.
people when other people are asking questions why do people have to be so mean??people are only looking for help when they are in pain!!i have suffered many of toothaches and a dentist can be very expensive for people who don’t have insurance
okay…nothing really works only temporary most of the time, but viegar works but it burns like hell, my ace is swollen right now.
if u cant afford to see a dentist…..
rob somebody because im in the position to kill somebody right now lol…im in so much pain but only warm n salt water, alot of antibiotics, vitamin c…should knock it.
I have had many abcesses… I have always found that if you catch it soon enough, a hot cup of heavily salted water (to the point that no more salt will dissolve) take a good swig, swirl n scoosh, gargle if you can for about 1min. Spit. Take a decent gob full and swirl it gently in your mouth for as long as pos.. a good half hour if you can.. take ibuprofen and water to rehydrate your now puckered mouth and go to bed. Hey presto.. you wake up and it’s gone. If its bigger than a fat pea then your bingoed. Nothing but anti-b n extraction will cure it. yeah… you can go down the road of root canal.. it’s not worth the extra few years with the tooth.. it only prolongs the pain as it eventually will need harvested.
I’m with who-ever was talking about falsers being the final goal here.. surely evolution will eventually do away with teeth.. Our genetic make-up allowing for our ability to insert suitable chewing equipment into our gaping maws just like it has allowed for our ability to provide warmth with clothes n fire.
Which would make me the missing link.. I have an extra wisdom tooth
One more to lose before I can get the tooth fairy off my back!
I currently work in a dentist office. For further healthier teeth it is important to see your doctor every 6 months.Unless you have periodontal disease you need to see the doc. every 3 months. A few of these home remidies such as salt water, amoxacilian works as well. You can also try to take warm to hot water and swoosh it around in your mouth. This will help numb the spot till you can get an appointment with yor doctor. Go to the doctor evry six months. For the amount of money that you spend fixing your teeth, its worth to go to prevent these painful things from taking place.
Wonderful! Your office offers FREE care? I would gladly go to the dentist every 6 months if they would even allow a payment plan, rather than requiring payment befor treatment….100’s of dollars at a time.
So! Since you have let us all know the OBVIOUS…where is your office? You surely wouldn’t tell a site full of people who can’t afford care to go unless it was free or low cost, right?
Ahhh..yes amen to that comment….ty
OK ALL YOU PEOPLE KEEP SAYING U CANT AFFORD TO GO TO THE DENTIST….BUT YOU CAN AFFORD INTERNET? DONT PAY YOUR BILL FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS AND THERE YOU GO….MONEY TO GO TO DENTIST……..WOW, WHAT A GOOD IDEA…..
Clearly, JACKLYN2879 you don’t know how cheep internet is or how expensive dental work is. You can get v92 (dial up) for under US$ 10 but just a simple SINGLE filling can cost US$ 50. As they say do the math.
$10X5MTHS=$50…………..IF YOU WANNA BE A SMARTA@$ I CAN TOO…..
I DO HAVE AN ABSESSED RIGHT NOW AND HAVE INTERNET(OF COURSE) AND I CANT AFFORD TO GO TO THE DENTIST, THATS WHY IM ON HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE……CLEARLY “KNOWLEDGE” MY COMMENT MUST HAVE GOT UNDER YOUR SKIN A LITTLE….DO THE MATH!!!!!
may i add… we are here for abscessed tooth.
internet = $10 a month
medicine = $50
X-ray = 150
Major oral extraction = PRICELESS!!!
Hi I have an abscess under my bridge in the front of my mouth I got it first about a year ago and went to see the doc he gave me antibiotics and told me i needed a root canal or the tooth removed which means a new bridge that i cant afford even with my insurance i am taking antibiotics again and it has been 3 days and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better I am going to try a tea bag but i cant get anything under the bridge it is to swollen and ideas would greatly help!
To the person who insulted the other one and mentioned her not messing up on her job:
i was shocked to see such a comment posted in this type of board. If you have been hurt by this other person so much that you want to make them PAY by covertly sending “digs” your way, I want you to know that I’ve been in your shoes.
To the person who was “dug” I want you to know that if you messed up, there is a God who forgives, but you also, IF you messed up, need to ask forgiveness and turn the opposite way with opposite behaviors and God will step in and make things well again.
I’m suffering a miserable toothache, yet again. i’m living on ibuprofen and very concerned about what it might be doing to my inner organs. Dentists are not very available around me.
Life is so short but there is always hope till you breathe your last. God wants a relationship with you.
~Beth
I have found that many of the postings here to be helpful. Another solution is to muscle rub on the outside of your jaw(around the bad tooth) , this will increase the circulation and ease some of the pain and swelling.
Garlic also increases the circulation of the blood to spread it from one area to all over allowing your body to heal at a natural pace.
Rinse lots and lots with an bacterial mouth wash to ensure that your keeping any food particles from touching the infected area.
I have this right now. I had half a tooth break that had a previous cavity in it, and it’s been hurting for 3 days. I woke up this morning with this big puffy cheek. Ice doesn’t make the swelling go down fyi. I have used mouthwash, but that doesn’t do a whole lot either. Perhaps killed some of the bacteria?
Even if i kill off the bacteria, the puffiness has to go down, which means it needs to pop. The “sack” if filled with bacteria filled pus, so you can’t let that get back into the tooth. I was using a shot of vodka earlier when the tooth was hurting more, which may have been killing the bacteria on site for the most part. Don’t swallow though… you’ll drink a small shot every half hour…
The worst part about the whole situation is that my dentist has been on vacation for a week now, and is not going to be back until another three days. So even if you have insurance, sometimes this situation is really just unavoidable. I plan on taking off of work Monday and going door to door with every dentist i find in google until one is open and can treat me.
This can only be permanently fixed with a root canal or tooth removal. Removal for me is about $100. Root canal, more like $600. If i didn’t have insurance, I know what I’d do.
Hydrogen Peroxide killed the pain right away on an abscess tooth but one day I had to use it over and over again and realized it started to “eat away” at my taste buds on my tongue. Then I discovered Peppermint oil for use on my abscess, broken tooth, and another tooth where the filling came out, exposing complete nerves. The peppermint worked instantly for pain relief but now I have a huge swollen jaw on one side of my face. Not sure what to do to get the swelling down but I guess I’ll keep at the Peppermint oil for now. Any suggestions?
My appointment to the dentist is 2 weeks away and I cannot be seen any sooner… I took ibuprofin and nothing seemed to help. I then started swishing with peroxide and making sure it was really swished good in the infected tooth area and it actually got better. At first it was not helpful but I had to do it every 2 hours. After swishing 30 seconds I would spit it out. Swish with water. Then with Listerine. This was just yesterday when the pain was tremendously unbearable. Today it doesn’t hurt at all. I am sick passing the infection out of my body but I feel so much better that my tooth is not throbbing out my head. Swish only once every 2 hours!!!
UM- If you don’t have insurance and you NEED to go to the doctor or dentist than GO!!! Okay so you will have a bill for 7 years that will be on your credit report OH WELL- the state of our economy is in the toilet and alot of people are saying it has everything to do with the fact that we don’t have universal healthcare (while others agree it is because of the sub-prime mortgages but anyway) Don’t worry the “POOR” doctor or dentist will of course be helped by the goverment when he has write-offs- its another way big business gets priority over the little people. And FYI many states will go back 3 months and cover you with state insurance if you have big enough doctor bills. BUT you can DIE from an abcess tooth! so if you think your credit is more important than your life than you have been programmed by THE MAN. another easy solution go to Mexico dental work is wayy cheap there
Melissa…in NJ, dentists will not treat you unless you pay in advance….so “bills for 7 yrs” are not an option.
That is the same way iin every state out there, i can’t get medical from state unless i pop out another kid to get mediaciad card, and i am not about to do that for a tooth. i work at night as a cart pusher for a walmatr and can’t get insurance. all the dentist know that you can’t pay so that is why the charge in full first. and oh, i love their credit plan with wells fargo, you have to have great credit for them to work wih you so you still are screwed. i went to opsital to get pain meds and antibiotics and the stupid doctor looked down on me and talked to me like i was a horrible person who doesn’t have the good sense to have good hygiene. i have have a medical problem that very few know about where plague in our bodies build up in a rapid about, i can brush my teeth and ten minutes later have the same amount of plague, why,,, be cause i iwas born taht way, my teeth, no matter what i do, will get bad and have to eventually all come out and i am so sick of being looked doan at for having no insurance. i am a greta mom , and i work hard and dnetist should be required to take payments . Thank god for Remote Area Medical programs. I may have to wait till february to see soeone, but at least it will b free.
hi there. i woke up this morning and my face was twice as big as normal! the swelling was huge! anyway. abscess. huge. pressure was awful. couldnt cope so i stuck an earring in it. the pressure went instantly. pain was gone and now im washing my mouth out with anti bacterial mouth wash. fyi the puss was vile. as was the blood!
hi I just wanted to say that I was told by my dentist that it wasnt good to pop a infection in your mouth that it will reduce the pain which most people with abcesses look forward to that relief but it could also cause further infection…I just had a molar pulled and it was abcessed and my dentist put me on antibiotics but for days the swelling or pain wouldnt go away and I found that rinsing my mouth out with 1/2 water 1/2 peroxide helps a great deal…heat does make it feel better at the moment but makes the swelling worse afterwards so try to avoid hot drinks and most hot foods unless you can keep in on the opposite side. As far as dental insurance or cost its about to become manditory that everyone carries it..Luckily I have a good dental plan and believe me I dont make enough money to barely servive but its worth it in the long run…Most dental offices offer payment plans with credit approval maybe you should look into that because something simple being avoided by a dental visit or cost could lead to worst problems in the long run that could lead to more spent and worse pain when you could have found some help that met your financial situations.
i have a wisdom tooth that hurts like hell the top of the tooth is broken off so it is a gapping black hole with a huge cavity in it my pain has kept me from eating and sleeping this is day 3 no sleep but my way to take the pain away orajel and a cocktail of hydrocodone and valium to sleep but if ya dont have either one go to the er get hooked up then get to the county hospital and register im a single mom and cannot afford a lot when u hurt do something about it
hi there i have a tooth absis its really painful. ive had for a week now and ive been trying some home remidies, the best one yet is suprisingly onions, theyre really good, so are cheesy poofs.
Hello To All you Fellow toothache and absess Suffer’s!!..i would just like to make one quick point before i begin on my Rant And Quick Fix..Posting a Vulgar comment like the one posted above by one “Jane” was TOTALLY rude and not needed.especially on a board like this one..i couldnt believe what she commented on that other woman..i know how that woman feels about not being able to afford it..but anyways.
I have had a absess on my tooth for about 3 years now..is that normal?..i went to my dentist about 2 years before it happened and it was only a little Caveity then so she Filled it with Silver filling and about 2 years after i started to noctice that it was continueing rotting underneath the filling..i am a person who brushes and gurggles 3 times a day and its the only problem i have ever had with my teeth so one day the absess burst and it felt incrediabley goood..but about 2 weeks later the pain came back both on that tooth and all of my bottem teeth..so i made a appointment with my dentist and for some reason she kept calling to “RESCHEDULE” the appointment??…but anyway here is what i used to make the pain go away..these are the things i would advise..
Use ICE AND LOTS OF IT!
Gurgle with core Salt or Regular and make sure it is warm water..cold water makes it hurt much worse
Drinking a shot of rum (shishing it around first) does help alot too.
What an incredibly ignorant and biased original post, Purva.
Like everyone else here, we came to learn about something that is no doubt causing an excess of pain and discomfort… and to be told that it was preventable? An individuals fault? Really? Wow
What about the dentist that suggested that ‘all was well’ after botching a root canal? The care giver that you entrusted with your health to repair something that didnt repair it? I mean, it is not like anyone suggested that complications might arise as a result of a screw up on their part, hmm? I suspect that perhaps my opinion is not that poorly considered, nor unique.
That said…What a pile of bollocks. Whats next, a diatribe on race or perhaps on the merits of anal bleaching?
To the rest here, thank you for your well considered and experienced recommendations.
To Purva (if that is your real name) … I think that they blanch your teeth with the same stuff as they use on your bunghole. Have fun with that. (and smile).
What is upsetting to me is hearing some people say that low cost/no cost dental is available for people and that theres no excuse for not going to the dentist! I beg to differ with you, because I have no job, and do not qualify for ANY dental coverage whatsoever! I was told I needed to be a full time student, in order to qualify for free dental. So basically if you have any kind of job, they consider your income too high for free dental, and if you dont have a job at all, they could care less because to them you still arent desperate enough. Um if I could afford to be a full time student, I think id also have the money to fix my dental problems. But here I sit with progressing periodontal disease, and no money for the expensive deep cleanings and antibiotic!
I have an absessed wisdom tooth. My face is swelling and my jaw and ear hurt. I have tried vanilla extract for it’s alcohol content for my tooth ache. Oregano. Massaging. putting wheate bread so that the yeast could soak the posion out. Oh God I am in agony! I have tried all kinds of remedies. Just nothing seems to work. I can’t take it! I’m bout ready to hit the Emergency room! I need some drugs QUIK!
Just tried the method mentioned above involving the warm salt water. I used table salt. I swished it in my mouth for a good minute or so and I think that alone popped the abscess. I had a lot of swelling under my top lip so I wanted to be sure I could drain everything. I cleaned a sewing needle with alcohol and popped the abscess again. The skin around the lesion was tender enough from the salt water that it pierced the bubble with little pain. I then guided the vile puss and blood out of the hole I made and it seemed to have escaped from around the base of the tooth as well.
I went to the ER yesterday to get Penicillin and Vicodin and would suggest using these drugs to ensure the disease is fought from within your body. The Vicodin (hydrocodone/tylenol) always helps with the pain, and I have found Aleve or Advil (naproxen) helps reduce swelling. Vicodin and Naproxen can be taken together but may upset your stomach.
So far the abscess seems to be filling up again, but when I squeeze it out I get what appears to be healthy blood rather than the puss I had previously. I imagine the penicillin will fight off further infection. My only hope now is that the tooth will be saved since it is a front tooth. Your wisdom teeth may be harder to treat yourself. Good Luck.
Also, Thanks to everyone who has posted their experiences here. I have a lot of issues with the US health/dental situation and I’m glad there is real information out there to help people help themselves. Thank you all.
By the way “Jane” that was an ugly f*ck*ng commet you made there to that woman. If you cannot bring a solution to the table to help and benefit to the “cause”. Then might I suggest, YOU SHUT YOUR DAMN PIE WHOLE!
How about a rotten PIE!
By the way it’s the pain talking!
I do not want to hear about you telling me how i could prevent it. I am in agony. I brush my teeth regularly my last denta appointment was less than a week ago. I want a simple way to stop the pain so i can get to sleep and then call the dentist (IN AGONY) in the morning.
So as to your unhelpful advice…
Bite me.
If you’re not chewing on the side of your mouth, where the aching tooth is, then chances are you need to take 600mg of Ibuprofen. If that doesn’t work, like it didn’t in me after 1 yr of having the pain, then the ER can give you an antiinflamitory (for infection) and codiene pill (for the pain – only $10. cash w/ out insurance). It’s a temporary relief!
How long does it take the antiflamitory to work?
hi i seem to suffer from absess when i use cotton buds in my left ear and then by the next morning my mouth is swollen i have got a bad tooth on the left side which im waiting for the dentist 2 pull out but they wont pull it out while my mouth is swollen ive tryed paracetomol ibuofen they dont seem to work so now ive tryed warm salt water has anybody Any suggestions?
All of you people are saying oooo it hurts, i’m sitting her with one that and it’s pressure is so bad that the bubble is bigger than my tooth. My tooth’s crown is completly gone. I have tried treating mine with antibiotics and they just don’t work! Before i start taking them i have no puss bubble and after i take them i do. I have been living with my tooth like this for about 2 years. It comes and goes; i didn’t have a puss bubble for 6 months and for some reason it’s back again. it’s not as painful as you make it seem, even though i may just be used to tooth aches because i have bad teeth. If you don’t have a good job than you can get welfare insurance.
pop the damn puss bubble when you see it, or else your gum will just keep re-absorbing it in a vicious cycle. If the abcess is in a tooth vault, the antibiotics will do NOTHING until it’s drained.
for those who don’t have insurance, try to find a dentist near you at freemedicalcamp.com I think this is the right site or it is something close to this you might have to google it. Anyway, they tell you of a dentist in your area that charges based on your income usually not more than $25-50 dollars per tooth. I had a troublesome tooth pulled for $25 and that was it. Some are free. Good Luck They are so cheap because the get a federal subsidy and take lower fees.
Melissa – do you know how much it costs to go to dental or medical school? Around 200k, give or take. And these doctors and dentists have to pay overhead on their clinics, staff, utilities, apparatus, and so on, and what a primary care doctor or dentist actually takes home is not as much as you would think it was. So enough with the sarcasm that reeks of income jealousy. You have no idea what you are talking about regarding that.
As far as an abscess goes – clove/peppermint oil is good for temporary anesthesia. Use a cotton swab, not your finger. You can go to a local health department for antibiotics and more heavy-duty pain relief, or try Aleve/Motrin over the counter. Swishing with salt water is also temporarily effective for swollen areas – it draws the water out of the swollen area (remember, water follows salt). Be careful not to swallow too much of it or you’ll induce diarrhea.
FYI, dental insurance is not as expensive as you might think. I know several plans that cost around $100 a year for basic insurance and $150 a year for families. These plans don’t cover all costs but they do save you 50-75% of what it would cost without insurance, and if you get your 2 check-ups and cleanings a year, it’s worth it. Aetna has one such plan, but you can do a simple Google search for “dental plans” to see what works for you.
I would not recommend going to Mexico for a dental treatment, unless perhaps you happen to live right on the border. Mexican dental care is not held to the same rigors as the US, and if something were to go wrong, then what would you do? Sue? Go to the hospital? Not worth the risk, IMO.
Cheap relief for abscess is a glass of warm water with 3-4 tblspoons of salt, swill around for the infected gum/tooth for 5-15 mins every 3-4 hours. This will offer some relief and take down the infection a little bit, but it won’t cure you of it. the abscess in the later stages will show itself by inflaming the gun and having it swollen but the infection will be much deeper usually in the area at the bottom of the nerve, and if left untreated, it’ll eat away and possibly invade your face, jaw bone and even other parts of your body leading to death.
As for pain relief, I would suggest you take ibuprofen as it’s an anti-inflammatory and reduces swelling, of course those with peptic ulcers and problems with their digestive system should avoid such things. Try some Cuiprofen that’s cocodomol combined with ibuprofen, you can buy them over the counter at your local pharmacy
I have often taken 2 paracetomol(500mg) and one Cuiprofen tablet every 4-6 hours 3-4 times a day until visiting a local DDS
Just to comment on Abscesses – anybody can get them, whether you have great dental hygiene or the worst, it doesn’t really matter. Of course poor hygiene usually results in far worser cases, but still don’t be mislead by others telling you that cavities are the result of neglect. The problem today is so many foods are packed with sugars that feed these harmful bacteria, and due to the de and remineralization of the enamel it affects everybody.
My suggestion for preserving your teeth is a regular visit to your DDS, brushing/flossing 3-4 times a day seeing as people eat a lot more snacks. Also a good tip is to chew cheese of a night, before bed.
This makes me want to headbutt a hatchet.
Shit my face is sooo huge i look like elephant man,i tried the tea bag thng n it dont work for sht.Antibiotics for 3 days and its not going down. the person who said its not as bad as it seems you chat shit and need to fix up. have had lots of abscesses and they never hurt me but this time.WOW I FKIN HURT LIKE HELLLLLLLLLLLLL HELP
PLEASE
One easy solution for the person who uses an earbud in there left ear then gets an abscess,would’nt not using an earbud help? l lol?
I had a painful toothache yesterday and I tried rinsing many times with mouthwash followed by warm salt water. It seemed to help a bit, but I was living off ibuprofen for the day and counting the minutes til my next dose. Then today I woke up and everything on the left side of my mouth was quite swollen. I rinsed with salt water and went back to bed for a couple of hours. When I woke up I was in agony, so I popped an ibuprofen and started rinsing with mouthwash and then salt water over and over. After the second time it was feeling better, I rinsed about 5 times and the swelling and pain was almost gone (though i’m sure the drugs helped). But it also hasn’t returned, I am very relieved because it’s a long weekend and I know I won’t be able to see the dentist for a while. I hope this helps!!
I have had to return to this site after the helpful hints and tips.
I was in agony, couldnt sleep, talk, eat, i wanted to cut my head off (and that is NOT being melodramatic)
I followed many tips i found on here from different posts and put them together…
* Drank a glass of water every 30 Minitues
*Used a Saline mouthwash (salt water) every Hour, (for a good 3-4 minitues)
* Herbal/Perpermint Tea bags pushed against the abscess and gum, (my absis wasnt visable when the pain first hit, but when i woke up the next day my face was 3 times the size and a huge abscess was there)
*I took IBUPROFEN for “pain relief”
(im unsure if many people end up looking how i did for 3 days, only today has my face gone back to ’semi normlal’ and thats 5 days.)
Luckily my abscess split itself and started to leak the smelly poision ………. (AT LAST!!!!) i then helped push and drain the rest out. Followed by more salt water swished around in my mouth for 3 minitues.
I hope some of this can help someone else, as i know exactly how you feel if you are reading this forum!!
A tooth in an abscessing mode will feel exactly as you described:
“I was in agony, couldnt sleep, talk, eat, i wanted to cut my head off (and that is NOT being melodramatic)”
I’ve been there and the best thing I can tell you is get to the ER, right away, for pain meds and an antibiotic. Dentist usually like to have some of the swelling decrease, via antibiotics, b/f they’re able to clearly see the entire problem w/ an x-ray.
WHAT HAPPENS IF I PULL THE ABSCESS TOOTH MY SELF?
HOW?
IT HURTS SO F@#$ING BAD
Hi, I have an abcess right now, but thankfully it doesn’t hurt anymore. I know how painful it can be when it is acts up and seriously if you are having really bad pain you should consider smoking marijuana, or if you are in CA go to a dr. And get another form prescribed. Most toothaches are stubborn to even the most potent painkillers including hydrocorone, and even Morphine. This is due to the fact that the nerve is most likely infected, and opiod pain killers do not work very well on nerve pain. So, if you’re taking ibuprofen and it’s not working (it may help with inflammation, however) it’s likely that you need nerve or root extraction done. Either way, there are actually receptors for cannabis in your body, and marijuana will definitely relieve the pain. Sorry for those who are against it, or don’t have any onhand during the onset of the pain.
I have been killed with pain over the last few days with this abcess and as a result ive been eatting all kinds of pain killers like they were sweeties but to no effect what so ever. However i strongly agree with you that cannabis is an excellent pain reliver an a few smokes will work TEN TIMES better than any percription drugs.
Btw sorry for the typos, typing on my iPhone and was too lazy to proofread, but just realized it compromises my credibility so…Replace act with acting… Hydrocorone…hope you all feel better, and one last thing, i agree with whoever made the post about the author of this article being a little strange… What a misleading article for ppl actually looking for a solution, and btw there are many reasons ppl get cavities, tooth problems and sometimes it CAN’T be prevented! I can think of a million reasons…weak immune, bone structure decay, adolescent neglect, lack of hygiene education to name a few.
Btw sorry for the typos, typing on my iPhone and was too lazy to proofread, but just realized it compromises my credibility so…Replace act with acting… Hydrocorone…hope you all feel better, and one last thing, i agree with whoever made the post about the author of this article being a little strange… What a misleading article for ppl actually looking for a solution, and btw there are many reasons ppl get cavities, tooth problems and sometimes it CAN’T be prevented! I can think of a million reasons…weak immune, bone structure decay, adolescent neglect, lack of hygiene education to name a few.
Holy Cow. So. Im pretty sure Im sh*t out of luck. Im knocked up, and really the only thing I can take is Vikodin. Do you think it will be okay to go to the hospital? I have no isurance, I was going to go yesterday, but started to feel bad cause its not a real emergency…. but yet, Im broke the economy is shitty and I dont think anyone cares anymore. Do you think that I should swish with clove oil… as bad as it tastes???
-mxr
If you are prego and 2x over the poverty limit, you can go get yourself FREE county/state health insurance.
i was pregnant and had bad problems with my teeth… I was in and out of the dentist for most of my pregnancy trying to get it all taken care of… see about getting medicaid they will assist you quite a bit… it’s best for pregnant women to make sure their teeth are in good shape as bad teeth can cause complications with pregnancy… do all you can to protect your unborn child
Hello everyone, I feel all of you when you say you’re in pain, I’ve had a re-accuring abscess in my right back molar, now it’s gotten to the point where vodka won’t even work! I tried popping it several times but it’s gotten to the soft stage and only blood will come out, not to mention it’s extremely tender to the touch now.
So in conclusion, Fck me sideways and call me sally, this shit hurts like a mother efferrrrr
i first started having problems after my dentist insisted that i needed a filling behind my front left tooth. ever since then i have experienced problems, that particular tooth became very sensitive and i had to start drinking through a straw. i first got a tooth ache just after christmas and over new year. i was in agony but it eventially went away after about a week, but a few days ago (saturday) i bit into my flake on my icecream(yum) and it froze my tooth. i didnt really think any thing of it because i was used to its sensitivity but then my tooth started aching and by sunday it had got as bad as it was at christmas however, when i woke up on monday morning my upper lip had swollen a bit and my gums had gone numb i did not experience this last time and i started getting worried, i took paracetamol, this helped the pain but didnt cure it, by tuesday both cheeks had swollen and i was in serious pain. i took a day off and went to the doctors, my doctor then prescribed me with some antibiotics told me to go to the dentist, so i went to the dentist that same day after asking for an emergency appointment. the dentist took an xray and he told me to take double of what the doctor prescribed me and that i had to go back in a few weeks for him to do some ‘treatment’ on my tooth. then this morning(wednessday) i started feeling a lump at the top of my mouth under the bridge. it wasnt painful but very tender. and my lips and cheeks were still swollen. so i took another day off (missing two GCSE exams:/) the swelling has started to go down on my cheeks but the gums are still numb. and im embarrassed to go out while my face is swollen because i look wierd. i hope it goes down soon:/ btw im 16 so i get my dental care free on the NHS.
A while ago I had a root canal and my dentist filled it with a temporary filling. I was 17. My parents didn’t have the money to take me back in and have it finished. Now I am 19 and over time the filling ran down until my tooth had a crater and was pretty much just a shell. The root canal took out the majority of the nerves so I don’t fell much pain. For a while I’ve had a hollow tooth so there’s no suprise that the enfection would grow into an abcess. At first my nerves in my jaw where swollen. The abcess was small but now has filled my hollow tooth to the top and bleeds sometimes. My nerves in my jaw are no longer swollen and have seemed to give up. When I take my finger and put it under my jaw I can feel the bottom part of the abcess against my jaw. The jaw bone its self feels a bit thinner than other side. My parents are losing the house. I am 19 and uninsured. I now have to get a lone so I can go in and have the tooth removed and get some heavy duty antibiotics. I just gargled some salt water and will continue to do so just so to hold me over for the weekend. Tuesday I’ll try to find a dentist. Hopefully the infection hasn’t spread. If I have work done in the future, I will make sure to have it finished in the same day. My only suggestion I can give to others is to gargle salt water throughout the day every day until you can see a dentist. It is important that you don’t pick at it and keep your hands out of your mouth. If you don’t an abcessed tooth, take care of teeth BEFORE they turn bad. I can tell you this from expierence!
Those here who complain of horrid pain from the abscess are not making it sound worse than it is, to whoever mentioned that. I, like you, have had problems with one of my teeth abscessing a few times for a few years. Our type of abscess is chronic, whereas the many here who complain of hellish pain are most likely suffering from acute abscesses. A chronic abscess hurts, yes, but it’s more of a dull, constant pain, which is what I have now.
I done the tea bag thing for a while, and amazingly, once I removed it, nearly all the swelling had gone down in my gums, and it no longer hurt to move my nose….ugh front tooth! No way in hell am I going to allow any dentist to pull that front tooth, especially when I cannot afford a bridge. The tooth itself appears to be fine, but since I have a chronic abscess and have had one for a few years now, the tooth has begun to loosen.
Whoever said to go to the dentist, insurance or not, is EXACTLY right! Look….I am temporarily disabled and unable to work. I get Medicare, but have no dental insurance. I can’t afford to pay attention. I can barely get the food I need, BUT I plan to have this taken care of. They can set it up on payments or whatever….payments I probably cannot pay, but I don’t care. I will have it done and worry about it later, IF I worry at all. My only problem at the moment is that I need to somehow make due until I can scrape up the cash to buy the Clindamycin I will undoubtedly need as no other antibiotic will clear up the infection. After that, and after the infection is gone, I am root canal bound!
is this site not monitored from people who have nothing better to do than rant at each other
go fuck yourselves
Have an abscess right now. Can’t get in to see my dentist for another couple of days. While not nearly as bad as my last bout, this one hurts pretty bad. Someone told me once that putting bread on it would help the pain immediately. The guy was a complete idiot, so I didn’t listen to him. The last abscess I had was horrible. I was in really bad pain and nothing would help. I even took enough prescription pain medication to kill someone. No joke. I think I took 9 pills with codeine. I knew it was dangerous, but the pain was so bad that I literally didn’t care if it killed me. It was a weekend and I couldn’t see the dentist until Monday. I had to have someone drive me to my dentists office on Monday morning and we had to pull over so I could throw up (way to much pain med in my system.) Finally, out of sheer desperation, I tried my idiot friends “bread” remedy (I felt like an idiot). To my amazement, it worked instantly. Of course, it only works as long as the bread stays on the tooth. It would be good to use until something else kicked in…pain meds, antibiotics, whatever.
Well infections and bad teeth don’t ALWAYS have to do with “bad brushing” etc. That’s a very ignorant comment! I have always taken care of my teeth with brushing, flossing, and visiting the dentist and all I ever had was a tiny cavity. That tiny cavity the dentist screw up on and drilled too deep which made me get a root canal. WELL this dentist didn’t get ALL the root out apparently and now 2 yrs later I’m suffering with a huge infection and am going to have to pull the tooth!!! I NOW THANK GOD I have dental insurance and I’m going to have to pull it because even WITH INSURANCE its going to cost minimum 1600-2000 to fix that ONE TOOTH! That’s outrageous!! So instead because of a dentists mistakes I’m going to have to lose a tooth!!!
I had a root canal 2-3 years ago. A week ago the same tooth started to hurt. And just yesterday my cheek was getting swollen. My left cheek is swollen and its tender to the touch. Im almost certian its an abcess, but i cant see it. Could something have gotten stuck between my gums and tooth and got infected? I just started taking penecillin today and maybe 2-3 ibproufen for swelling. I dont have insurance anymore so i cant afford to see a dentist. Should i still try to see one? Or will the anitbiotics and pain killers help?
I’d think you should still go to a dentist; I knew someone who had a root canal, then a few years later had to have the tooth extracted, anyway.
antibiotics* sorry.
I JUST HAVE A REALLY SORE GUM… I WANNA POP IT OR SOMETHING… PULL MY TOOTH OUT… SOMETHING!!! I FLOSS AND MOUTH WAS TWICE DAILY AND HAVE NEVER HAD THIS KIND OF PROB B4… I FIRST THOUGHT IT WAS JUST MY WISDOM TOOTH, BUT WEEKS LATER ITS BIGGER AND MORE SWOLLEN AND EVERYTHING TASTE BAD…. I CANT AFFORD DENTIST A I AM A SINGLE MUM OF 2….. HOW AM I SPOSED TO GET HELp!!!!!!!
AN ADDENDUM TO THE SALT METHOD:
Journey to a natural foods or health foods shop (Whole Foods and the like) and pick up some All Natural Sea Salt. It possesses more antiseptic properties than your regular Iodized table salt.
It is very true that the majority of dental issues stem from lack of preventative measures. That doesn’t make us bad or ignorant, just busy and broke >.
I’ve done everything right including checkups and good oral hygiene. It’s a crock that any of this pain is my fault.
oh my goodness…let me please say to ALL who are mentioning about SEE A DENTIST and WORRY about the bill later…THERE IS NOT ONE DENTIST WHO WILL SEE YOU IN POLK COUNTY FLORIDA IF YOU DO NOT HAVE INS. OR MONEY UP FRONT!! I HAVE CALLED EVERY SINGLE ONE AND THEY DON’T CARE IF THE TOOTH IS HANGING FROM YOUR MOUTH AND YOUR BLEEDING TO DEATH. SHOW ME YOUR MONEY IS ALL THEY SAY! HAVE BEEN ASKED TO PAY THE DENTIST BEFORE THEY SEE ME SO THEY GET PAID! these merciless dentists are only there for you if you have money. there is not ONE who will take payments in polk co. YES I HAVE CALLED EVERY SINGLE ONE FOR HELP FOR MYSELF AND MY DAUGHTER! I WOULD GLADLLY MAKE MY PAYMENTS (NOT ASKING FOR A HAND OUT) BUT THEY WILL NOT LOOK AT YOU! YES AND WHEN YOU GO TO THE ER FOR AN ABCESS THEY SCOULD YOU THAT THIS ISAN’T AN EMERGENCY AND YOU NEED TO FOLLOW UP WITH A DENTIST!! FOR ALL WHO WROTE IN ABOUT “SEE YOUR DENTIST” AND TAKE GET AFFORABLE INSURANCE…HA! HA! HA! LET ME SEE YOU DO IT ON 7.21 AN HOUR AT 18 HRS. A WEEK!! OK …GOOD TRY. i DO TAKE CARE OF MY TEETH BUT AS ANYTHING THEY REQUIRE CARE AND IF YOU CAN’T AFFORD IT WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO DO? 80% OF PEOPLE IN POLK COUNTY FLORIDA LOOK LIKE 3RD/ WORLD CAVEMEN AND ARE OUT SICK FROM WORK WITH ABCESSES AND SICK WITH COLDS AND FLUS BECAUSE THERE RESISTANCE IS DOWN DUE TO NOT BEING ABLE TO EAT CAUSE THEIR TEEThareBAD! IT IS NOT FAIR! THE HOT SHOT DENTIST SAY P— ON YOU I’VE GOT MINE AND MY KIDS TEETH ARE GOOD…I DON’T NEED YOUR PISSY LITTLE 25.00 WEEK PAYMENTS. NO MEDICADE ADULT DENTISTRY EITHER. NOT FAIR! AND NOT ALL OF THE BAD TEETH ARE CAUSED FROM METH EITHER THANK YOU! TRY RUNNING YOUR CAR FOR 3OR 4 YEARS WITHOUT MAINTANANCE AND SEE HOW FAR YOU GET. MY HEART IS BROKEN FOR EACH ONE OF YOU ON THIS SITE AND ESP. IF YOUR FROM FLORIDA! THAT WHITE HOUSE GUY SHOULD DO SOMETHING….JOBS??? HA! GOT TO AN INTERVIEW WITH 3 TEETH AND SMILE AND SEE HOW FAR YOU GET!!! WE NEED HELP OR A FEW COMPASSIONATE DENTISTS. WONDER WHAT THEY WOULD DO IF THEIR KIDS WERE IN PAIN…SORRY FOLKS I HAD TO VENT! ONE MORE THING THE “FREE CLINIC” THAT CHARGES 15.00 A VISIT MAKING YOU LINE UP IN THE DARK AT 3 AM TO ASSURE YOU ARE SEEN BY SOME HEARTESS DENTIST IS WRONG!!! WHERE IS THE MEDICAL ETHICS OF OLD? CAREING AND KIND?? I HAVE BEEN AND AM GOING AGAIN MONDAY SO I KNOW. CATTLE COMING INTO THE BUTCHER PEN AT 7 AM. BUT WAITING IN LINE TO BE SEEN FROM 3 AM. GREAT FOR LOSING ANOTHER DAYS PAY RIGHT? GOOD LUCK AND GODS BLESSINGS ON ALL OF YOU. TAKE CARE!
My tooth has been sore for over 3-4 years now, Im probably the biggest wimp ever and completly dispise this dentist with a passion, Im going to try and force myself to go if this pain doesnt go away in a week, these are some things that have helped me
- Parcadeamol (Great for 1-2 hour pain relief)
- Ibuprofen (Helps lower the swelling and gives you 2-3 hours pain relief)
- Bonjela (This is a teething gel in the UK that cures mouth ulcers, it’ll help bring the swelling down)
- Warm Salt War (Swish for 30 minutes to 1 hour and you wont feel a thing, it’ll give you 1 hour pain relief and do this 3-4 times a day and the infection will slowly decrease)
- Teabag (Put a warm teabag on the tooth or area thats hurting, it’ll be hot for a bit, leave it on for 1-2 hours and the pain will go away for a while, leave it overnight and it’ll slowly drain the puss from the absess, spit it out in the morning)
- Baking Soda & Salt – Same method as above only with a cotton ball
- Massage the area gently with your hand, it’ll take some of the pain away
- Swish cold water around the area for pain relief
- Suck on an ice cube for pain relief
- Apply something cold to the area (Ice Pack, Frozen Foods etc)
- Clove Oil
- Tea Tree Oil
- Peppermint Extract
- Garlic
- Alcohol (Place on cotton ball and leave in absessed area overnight)
Thats all the tips I have, Im 16 years of age and all my dental work is free as I live in the UK. I hope to see the dentist soon even though Im shit scared of him.
Try http://www.earthclinic.com it’s a hollistic website that actually has remedies for almost every ailment. Using everyday ingredients from your kitchen or local store. Hope it helps for anyone who is looking for an alternative to harsh pills or antibiotics… There is a natural way to go about it all. Just check out the website. Who knows it just might help.
i must be missing something.Everyone keeps talking bout warm water helping OMG
Warm, hot, or cold water will all feel terrible if your tooth is abscessing! Trust me, I’ve been there and know your pain.
I WAS CRAMPING AND GOT A TOOTHACHE…..I TOOK LIKE 4 MIDOL AND IT MADE MY TOOTHACHE GO AWAY…..I EVEN GAVE SUM TO MY HUSBAND BE4. HE AGREED IT DID WORK…….
i must be missing something.Everyone keeps talking bout warm water helping OMG if i dont keep ice directly on the tooth the pain gets so bad i cant take it.I take good care of my teeth and have insurance .I went to my dentist today and he never even took a xray he just put me on antib and gave me pain pill witch i might add HAVE DONE NOT A THING .I have heard my dentist doesnt like my insurance so thats why he does a half ass job! why even accept my insurance if you dont like it i would rather pay cash for a good dentist
well, and i thought i was kinda alone on this one. sad to say, obviously i’m not. at the moment, i am trying the teabag method (for the first time ever, directly on the abscess, drooling a mix of spit and tea into a trashcan. ORAJEL SEVERE PAIN FORMULA can knock out the pain for a while, sometimes an hour or more, but can be kinda pricey. the hot saltwater method helps, but seemed to reduce my pain, not the swelling or the throbbing. fact of the mater is, the tooth has to come out, and that goes for us all. i had 10 teeth pulled from my left side (5 upper 5 lower) about 9 months ago. i can eat chips, cookies, chew steak, all that good stuff on that side of my mouth with JUST the gums, and the best part is, haven’t had an abscess on that side at all!. my advice, EVEN IF YOUR TEETH ARE PERFECT, YANK THEM PUPPIES OUT AND GET DENTURES! no rot, no decay, no drilling, no deep cleanings, normally no pain. . . sounds like no worries either. i gaurantee that everyone here knows someone with dentures, but doesn’t know that person has dentures. in conclusion, i can say that the teabag method does work, and quite quickly for me, minimal pain, no pressure, still have the bag on, so i dunno ’bout swelling, but i DO feel better. and also, cheers to “chrissy” for the promotion of marajuana for its medicinal purposes. i don’t car what ANYONE says, at the very least smoking a little pot while dealing with this painful problem can help to subside the pain (to a degree) and help you to fall asleep.
There is nothing quite as mind bending as the pain from abscesses. Even passing kidney stones and migraines don’t compare (childbirth probably does, but I’m a guy) – so I know how you all feel. I have two abscesses right now, both of which were moderate but accessible to pain meds until I had to fly cross country, now they are excruciating and beyond the reach of anything. 48 hours into antibiotics and I can at least type again (I was literally blind with pain for a couple of days – couldn’t drive, couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat, couldn’t think)
To reiterate:
first off: Get antibiotics. Even if you have to go to an urgent care and pay $100 for the on-call dr to see you for 30 seconds. Nothing will make the pain go away like a few days of abx (a few days says you! I can’t last another minute…..hang in there). I never take abx for any infections, but still take them for abscesses.
secondly: don’t freak out. it’s not going to go up to your brain and kill you or destroy your jaw bone overnight. As long as you are not planning on living with the infection for decades you’ll be fine.
third: poster above is right about narcotics not working so well once you pass the point of no return. Go ahead and take em if you got em, but don’t expect magic opiate relief like you might get for a strained back or broken bone. Ibuprofin plus either benzos or benadryl to drop you into a couple hours of sleep honestly works better than even hard core percocets. marijuana may be nice for a variety of reasons, but it also isn’t going to touch hardcore toothache pain.
fourth: activated charcoal also works to draw some of the toxins out. make a paste with it and wrap it around your tooth and gums. works better than bread for sure/
fifth: clove oil works better than orajel, but both only work when your primary pain is the cavity/toothache, not when it is the abscess.
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mostly, you are fucked. There is little that can take the excruciating abscess pain away other than antibiotics and/or lancing it and draining it. Do your salt water and peroxide swishes, take whatever pain killers you can get your hands on (careful of your liver), use local numbing agents like clove oil or ambesol but mostly know that it’s gonna be a bit excruciating for a little while – but rest assured that weaker people than you (trust me, I’m a weenie) have made it through and survived.
And there’s nothing wrong with curling up into a ball and crying now and then.
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As to finances, I have a masters degree and have been unemployed for over 4 months. Dental work is expensive, but you only get one set of teeth so definitely get it checked. There are a couple of different companies (carecredit) is one, that offer no interest credit cards for 12-24 months for qualifying medical expenses. I got approved for $1000 even though my credit is shot and I am unemployed,so check them out.
One voice of reason
I have to respectfully disagree with the above article. Not all abscesses are caused by poor hygiene. Trauma as minor as a headbutt from a small child or biting hard on a hidden bone in food can cause injury and subsequently an abscess.
Sometimes draining of the abscess is necessary, but should never be done at home due to possibly causing more problems.
Most emergency rooms will treat regardless of a patients ability to pay. Hospitals also have financial plans available for low/no income patients significantly reducing the cost and sometimes even writing it off for the most hard up patients.
Antibiotics will temporarily “fix” the problem, but it will come back most of the time. Pulling the tooth is cheaper than a root canal, but unless the offending tooth is a rear molar, it is only cheaper for the short term. Bridges can become expensive in the long run.
My husband and I are in our 60s. The company he worked for went under. We had no income for 9 months and no insurance. He finally found a job making half as much as his old one. I have an abscess and no money. I’ve never had one before. Oragel and ibuprofen have relieved the pain. I put a small piece of cotton covered with oragel on the abscess for about 15 minutes, took two ibuprofen and am much better.
To the mean people who’ve posted crude comments. PEOPLE WHO HAVE WORKED ALL THEIR LIVES ARE LOSING THERE JOBS! WE’RE IN A RECESSION!
GO TO THE HOSPITAL RIGHT AWAY.
THROW ON YOUR CLOTHES AND WALK, OR CRAWL AND SIT THERE FOR TWELVE HOURS AND GET IT PULLED RIGHT OUT.
SOMETIMES YOU WILL BE GIVEN ANTIBIOTICS BEFORE THEY PULL IT OUT FOR A FEW DAYS BUT GO RIGHT BACK AND SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM.
IF you do not, you will be feverish, devilish, hate everyone in your path as the infection spreads to your brain, even in little doses, you will wake in the night feeling terrorized like an anxiety attack and not know shy (infection) you will feel sluggish, under the weather, look dragged out and drawn out and look old from managing the pain, the house will fall apart and you will be so pissed off at dentists who do not help because you did not listent o your grandmother and save money for a rainy day.
I WANT YOU TO WRITE ME BACK HERE WHEN YOU GET BACK FROM THE HOSPITAL.
No INSURANCE, then get billed and pay it with a koolaide stand if you fricken have to.
After you get home from the hospital, get comet and clean your entire bathroom, use hot water on all laundry for towels and sheets and pillow cases and throw out your toothbrush and pillow.
Then use lysol in the entire house to kill any germs.
DO NOT SHARE LIPSTICK,GLASSES, BOTTLES, OR TOOTHBRUSHES WITH ANYONE, including girlfriends or boyfriends.
Once a day use hydrogen peroxide for a short gargle and swish after you brush your teeth.
Floss at least three times a week.
Try to rinse your mouth after eating anything such as coffee and gum or treats.
Now take a good long look in the mirror and scream, DEVIL BE GONE!!!!!!!!
and one more thing, you deserve to be healthy and happy and “take good care of yourself you belong to me!”
you belong to yourself and love yourself enough to take care of yourself.
NOW GO RIGHT NOW!!!!
YAH YOU!!!!
GET UP AND GO TO THE HOSPITAL.
Here are just a few things i’ve heard. Hope they help you in any way. I’m currently trying them all! Damn my shitty teeth and no job to afford a dentist! Dry tea bags on the gums, swish with warm salt water. Drink LOTS of water! Take motrin or antibotics if you can, swish with salt and baking soda, swish with peroxide and water, use a peeled potato slice like the tea bag to help draw the posion out. I’m in so much pain! I hope they help me and you!
i am in so much pain,its throbbing like my mouth is gona explode!i have always looked after my teeth,brushed flossed,visit the dentist every 6mths for scale and clean.anyhow,i hav taken a course of antibiotics,which didnt help and now im another course.i dont know what to do,my tooth was extracted 3days ago because the root of the tooth was cracked and ive had this pain for over a week now,its stiil throbbing!
I do salt water rinses 4to5 times a day.please someone help me!i also hav a temperature,nausea and my cheek really hurts.ive been to the dentist 3times.the third visit,he irrigated the socket with antiseptic and placed antibacterial material in there.that hasnt helped.i dont hav a lump in my mouth,so i cant locate exactly where the abscess is!
Hey, I started getting the suspicious toothache last night whilst out with friends. I barely got any sleep last night from it as it was getting worse. I went straight to the emergency dental this am and got antibiotics.
I live in London, UK. I’m not sure how the U.S insurance system works. I paid £78 ($127) for exam, xray and antibiotics this was not an NHS dentist. Im just about to take my third antibiotic before bed. I’m taking Amoxycillin 500mg every 8 hours for 5 days. The pain is still there and I have taken my codeine quota for the day. Nightmare.
The dentist said the only sure way to clear the infection after antibiotics is root canal. The antibiotics can only treat the soft tissue and cannot penetrate the tooth pulp as there is no blood supply.
Seriously though an untreated abscess can lead to blood poisoning and can affect the heart. I think that its terrible that some of you cant get the medical help you need because of finances.
What would happen seriously if you got the treatment and then were unable to pay the bill? Could you pay back in installments? Is it an offence?
Hope you all feel better soon
I woke up with a huge abscess on my gum. In the next 24 hours it doubled in size with a lot of swelling and pain. I am lucky enuf to have insurance so went to the dentist today. They wouldnt do anything for me with the current infection except to give me a script for an antibiotic.
Heres what I wanted to tell everyone. Giant eagle ( a local grocery store chain) filled the aantibiotic script for FREE. If you dont have insurance go to your local ER. The doctor can write a prescription for the medicine and several big chain pharmacie will fill it for free. As for the pain, I wanted to pop the abscess but the dentist had told me NOT too. Well on my way home it broke open anyway. The pain was almost immediately relieved. I then cam home and swished with salt water and then applied a tea bag to help draw out the rest of the infection. It feels and looks a million times better. Good luck everyone!
4 days and 4 nights no sleep no food just the worst pain ever cant take it anymore mate comming over in a hour to take it out drinking loads of vodka so hopefully wont feel it wish me luck
I agree not all abscesses are “our fault” I had a dentist up here in Canada be a gold digger, instead of filling a cavity on my front tooth right he only drilled part of it out (which he and my OB/GYN said was caused by my severe all-day sickness while pregnant, the stomach acids ate the enamel and made the cavity very easy to get even with brushing/flossing properly). After a few weeks I went back and had another cavity, the tooth beside it, while he did the same thing, after the 4th cavity all adjoining teeth, my teeth started to fall apart. They were literally chipping apart, I went to the dentist (same and only one in our town) and he told me “Oh those aren’t anything to worry about, that is calcium deposits breaking off, that is you “real” healthy teeth underneath”. When they started to change color I decided to go to another dentist for a second opinion. Instead of helping he accused me of being bulimic, said it was the only was to get the erosion, told me that he didn’t buy it that my pregnancy caused me to vomit 15-20 times a day, that it was “unheard of” and said the only way he would fix my teeth is if I seeked “psychiatric help” for my eating disorder. Finally I found a third dentist (4hrs away) and after looking at the shooty job the other dentist did filling my teeth (he left “holes” in the filling in between the teeth) he took x-rays and showed me how the dentist drilled and “patched” over cavity. He patched them so well that two of them the cavities moved above the gum line and ate the teeth beside them downwards and kept moving over, from the outside the teeth looked prefect but on the x-ray it clearly showed the teeth under the gums were rotted (just from the bottom to midway to the gum line). The other two the cavity moved in between the teeth but stopped at the ones next to them because those other two he filled he didn’t leave “holes” in between them. (BTW he even left uneven patches on my teeth, they are rough not smooth, and got DIRT trapped in two of the fillings he did, told me it was normal discoloration and would “go away” in time on it’s own, took the other dentist to burst my bubble and tell me he trapped dirt on them and it wouldn’t go away.)
27yrs old and the dentist told me because of the “crap work” done in my mouth I had to lose 80% of my upper plate, he told me it was pointless to keep the other 20% and I should go for a full dental plate on top.
Here in Canada we don’t have dental covered under our universal health care, we were quoted $150 per tooth to pull and $500 for dentures. We have no dental coverage and even if we did we can’t afford the up front cost (Military accidentally remove myself and our kids off my husbands plan when he signed his new contract, been waiting 6months now and still aren’t back on. Even if we were where we are posted no dentists will do electronic billing so everything is up front). Sad part is with our income we SHOULD be able to afford it, but we have a severely disabled child, our above cost…over and above what our universal health care covers ran us $21K last year. Without medical coverage (for prescriptions) at the moment our out of pocket has ballooned this year, we’ve taken out a 20K line of credit just to cover his costs on top of our usual expenses. There is NO WAY even with our “wonderful coverage” that we can afford any of it. So now I sit and suffer, I have two abscesses currently and the dentist wants $350 up front just to do x-rays, do his appointment and book another one for removal. $350 that we do not have, and that doesn’t even cover removal! Even better, besides being able to report the dentist for his shooty work we were told we can not sue, why? because we can not prove that he intentionally screwed up the work on my teeth. WONDERFUL! You know what he got when we reported him? A $5000 fine, but doesn’t have to pay to fix the damage he did.
I am completely humiliated over my teeth, I use to smile with pride and was going in for a speech/lang pathologist until I got working with my son’s SLP…a lot of the exercises your teeth show, and I refuse to show mine, I’m embarrassed to go to yet another dentist because I don’t want to have to explain why it looks like I don’t take care of my teeth. I don’t go out with my husband to big events (Regimental Ball, Church Parade, etc which is HUGE in the military world), when I talk, laugh, or smile I cover my mouth and I hardly ever kiss my husband anymore because of the embarrassment.
I rather hide until we have the money to go else where for treatment, I am too embarrassed of the possibility of the dentist that works on my mouth seeing me in public. I am too embarrassed that I will be that “disgusting patient” some dentist will talk about, I am too embarrassed to have anyone find out how bad my teeth are. How horrible is it to lose your teeth at 27 because of someone trying to CAUSE cavities to gain more money? I know there are VERY VERY FEW dentist like the one I seen…just sad that I had to find him. =( Wasted all that money thinking he was helping me and look where I’m at now? SCREWED!
I do say the tea bags work, you can also go to the pharmacy and buy antibiotic liquid that you put directly on the gums. It works wonderfully at getting rid of the pain (almost instantly, it does “sting” for a minute or two but then there is no pain!) and does remove infection though if the abscess is severe you need to see your dentist as it can lead to jaw infections, Endocarditis (inflammation of heart muscle) and septicemia of the brain. It’s called Dequadin, you apply it to the infected area every 2-3hrs until the infection is gone. When I told my dentist about the abscesses he told me to go on it, as they weren’t severe at the time, and said it should take care of it but if there isn’t significant reduction in swelling, pain, and “pus pocket”, (or it gets worse) oral antibiotics need to be started ASAP. Though I’m “suffering” still within 2hrs of the first application the swelling was down 50%, after 6hrs 90% of the swelling was gone and the pus pocket has shrunk a lot! I was surprised by the size difference. This med is an antibiotic, antifungal, and oral pain reliever. He did tell me to continue on it for 7days AFTER the infection seems to be gone because even though it looks to be gone small amounts of infection can still be there which will cause it to flare back up later on. Just like any other med if you stop it before the infection is wiped out the next infection may not respond to it as well, or might not even touch it at all. Oh he also said it was ok to sleep through some treatments but to not go longer then 6hrs….so if you wake up to go pee during the night make sure you slap some on.
I hope this helps someone =) and I hope you all feel better fast!
I am appalled at this article, and surprised I read it and all the comments when there are tons of better advice out there. Stating an abcess is 100% preventable is just a huge crock of sh*t! Happens to good people who do take care of themselves.
As far as expensive – I so agree! Dentists seem to be one of the most expensive docs outh there (aside from plastic surgery or the like…) But dental issues are the rare exception that we pretty much let it go til it’s unbearable, and have no choices. And dentists 99% of the time do not allow payment plans! I was shocked to read that on some posts. At least none of the dentists in our area of the country (southwestern USA) or where I grew up (eastern USA). 100% up front or no treatment. Um, for somene who has no credit cards left and no money, it’s impossible to get care. Medicaid will only cover emergencies, but not the treatment. And to get on Medicaid takes months, by then you could be dead from the infection or pain.
Let me say 1st, I work in a doctor’s office, billing dept even. No, doctors do not get anywhere near what people think they get paid. Takes forever and a ton of work to get paid by most insurance companies. (but, hey, that’s why I have a job…) But even the specialists that I work for accept payment plans. So, why I can not find a dentist to do the same? And we do not kill and overcharge our selfpay patients to the extreme either! Dentists, I’d rather get pregnant and have a baby – it’s cheaper! LOL!
But as far as what I’ve read on here – I am so so alarmed! Please, do not intentionally “pop” any pus or swollen pockets of ous or abcess!!! My God, you have no idea how dangerous that is! Infections in the mouth can lead DIRECTLY to the heart! Not exaggerating here. Serious problem can arise from an abcessed tooth. And yes, even DEATH! I’m sure it would alleviate the pain by the pressure “popping” and all, but if done wrong or the infection spreads…. Make sure to take antibiotics if available. (A primary care doctor is usually cheaper than a dentist to get started). And if you don’t have any heart /high blood pressure issues, then salt and warm water rinse is so advised. Sea salt is better. But any salt in warm water and used as a rinse is good. Natural antiseptic. Mouthwash, like Lysterine is good too. Hurts like crazy tho. And saltwater used to make me sick to my stomach as a kid, but I swallowed too much. Not the best tasting stuff, but pain has a way of making you not care so much.
I had the 3 remaining Wisdom teeth pulled last Wed. Hurts like hell. Better than Wed night, but htis is Sat night and I still ache. I googled and found remedies for dry socket (which I don’t think is my issue, thank God) and will buy some oil of clove tomorrow. The stitches hurt the most for me. Luckily seems to be no infection. But was swollen til yesterday and hurts like crazy. Vicoden helps me not to care, but doesn’t really take it away and certainly isn’t going to work on Monday when I need to drive and function…
But I had to comment on the practice of popping and draining the abcess. Please, please be careful! Warm saltwater every 30 min if it does pop! And get yourself to a dentist ASAP! And for expense purposes, any good ER doc or Urgent care doc and or primary care doc should be able to help in the short term if abcessed! Infection can KILL – be careful!
ER is the only place I’ve found that HAS to take you, regardless if you have insurance or not!
I have a tooth abscess…but It is because I got my wisdom tooth removed a couple of months ago. The dentist didn’t tell me it broke when it came out. I now have a serious absess from one of the splinters they missed, and need to get oral surgery to get it removed. I brush twice a day, and floss just as much. I put a wet cotton ball in a mixture of 1/2 salt and 1/2 baking soda, and put it between my gum and the cheek. This pulled the infection out of my cheek for long enough for me to make it BACK into the dentist. The point is, getting an abscess doesnt’ always mean you are neglecting you hygien!!!
thank u guys for ur kind suggestions. the comments n suggestions r of more help than the article itself. thats why i love internet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi, while back in high school I had a root canal done on a tooth in my mouth. Since that time, the tooth have steadily decayed and broken. This morning I woke up to my face swollen and I’m in so much pain. I don’t know whether it is an absese but can someone please give me some advice on how to heal the pain. I swished warm salt water and that did not help it actually made it feel worse. I’ve taken pain relivers over and over and it helped the pain but the swelling and redness is still there please help
I’ve had a pounding headache off and on since yesterday and it stems from one of my lower left molars. It got so bad tonight (Sunday) I was ready to go to the ER to get any kind of relief. Before i left I wanted to try a home remedy as a last resort, so I found one that said to use one half teaspoon baking soda and one half teaspoon of salt in 8 oz. warm water. I rinsed for two to three minutes followed by another glass of plain water and amazingly the pain was gone within minutes and I’ve been pain free for about an hour as if nothing had happened. I plan on seeing my dentist as soon as possible, but am relieved that this method has bought me some time. Thank you for whoever posted it.
Your comment about avoidable with better oral care is offensive. There are many variables, you should not be so assanine. You have turned me off this website.
My own personal remedy for a tooth abscess:
After having read many blogs, I gave up. Swilling cool tap water, thus cooling your mouth temperature will work for a while. The cooling down of the tissue will make the capillaries (small veins) contract, thus causing the nerves that cause the pain to stop functioning properly. The water must not be extremely cold as this can cause pain to the teeth.
If the pain still persists, try my kiwifruit remedy.
Do as follows:
ONE teaspoon of kiwifruit lodged against the painful area will immediately cause the pain to disappear. Keep it there for at least a couple of minutes! Just remember that this fruit contains around 100mg of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and will eventually burn into the tissue! As soon as you feel it burning, swallow it! Over the last weekend I consumed more than 20 kiwifruit and without any diarrhea. This fruit can boost your immune system and give you extra natural energy. The basic idea is to periodically have a piece of kiwi against the painful area for a few minutes, swallow it, rinse with cool water, and then after a few minutes repeat the process.
I find that the gold kiwi is slightly better than the green one, not so sharp, but both will stop the pain.
Don’t wait too long before seeing a dentist with a tooth abscess as it can kill you! The bacteria is very nasty stuff! It will eventually, if not treated, eat it’s way through the soft bones in your face & spread to other parts of the body. Your brain and your heart are extremely vulnerable!
After trying ibuprofen, vinegar, paracetamol, codeine, marijuana and many other useless remedies, I finally found a very common fruit with pain relieving properties.
As far as I know, there is no mention on the WWW about kiwifruit helping relieve pain from a tooth abscess. Not all the properties of this fruit have been established (yet.)
I would be grateful to hear from anyone who tries this with some success, good luck to all of you!
After having read many blogs, I gave up. Swilling cool tap water, thus cooling your mouth temperature will work for a while. The cooling down of the tissue will make the capillaries (small veins) contract, thus causing the nerves that cause the pain to stop functioning properly. The water must not be extremely cold as this can cause pain to the teeth.
If the pain still persists, try my kiwifruit remedy.
Do as follows:
ONE teaspoon of kiwifruit lodged against the painful area will immediately cause the pain to disappear. Keep it there for at least a couple of minutes! Just remember that this fruit contains around 100mg of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and will eventually burn into the tissue! As soon as you feel it burning, swallow it! Over the last weekend I consumed more than 20 kiwifruit and without any diarrhea. This fruit can boost your immune system and give you extra natural energy. The basic idea is to periodically have a piece of kiwi against the painful area for a few minutes, swallow it, rinse with cool water, and then after a few minutes repeat the process.
I find that the gold kiwi is slightly better than the green one, not so sharp, but both will stop the pain.
Don’t wait too long before seeing a dentist with a tooth abscess as it can kill you! The bacteria is very nasty stuff! It will eventually, if not treated, eat it’s way through the soft bones in your face & spread to other parts of the body. Your brain and your heart are extremely vulnerable!
After trying ibuprofen, vinegar, paracetamol, codeine, marijuana and many other useless remedies, I finally found a very common fruit with pain relieving properties.
As far as I know, there is no mention on the WWW about kiwifruit helping relieve pain from a tooth abscess. Not all the properties of this fruit have been established (yet.)
I would be grateful to hear from anyone who tries this with some success, good luck to all of you!
If there is a hole keep it clean… Keep a toothpick handy and remove food after u eat…take4-6 motrin and stand under a hot shower til the pain subsides. Injectin liquid anbesol in it with a dropper helps too.
Agree, a toothpick or even those plastic ones that can be bought in the store’s dental isle are great to keep in your car or purse for 24/7 use. After a piece of tooth falls out you have about 2 years, before the root will start becoming infected and seriously hurting. This is how mine went anyway and by year 3 I was in agonizing pain, where I wanted to just die!
I had one accute abcess tooth. It was the worst pain of my entire life so far. Wors by far than the time I snapped my leg in two right above the ankle. My regards and condolences to ANYONE suffering pain like I did with my tooth being abcessed.
WOW! Someone is quite cocky. Thanks for the non-advice and yet the great “what you should have done” speech.
My husband (the one with the abscess) has a GREAT job, GREAT medical insurance, and mediocre dental insurance (because it is a rarity to find GREAT dental insurance since dental insurance is behind the times). He also takes care of his teeth; his whole family have sever dental issues. His mom and dad both were in dentures by a young age and he and his brother have terrible teeth issues. It doesn’t always have to do with whether you take care of them or not. Sometimes they are bad to begin with and you are fighting a battle you can’t win. The truth is, my husband will be in dentures at a young age as well.
Now, back to the insurance. My husband and I make great money, but with three children who have to go to the doctor, dentist, school tuition, and all the other things a child needs we, as parents, tend to be put on the back-burner. So, get off of your high horse. If you have something useful to say, say it. Otherwise…..
Never have been able to find anyplace with great dental insurance benefits. Maybe state workers are the only ones with it??
I saw quite a few good remedies here, and one ( -cough- ) biatch post, man… either someone had to have pissed in her cereal that day, or she was refused her mothers tit for food as an infant. Jeez I hope she’s not married, I’ll take the abcess over her.
Anyway thanks to all those who posted remedies ans such, im still waiting for a dental visit for antibiotics and hopefully and extraction. And yes it might not completly dulled the pain but at least its more managable per se…
I’m kind of in the same situation as many people here. Though I can honestly say that I am not looking for a home remedy to what has definitely become a more advanced medical problem. I understand that people have been using “home” remedies for ages, but for curing an infection, I still think that nothing beats a solid dose of antibiotics. Of course, most the advice given so far is merely to reduce pain and swelling UNTIL you can get the dental attention you require. I am currently dealing with a broken and infected tooth. Either the filling came out, or I cracked it chomping down on seeds accidentally. It’s been this way for a few months, but only recently started to hurt and weep. It took a pretty frantic search to find an office that will take someone who is uninsured. My initial visit is tomorrow. How have I handled the discomfort? Swishing with whiskey. Just a little bit at a time. It helps a little, but it is best done when you have nowhere you need to be. Swishing with a really strong mouthwash would do it too for a short while.
well here i am reading everyones post’s the good home remidies and the drama lol… I’ve had an abcess for about three days now and I have the clove oil, i do the salt water trick and normally just pop it and I’m fine, but this time my abcess seems to be in my jaw. It hurts alot I use a heating pad on my face and also a tylonal 3. I understand most of us have no dental and the thing that works best for me is popping it and the clove oil, the cloves work for any kind of tooth ache.
Anyways as for the people writing stupid rude comments this is a site to help people in pain not to bitch about others grow up!!!! I came on here because I am in pain and wanted help with my tooth ache not to get bitchier over your drama.Anyways thank you for the remidies and advice I wrote it all down and am going to try it all.
I have an abscess, the right side of my face, lower jaw has been swollen for 7 days now, ive been to the dentist twice this week, and the local E.R. once b4 my 2 dentist Appointments. i have another app. monday, i’ve been on Amoxicillin for 4 days now, but the swelling doesnt seem to be going away, and it is still hard as a rock… i dont know what to do.. the doc tells me to keep take’n the amoxicillin he gave me, that it will go away without needing to be drained, or he will drain it when it comes to a head. but neither seems to be happening.. im just wondering.. how long does it take to come to a head.. cause it started hurting last night, i havent had much pain really until yesterday, i cant sleep at night, and its really start’n to get to my head.. help please.. what should i do?!?!?
P.S. i dont have dental insurance…. i’m paying out of pocket.. im a broke musician and i cant afford the payments.. but as for an update my abscess got really soft over night, i think its coming to a head, and ready to be drained.. i go to the dentist tomorrow for that!, wish me luck, im pretty excited!!, but help, i cant sleep good, i toss and turn all night, anyone have any pointers on how to sleep when ur face is swollen?
wow i guess i am not the only one to have dental issues it wasnt really important to me to i realized that it is really bad to get an abcess and not get it treated .i didnt realize you can die from it .the got better after a few days of antibioctics so life went back to nornaL.now i have been in pain for a few days now and i am afraid of overdosing on tylenol or advil i need it every two hours and i am up most of the night .this time the abcess is so bad it is actually scaring me .i need to have all my teeth pulled out .when i was younger i was bulimic and that has rotted my teeth beyond repair or beyond what i can afford.it is much cheaper to pull out my teeth and get dentures .i was one of those people who use to judge people who were young and had false teeth.i use to call them scumbage now i am one of those scumbags .i would rather spend my money going on vacation and using it for things that i am going to have fun doing .the abgcess is so bad i dont know what to do .i would like to try the superglue thing but i am afraid i will do it wrong and glue my mouth shut .i am finally takinhg the antibioctics i was prescribed a while ago .so i still had them left over from last time .the dentist i am going to only wants to pullout one tooth at a time because my teeth arent that bad and he can justify the need to medicare .but i am not going to suffer like this anymore.i rince with salt water and perioxide .i wish everyone good luck taking care of theree teeth issues and dont liet it go it can kill you if the infection gets into your blood stream it can cause a stroke or heart attack or even death .so please listen to your body and seek whatever medical attention you can get .hopefully my will be done tommorrow .
I have an abcess in my left cheek, near a broken tooth and a wisdom tooth trying to come in. I have had nothing but painful problems, but this is the first abcess for me. I have tried popping it, but it only seems to get bigger. I rinse and brush three times a day, tried olive oil, cloves, and nothing seems to be working. I have not tried the tea bag, but will here in a bit. When I eat, it swells up as well. I am puzzled by this and like many, wish it would just go away.
For those rinsing with hydro for severe tooth pain, I used it like it was going out of style and it does work. Try and avoid eating cold food and risning with cold water. Salt water helps as well. I wish there was the perfect needle to pop and abcess. I will post again about the tea bag and hopes it helps.
PS, my abcess is hard as a rock and white and red in color? I have popped it and blood drains out, but then swells right back up? I cannot open my mouth normal, more like less then halfway, chew hard foods or chips and my jaw hurts?
To all those posting here complaing about not having money to pay a dentist every 6 months…
First, it is NOT “hundreds” for a basic dentist visit. If so, find another dentist.
Next, have you considered canceling your internet and cable/satellite TV, and cell phone for 6 months (or other optional items such as iPods, Movie Tickets, tobacco, alcohold). That should give you hundreds of dollars. That is more than enough money for several dentist visits..for an entire family. Oh, you don’t like that option. Well, you do have the choice….and you get to live with the consequences. You can choose luxuries over health care….but you can’t whine about wanting someone else to foot your health care when you do.
Anyone that is spending their money on anything other than basic shelter, food, and clothing has no grounds to complain not having money for healthcare. They only need to look in the mirror to find the reason they don’t have the money to take care of themselves.
ur so full of shitake mushrooms bud, dentist minimal cost 500 for xray and surgical extraction moron, wow did you even grad high school or jr. high, im thinking jr high you cut out cuause you go someone preggy bummer, trailer trash life sucks don’t it ?
So i came on here looking for temporary relief for a friend who is in painand looking for temporaryreleif from the abscess in her mouth untl her dentist appointment next week. A few different things caught my attention as well that i would like to comment on:
firstly to the orignall poster who stated that abscess’s are a result of poor oral hygiene ONLY…what a bunch of shit! My husband hasnt been to the dentist in 7 years..not sure why although he doesnt go but thats his decision..he hasnt had a single problem with his teeth his entire life. No cavities, root canals and no abscess’s. I on the other hand visit my dentist every 8-12 months, brush my teeth 2x a day, floss once a day and have had 7 cavities..but still not a single abscess. My friend who currently has the abscess has had a prefect track record all her life when it comes to her teeth…no cavities, fillings, root canals etc until 7 months ago were she passed out, smacked her face on the tile floor and chipped her 4 front teeth..for this she needed root canals and a crown put in to fix…no she has an abscess..huh wondered how that happened considering its only cause by bad oral hygiene.
To the commenter above me (Tired of)..thank you..finally someone said EXACTLY what i was thinking..all you bitch about not being able to afford health insurance and what not..that would be fine and my heart would go out to you if you wearnt sitting on a computer or iphone(which last time i checked didnt come cheap), on the internet (which again…is a luxury) complaining about being broke…jeez i wonder why you have no money.
I can honestly say that after reading all the insults being slung back and forth especially to those just looking for help or providing information, It makes me very proud to NOT be American!!
lol you wish you could be an american lol it’s ok my government will brain wash you with our sorry ass mind controlling drugs too, good luck with that osama bin bomb head
there is NO relief you’re all gonna die, it’s inevitable, one day somehow.
now, as for the pain, i have been awake over a week, 2 hospital visits, dentists won’t touch it.
im in so much pain i could die, i want to die, slitting my wrists would be less painfull then this fu… sh….
i hvae thrown up every hour on the hour because of the pain, im in tears all ***ing day, *** this Sh**8
i hope a truck hits me, there is NO cure foR THE PAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!
I had an abscess and this worked for me. 1. find a teeth whitening tray (clean all the gel out first) 2. fill it with salt in position where your abscess is located 3. pop the pus 4. place the tray over the popped pus (it will be painfull for 10 seconds) 5. leave it for at least 30 minutes — you will feel better. then rinse with warm water –
repeat process every 4 hours.
I had this pain come on 2 days ago, i woke up the day prior with a cold then hit the right side of my face on some material at work, wasnt a big deal lil sore, then i woke up in bad pain and my lower jaw was swollen not much thought though as i had hit it. THat night i had alot of issues sleeping between the sinus wreaking havoc in my head and the jaw i was in bad shape. When i finally did doze off i woke up to pretty nasty breath and lots of pain, was hitting the aleve hard and found out tonight my symptoms are just this….I’ve had the tea bag in my mouth for around an hour or so now, pain is there but not as severe and now the bag is starting to get a nasty taste to it so i’m thinking maybe itsdraining, not as swollen up anymore…
First time i went to the dentist was when i was 17, didnt have a single issue not a cavity or nothing, went again last year on a dare from my fiance(i hate doctors and dentists) and again checked out great. I brush before bed, rinse in the morning and have chewed tobacco since i was 13….And yet no problems till i walk into a steel plate
8 year old son with abscess. He has a cavity near the gum. We went to family dentist, but he would not cooperate, so referral to pediatric dentist. Not one dentist on our insurance would schedule an appointment knowing he is not cooperative. Switched insurances and now on a waiting list for a doctor who will sedate if needed.
Called ped yesterday morning who gave him Amoxicillin, but 3am this morn he was fevered and his face was twice the size it was the day before. She sent him to the ER. Doc said he was borderline admission. Gave him IM antibiotic shot (screamed for 30 mins) and added Cleocin to the Amox. His face is still swollen really bad and now red and he is running low grade fevers. How long before we see a change with antibiotics?
He also had his tonsils out about 1 month ago. Any one know of a relation with tonsilectomy? All I could think is that before tonsils, he was on antibiotics pretty consistently and the two weeks after his tonsilectomy it was very difficult to get him to brush good.
ER doc commented he commonly sees this with adults, but children typically have mom’s who make them brush, so not so much with children. I was livid! Informed him that Mom and Dad at home who MAKE him brush morning and night. We even buy our boys power toothbrushes that seems to work better. There are issues with the formation of all my boys teeth, one who has cleft palate. Docs should watch what they say, especially not knowing the situation.
Very concerned…
I am reading through this to find relief for my wife. She has an abcess.. or at least its a swolen sack of pus on her gum. She is in a lo of pain and her face is starting to swell. She is going to the dentist tomorrow.. but would like more help for now. We go to the LSU School of Dentistry in New Orleans and they are TONS cheaper than a regular dentist.
The oral hygiene bit is a bold face lie btw.. there are documented cases throughout history of cultures who never brushed their teeth once in their lives and have perfectly healthy teeth and gums.
This is due to proper nutrition and avoiding all the chemicals and sugars that are in our American overproduced foods.
Like doctors, dentist equipment in dentistry school are paid for by pharmaceutical companies and people who make oral hygiene products. The oral hygiene thing is mostly made up to sell products.. the only reason why it seems to work is because we do not eat properly in this country.
If we could eat properly with perfect nutritional needs our bodies would heal all tooth problems and prevent them.. as a healthy body is designed to do. There would never be a need for any oral hygieny..
These sound far fetched, but they are facts.. study proper nutrition and you will see.
I forgot to say.. I had a pus sac like hers that appeared after a tooth removal.. it was the worst pain I had ever had. When I could not stand it any longer, I got a needle cleaned with fire and alcohol and popped it.
It was instant relief. It healed up nicely and did not return.. all that pus just needed to be let out.
When I told my dentist, he seemed surprised that I would do this myself, but did not say anything about this being bad or wrong to do.
It’s your body. Do what you feel is right for you. Weigh the pros and cons carefully, and if you pop a pus sack, be very careful and try not to swallow anything nasty. Follow this up with a good cleaning to the area and some gauze until it stops draining/bleeding.
Sometimes you know best, better than the doctor.
For those of you still unsure if you can pop that abscess or not:
In a post above a person who worked in a doctors office (not herself a doctor) said never to pop one. She was wrong.
Well if you are in tons of pain and you cannot get to the dentist and you must have relief you can go ahead and pop that sucker.
THIS Dentist tells you it’s o.k. to do so and even shows you how! – So, Dr. Approved.. Go ahead and Pop it!
Go to You Tube and search and find a video called: ” Dental Health : Can You Pop an Abscessed Tooth? ”
( I can’t seem to get this to post if I type the URL, so please search for the video manually.)
Watch the video first, get some strong antibacterial mouthwash to clean the area with before and after and Pop Away!
I have tried all the different remedies and nothing seems to work… the best option I had was rinsing my mouth with a bit of whiskey and spitting it out. Of course my mouth went numb but after 20 minutes the pain came back stronger than ever.
I can honestly say this is the worst pain I’ve felt in my life 2 days of this crap… I passed out on purpose last night to try get some relief and woke up an hour later wishing I was dead….
my dad wont let me go to a dentist and all he says is its my fault… what a bunch of bullshit
“If you are here because you or someone you know is suffering from mouth abscess then let me tell you that this was a perfectly avoidable situation had you taken better oral care. We actually put ourselves into this situation (including myself!) and then regret and repair.”
Um, let me correct you on this. I’m currently in a situation of having a severe abscess tooth. I take good care of my teeth and there are NO cavities in this tooth. Let me repeat that…The tooth that is infected has NO sign of cavities or decay, and TWO different dentists confirmed that. There has also been any known trauma to the tooth. I know this is a rare situation but apparently it does happen! You CAN get an abscess tooth even if you take care of your teeth…it is not “entirely avoidable.” Do your damn research before popping off and acting like people who suffer from this created the problem themselves and it’s their own damn fault!
U people are mostly insane! I just wanted a remedy for my mouth
Hi everyone. I love this site, I am going to try some of the tips – especially the teabag overnight thing. I will call the dentist tomorrow (monday) to get some antibiotics – they usually work for me. I am using a gel called Anbesol at the moment which really helps. I’m overdosing on iburoprofen too as it takes a LOT to ease (not kill just ease) the pain.
I am awaiting a root canal on a “hot” tooth – the pain is too severe they can’t even drill anywehre near the nerve before I am squirming in agony, so its a waiting game until the root dies. Whilst waiting the abscess formed… I just want the tooth out! The money I save on treatments can go towards a food processor to mash up all my meals so I can gum them down!!!
I hope everyone gets sorted out – insurance or not, NHS or private – no one should have to suffer this kind of pain without an end in sight. It makes you wonder how many abscess related suicides are going on out there every day!!!
Good luck everyone, my thoughts are with you… x
I Had My Tooth Fracture A Few Years Ago And They Filled It With A Fake Tooth
Now My Tooth Really Hurts I Can’t Eat Or Chew On It, My Face Is A Bit Swollen
It’s Saturday And There Are No Dentists Open
What Could Be The Problem?
I Can’t Even Sleep Properly, It Just Keeps On Throbbing, And It’s My Top Left Back Tooth
I Have Tried Salt Water And Tea Bag
I Can’t Even Get To Sleep
Hurts So Much Its Saturday And Can’t Go To The Dentist
Help
ASAP
My illiterate parents made my perfectly aligned and healty teeth/jaws through a cheap intern orthodontic treatment without my consent. After that along 10 years I am suffering from absolute temperomandibular joint disorder and bruxism symptoms let resulting detoriative abscess alone which are ruining my previously robust life and career. I am a victim of illiteracy. I am afraid of that agony will hold the eternity doomed forever let alone my nullified fate.
Hello everyone i heard all your comments and complaints and the great remedies for abscess and tooth aches. I did my 6 months visits to the DDS with no problems never had a cavity or a filling all was done was cleaning never needed it. Yet 8 months ago i had a stroke which left my left side with limited movement. which is strange why this would affect my teeth. I had to have heart surgery left me with a mechanical valve which means i have to be on blood thinners for the rest of my life and have to pre medicaid before seeing a dentist. Now i need 2 root canals and have 3 cavities aswell as having periodontal disease. Im in so much pain and having heart surgery i would have to wait till im healed to get any work done. Im scared that if i wait to see a dentist my heart will stop but getting work done and being too soon will cause me to have an abscess. Any suggestions PLEASE HELP!
Back in the early 1900’s, Dr. Price, from the same American Dental Association group that seem to have completely overlooked his research of many cultures throughout the world who didn’t have cavities at all, found it’s not brushing your teeth that prevents cavities, but the foods you eat, that either cause cavities from the inside of your body, or stop cavities from getting worse altogether, from proper nutrition (natural foods).
I’ve had 3 cavities for many years, and finally tried this last year. For the whole year, no pain at all. Of course the other day, I bit down hard on a piece of pizza which I’ve been eating regularly against his suggestion (no white bread or flour), and within hours, got a fever and abscessed tooth. Now my face is blown up on that side. My fault for straying from the doctor’s suggestion.
I did find something that I will look into more: Cure Tooth Decay: I’m not pitching this resource as I haven’t read the book yet, but the author suggests we’ve been misled all these years about proper tooth care and preventing cavities. He also sources Dr. Price on his site, and has a few suggestions too. Do a search “Cure Tooth Decay” and you’ll find it.
Now how to reduce this swelling of my cheek? Look like I have a jawbreaker candy in my mouth.
For about 6 years I fought infections in my wisdom teeth until I finally had them all removed. Here is how I did it.
1) Ibuprofen was the best for pain, it reduces swelling which is why the dentist will often suggest it. Several different doctors have told me (after dental and surgical procedures) that 800 mg every 4 hours is the max to use (for adults). It rarely took that much for me, 400 mg used to do the trick most of the time. If you have a prescribed pain medication that you are using, alternate it with the Ibuprofen for the best result. When I finally did go in, I was prescribed Tylenol 3 with Codeine and told to rotate the two every 4 hours. This really is helpful if you have to stay functional for work or kids, etc.
A topical treatment to use that doesn’t cost much is Red Cross Toothache Complete Medication Kit. It comes with a small bottle of eugenol (clove oil), tiny cotton balls, and tweezers. You simply soak the cotton ball and apply. Be careful, it burns and numbs well. Try a small bit to test it out. It will numb anything it touches so don’t let it drip into your mouth anymore than you have to. This works great for simple tooth aches too.
2) Don’t touch sugar of any kind or allow food anywhere near the abscessed tooth, drink only water. Rinse your mouth after you put anything in your mouth besides water. Anything left in there will agrivate the area and make pain worse. Do not suck on straws or chew anything hard because this too aggrivates the situation.
3) Salt water rinses are a great help. The salt will draw the infection to the surface. Get the water as warm as you can handle it and dissolve a tsp of salt at a time into the water until the salt added won’t dissolve any longer. Take your Ibuprofen or pain medicine about 20-30 minutes before you rinse. This will minimize the pain you feel once the salt reaches under the tooth. Rinse with the salt water focusing on the infected area. I would also tilt my head and the allow the salty water to submerge the area for as long as I could take it. Don’t swallow any more than you have to or you will get sick. If you get nauseated doing this, alternate rinsing with salt water and plain warm water to clear the tungue a bit in between. Don’t rinse your mouth for more than a few minutes at a time because you’ll have to rinse quite a bit and over time it will make your mouth very raw and sore. You’ll probably have terrible pain and feel the area drawing up after you rinse, but this will pass after about 20 minutes. No matter how bad it hurts, don’t press the area or you’ll push the infection back and deeper and defeat the purpose of the salt water rinse.
4) HEAT is your friend. In between rinses, put a heating pad on high and lay the heating pad on the area. Try and keep it on top of the infected area only. You want to draw it out as close to the infected area as possible. The infection will come to the heat, so be sure to not have the heat close to your ear or eyes. Also, don’t lay on the pad…lay the pad on the area (pad facing up). If you can prop yourself up on a couch or lounge chair, this is best. Lying down always caused serious throbbing, where sitting up eased the pain. Usually after a few rinses, a good dose of Ibuprofen, and propping myself up on the couch, I could get about 4 hours sleep at a time (waking only to take more Ibuprofen) and by the next morning would find it had drained.
5) If these things are working your infected area will go from wide, swollen, and deep red to almost a perfect ball over the tooth. It will be red, but the area around will appear less red than before. You may see a dark purple area on the ball and then a white head, this is good. Keep the heat going and soon it will give and drain. If you notice when the drainage starts, do plain warm water rinses. Try to spit as much of it out as possible because the drainage will make you sick to the stomach. If it drains while you’re sleeping, eat a non greasy absorbant food like toast to help calm your stomach.
6) For the next few days after the drainage starts, keep the mouth clean with plain water rinses and mouthwash if you can take it. If the drainage is bad, you may want to gauze the area to catch it, but change them often. You can still use salt rinses, but it hurts and really isn’t needed. After a few days, it should heal over and then just keep the mouth clean as usual.
7) If these things don’t help after 24-48 hrs…get to a dentist. You should at least see the infection bunched up in a somewhat uniformed knot. Once I finally went it I had to go through 2 rounds of antibiotics because the infection just didn’t want to come out of there. The dentist I found was Christian so a portion of his work was charitable. He only x-rayed the tooth in question to keep costs down. He often did free work, payment plans, and was cheaper hands down than anyone I had ever talked to. Don’t be scared to call and ask if they do any dental work for free or know of those who do. They can often point you in the right direction if their office doesn’t do that kind of work. Keep in mind that a dentist who donates his time to the poor usually opens his practice in poorer areas to be closer to the people who need his free services. Just because a practice may be located in a poorer part of town does not mean the quality of the dentist is poorer. Mine is in an area that has yet to be incorporated and his patients either don’t have jobs or make less than $25,000 a yr….but he is gentle, kind, has built a brand new office, and makes a good living because he bypasses insurance and simply charges a reasonable fee and allows flexibility in payments so even the lower income families in that area can afford to pay for his services.
Hello I wanted to say that your advice was the best I have seen,
Thank you so much
Ahhh i have an abses right now for the first 3 days it pained n pained i went to my local gp. whom game me antibiodics. i then ended up in ER later that night seen as tho i cudnt handle the pain, so they gave me panaden forte and believe it or not even that didnt work. i then went back to my doctor the next day whom gave me stronger pain killers and another antibiodic so i wud be takin 2 diff types to knock it on the head faster. by the next moring whne i woke up my hole left side of my face was extra large, so i decided to go back to the doctor he then sent me to the dentist. whom i thought wud have drained it but he look n told me to leave it n it wud pop on its own. n it still hasnt i want it gone i try the tea bag thing n it didnt work it have bleed 3 times but not a yucky taste n no puss is this thing guna pop
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I have an abcess but the pus isnt beside the tooth, its under my jaw bone and moving to my cheek. Ive been on antibs going on the third day but it just seems to be getting worse. Im trying the tea bag again and it does take the pain to a low but its not pulling the infection up. My tooth feels like its gonna explode. There is so much preassure on it. IS there anything else that might help pull the infection out?
hello…… im new to this, but not the pain in my mouth. i have a job and have always had one. right now i have basic insurance and no dental. i work 50 hours a week, and with this blinding pain. i am mortified to find that i can go to the pet store and buy 250 mg of tetracycline tablets. 24 of them for 11.99. i have read that this is common knowledge to branches of the military. i worked in the records dept of a hospital for 6 years. i had full medical coverage and dental and had both of my children at this hospital. i also worked for private physicians and had to deal with the drug reps. coming and wanting time with the doctor to push their new meds and give free samples. in all these years. with all the suffering i have seen first hand. people scraping up the money to come through the e.r. or come to the doctors office only to find that the script they were given will cost 100.00 or more. i was trying to find an online doctor to prescribe me something for my absess but instead i found articles about the fish antibiotics. i started my script 24 hours ago. 250 mg. 3 times a day. the burning in my jaw has receeded to where i can speak to my children. the pain is no longer running up the side of my head. the swelling is starting to go down on the side of the roof of my mouth. i was stricken with terror at the thought of going to the hospital and the size of the bill. i am feeling better but disgusted with out system that allows such suffering. where is the compassion in this great country of ours.
Thank you for the advice, will try it asap but as a side note I’d like to point out that not all abscesses are our own fault. I’m frantically searching right now on behalf of my girlfriend who had perfect teeth until she developed leukemia and had to go on chemotherapy. Her teeth are rotting away and abscessing through no fault of her own which is confirmed by her dentist and all that can be done is to pull them all, which we cannot afford. I also get abscesses from time to time despite my brushing after each meal and mouthwashes ect. Mine are due to wisdom teeth that have been coming through since I was in my late teens. My girlfriend feels wretched enough, if she had read that admonishment she’d have been very upset, though her doctors and dentist have both told her she takes great care of her teeth and it is the fault of chemotherapy. She thinks she looks ugly and that anyone looking at her will think that she doesn’t take care of herself and it’s very distressing for her.
I dont know what kind of people u are but to me some of you aint nice…I came here lookin for help and all i got was a bunch of immature adults fighting over something stupid… next time u wanta fight plz dont do it where everyone can read it..
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The other day, out of the blue with no symptoms, I had a small bump pop up on my gum. I searched the net and found that this was an abscess. Went to the dentist and was told that this was a result of a failed crown. I was put on antibiotics and pain meds. I wanted to get well fast so looked up “home remedies” one not to try is salt and baking soda put on a cotton ball and placed in between the abscess and gum. After 10 minutes I could not stand the pain anymore and the solution I used burned my mouth.
If I was to ever try a “home remedy” again it might be a tea bag, not something that made me worse Rinsing with warm salt water also helps.
Most of the sites I have tried says this is a result of poor dental hygiene and that is simply not true. Not every abscess is the result of poor dental hygiene, it wrong to blame the victim. For people who don’t have insurance I do not know how you do it. The cost is so excessive if you do not have insurance. i.e. if you have insurance (any kind) the dentist charges you a lower fee as it has been agreed upon between the insurance and the dentist. If you have no insurance they charge 3 times as much. Does that make sense? I have insurance and can barely afford the costs so for people who have none I can feel your pain.
LISTERINE!!! believe me!!!swish with Listerine several times a day in the affected area. I had an absess 4 months ago, after seeing a dentist, and given antibotics, I was told I would need another root canal on this tooth, then told the tooth needed to be pulled, I have been using Listerine twice a day and still have the tooth and no second root canal !!! Started hurting a bit last night though and I got worried, so I swished with Cool Mint Listerine several times before bed, and its pain free this morning!!!
i got an abcess at the moment, before usually sage mixed in boilt water reduces the pain and cleans your teeth, or teabags, they do the same but turn your teeth yellow. other than that, constantly brush your teeth first time i had an abcess i had it for 2 months, 2nd time a few days cause i knew what to do
taking better care? some parents never bother to teach their children to do this properly cuz it wasnt taught to them….
My abscess stopped hurting while I was reading the trivial and childish bickering in this thread!
I have suffered with a recurring abscess that drains through my face when it flares up. Fortunate to live in UK some Dentist, Doctors and antibiotics are free or subsidised. I have finally had the tooth removed (cost £30) and apart from a slowly repairing indentation in my face where the drain site was am at last pain free. |When it did flare up I found the best relief was clove oil and hot salt water rinses. Tried the Tea bag method but it made me gag, also got some relief with chlorohex in dental mouthwash or find a throat lozenge like strepsil that contains it and let that melt on the tooth over an hour or so. Most of all get help and proper antibiotics as soon as possible. Hopefully you will all soon have a basic health service entitlement like us – we pay for choice, for frills, for non vitals but it’s a real relief to be able to get the basics when you need it for you and your family when you need it.
My sympathies for all of you in pain – I hope some of my methods help.
To the arrogant ignorant people that are saying you should have taken care of your teeth. To those uneducated people I say this = For your information there are diseases out there that require certain medications that can hurt teeth no matter how hard you take care of them. There are also people on fixed incomes that simply can not afford dental insurance requiring them to pay the overblown prices that dentists are charging. YES OVERBLOWN. Dentist went into the business for one reason and that is to get rich quick, not to help people who need it. Do I think something should be done about this YES. People are out there suffering because of these situations and there is no one there to help them. There is something wrong with the whole medical field and they should be ashamed of themselves.
people stop worrying about dental insurance and look for dental plans! Go for the ones that you pay an annual fee and get discounted services. Find one that offers cheap or free xrays / oral exam and use that. Then go for a full mouth debridement if you have too, (maybe you can skip that) then go for the deep cleaning per quandrant. By the time you are done you will have paid about $100 for the dental plan (which u can use immediately) $0-20 for the xrays/exam, $70 for the debridement and $100 per deep cleaning quadrant. (About $570) BUT all u need is the dental plan payment upfront, when u go get the quadrants try to get one done at a time, the side that hurts the worse. I know u dont have the money, me neither but make a plan and put the money aside, dont watch cable for a month or turn off ur cell, ur teeth will thank u for it. hope u all feel better
First and most important, a few months ago, my son’s buddy, age 25, died because he didn’t want to go to the dentist to have an abscess taken care of. This is no joke, the “poison” produced by the abscess killed him.
If you have an abscessed tooth, get medical treatment whether you hate dentists or not.
Lastly, my daddy taught me as I was growing up that life isn’t fair, and when I complained, he told me to get over it. He said that anybody who thinks that because they work hard, they should get the same benefits that everybody else has is just asking for misery as they will never ever be satisfied with anything. It doesn’t matter whether we like it or not, this is the way life works. I’m not one of the advantaged, and I have had some really tough knocks in my life. I got laid off after working 60 hrs a week at my job (got paid for 40), then 8 months later, found out I had a brain tumor. Know what I say about that? Life isn’t fair, so what. I’m doing the best I can and I’m going to keep a good attitude.
Two years ago I had a horrible abscessed tooth. I put an herbal tea bag on the affected area for several hours and it was completely gone. (Avoided a root canal and crown, which they said had to be done immediately). Another one cropped up a couple of days ago. I used the herbal tea bag and got the same results. This really works.
I am a dentist in the Philadelphia area. I work by myself in a small office in my house. My overhead is low so I can charge lower fees. I see one patient at a time and I do it all. Also I don’t own a boat. In fact, I drive a 10-year-old Hyundai Elantra. The reason is that I treat people that the “big boys” don’t want in their practices. Naturally I prefer to provide the best treatment possible, but I will figure out less than ideal treatments to solve people’s problems for less–I think outside the box. I’m not saying all this to brag–just to let you know that if you look you can find other dentists like me.
Also, and I know you won’t want to hear this, dental disease (decay, periodontitis, etc) is the result of eating carbs. Whether you brush and floss or not, the bacteria in your mouth will use the carbs for food and the resulting acid waste will cause damage. Consuming carbs depresses your immune system, making you more susceptible to infection and disease. If you think vegetarianism or veganism is the answer to good health, I can tell you I have several as patients–they eat only organic whole grains, vegetables, legumes and fruits–no junk–and their teeth rot faster than I can fix them. I, myself, ate Macrobiotic many years ago and it was during that time that I suffered a dental abscess.
im gonna die
i think i have an abscess on the left side of my lower jaw, after reading the top i wanna pop it, but im scared it will spread. gonna call the dentist tomoro and see what the douchebag says!
I currently have an abcess in the lower left of my mouth, had it for about a week now.Its bloody sore and beginning to piss me off. A friendly bit of advice to all who have one, Get your ass to a dentist (dont moan about money, theres always a way of finding it when it feels like you`ve been smacked in the mouth with a cricket ball). Get the antbiotics, rince your mouth out with salt water after every time u eat and take pain killers. Then back to the dentist and have the bastard tooth pulled out. Failing that you could end up like Danielles friend ( see above). It happened to a friend of mine but luckly he survived, it popped while he was sleeping, his mother found him unconsous, rushed to hospital. Another half hour and docs said he would have been dead.
No matter how much u hate then the dentist could be saving your life !!!!!!!!!!!!
Is anybody else miffed that the info on absesses says that its always down to bad dental hygeine!? Well I certainly am! I look after my teeth really well. I have a stupidly small mouth and a Wisdom tooth coming through despite having no room! Its not got to the point where I have a big flap of cheek hanging over it, keep biting it because its in the way! Have tried desperately to keep the wisdom tooth clean but my mouth is so small my toothbrush doesnt fit back there!
Now its all infected and horrible
I feel sad for the people on here who are struggling to get dental care. I live in England and although we have to pay some towards our dental treatments its never more than a couple of hundred pounds even if you are having lots of work done. Most of the time its under £50. And for people on low incomes its free.
Its a real sad thing that in America (is that where you are?) care proffessionals look for your wallet before you heartbeat
I went to the dentist for the first time in 16 years on friday. I have a chipped molar that I have been ignoring for a couple months because it didn’t hurt and I didn’t have insurance. Got insurance the first of the year but didn’t want to rush right off because I heard sometimes you have to wait a couple months for them to cover expensive things. The dentist told me my molar was absessed (that explains the ear ache I’ve had the past couple weeks) and I would eithor need to get it extracted or have a root canal. He also told me two of my wisdom teeth need pulled (makes sence, they’ve bothered me for years) and I do have some cavities but he said he wasn’t to worried about them at this point because the other stuff was in need of some quicker action. I was happy with everything until I got to the lady that helps set up payments and appointments to have all this work done. She was very pushy and a bit rude. My insurance only covers $1000 a year and the second I sat down she wanted me to do this this and this. She of course suggested I get the root canal because I wouldn’t want to be missing a tooth. Which leads me to my first question. Is anyone on here missing a back molar and does it really cause a problem? It is the second to last one. I don’t think it really would but I like to ask for other peoples advise. She also wanted to put me down for fillings but I’m not sure why. I know the dentist said he wasn’t worried about the cavities and to my knowledge that is the only thing you need fillings for. She told me I have to come in for two cleanings before I can have any work done but I’ve never heard of that. Has anyone else? I am also confused about the absess. From reading the coments on here it sounds I should have a puss bubble of some type and I feel none. Is that possible? I know my tooth has been hurting and like I said I’ve had an ear ache that the dentist said could very well be because of it. I went to the doctor two weeks ago after having the ear ache for two weeks already and he said my ear wasn’t infected. So, when the dentist said this I thought it was logical. Anyhow, I left the dentists almost in tears because I was so confused and just not sure what to do so I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks
To Sweibel – years ago I had the next to the last top molar pulled because of abcess and severe pain. I could not afford a root canal, and they said that pulling the tooth would cause your teeth to “float” and start drifting apart to fill the gap left by the pulled molar. It’s been about 15 years since, and I’ve only experienced minor movements in my teeth. I know this post is probably too late for you now, but maybe it will help someone else.
Also, the “lady’ that they have you talk to regarding payment and appointments is a salesman and that’s what they’re paid to do. Don’t let them strong arm you into anything you are uncomfortable with or cannot afford. It’s your teeth and your money, tell them what you are comfortable with all the way around and stick to it. If they are not accomodating, go somewhere else if you can. My only other comment on this subject is to call around and price services if you can. You are not obligated to have any work done by the dentist that you’ve just seen.
Thanks to everyone else who have posted help and remedies for those of us who cannot afford to go to the dentist, or are just seeking help now.
From uk, i am jobless atm, and i get free care for my ab phew!!!
toothache is the worst pain ever, had an abscess a year ago under a filling and ended up scrapin the filling out with scissors to relieve the pain and get rid of the pressure
.. a couple of weeks ago the exact same pain returned in another tooth which had a filling because my little cousin smacked a french bowl off my tooth .. (not through lack of care) ibuprofen & painkillers never helped at all, have been sitting with ice over the sore bit, it helped but got annoying so came in search of remedies .. have swirled salty water and now sitting with a teabag over it .. pain is just a tingle now! dentist on monday ..
try keeping a clove of garlic in the mouth all the time … even at night if possible
I think denise is the most Unconsiderate selfish bitch ever!!! She doesn’t understand others! But karma will get you when you need someone to understand your situations, guess what no one will. And keep thinking you’re so up high in the sky bitch bcuz it won’t last long!! After being up high the only thing to happen next is your ass hitting rock bottom keep it in mind before opening your mouth to talk shit! And never spit up bcuz it will land back right on your bitch ass face!!
U can take some warm water mix it with table salt and put it ur mouth and shake it around n ur mouth and spit it out do that a few days or a few hours off and on and it will pop
Like a few people on here, I was searching the internet for help to relieve pain due to an abcessin my lower jaw…. I started reading some comments, and it started to make me thankful for the UK’s national health service, and we even complain about that, but atleast in this country, if you are in pain, either dental or other, you get treatment straight away, and the money is always sorted later…. and when I say money, the cost is no where near as much as some people talk about on here (unless you go private), but through the NHS here, the cost is always reduced, if your unemployed or on financial benifits, your dental costs and treatments are free….
So although over here in England we complain about our NHS services, they do a dam good job, and provide an excellent service to so many sick and needy people.
P.S. my abcess… phoned my doctor and was seen within 2hrs prescribed antibiotics… phoned dentist was seen same day, advised to take antibiotics for 2 more days, then return to have abcess drained and tooth sorted…. all this will cost me nothing, as I am currently unemployed, but there again, I’m not going to complain about paying national insurance @ about £2 per week again when I get my new job.
the problem that i have is because i had a root canal done 34 years ago and the root canal has split open and there is an infection in there. if i lose that tooth then i will have no teeth left on the topside of my mouth as i do brush my teeth 4 times a day, i was blessed to get my dad’s bad teeth!
First of all what I find is that most dentists are a money grabbing shower of inconsiderate loafers.
Augementim Duo Anti-biotic tablets and wash with salty water is the only cure that i find works in the short term but it is only putting off the inevitable trip to the dentist for the dreaded root canal or extraction.
I know your pain people and its worse than most people think.
i have just used an old remedy, and it has worked for me, for an abcess on my tooth and the roof ( inside ) of my mouth, take 1/4 teaspoon of olive oil ( i used sesame as i didnt have any olive ) 3 or 4 drops of clove oil, put on a cotton ball, and put in your mouth over the abcess, keep there as long as possible – DO NOT GO TO SLEEP!!!!!!!!!, i did this and had the ball in place for 4 hours and the swelling has gone down to 1/4 the size it was – i hope it works for you too.
i am going to do the same again tonight and see if it goes completly :O)
I do not think there is anything wrong with a person making money no matter what the amount however I also undderstand that in this economy jobs are hard to come by and a-lot of jobs do not pay much. I think it was very wrong of some of you to down the people who cannot afford dental care. There are some things in life; that are just beyond people’s control. I am going to use myself as an example. One person said: “Work harder”. Well in response to that… I am on disability. Not by choice but because I was working and then health problems I had, got so bad that I could no longer work. My Doctors are the ones that kept telling me that I could not work anymore. I fought it non stop until I had to face the fact that they were right. So I cannot “Work Harder”. Now someone mentioned getting state healthcare or whatever it is called. Well being on disability I have medicare and medicaid however… they do not cover dental. I did not ask to be on disability, I had no choice but to be put on it With that in mind… it is not my fault that the medicare and medicaid they gave me do not cover medical or that disability pays me so little. I will not go into details about what health problem has me on disability or how much money disability gives me to live on each month but I will say that it is less than 800 dollars a month. Sometimes circumstances arise for people that are not within their control. It does not mean that those people are bad people, or that they are less than a person, or that they are users or anything else negative like that. With that in mind.. where does it give the rest of you the right to look down on us or to talk to us or about us in a negative manner? Most people I know do not expect anything for free, but what is wrong with people helping other people no matter how much money they make? If someone makes enough money to own multiple houses, buy new things such as a boat just because their old one is not the latest model or is not in style anymore… what would it hurt them to help someone less fortunate? That is the problem these days. Too many people do not care about others anymore and too many people are selfish and self centered. If you want judge us for being less fortunate than you, then why don’t you keep your mouth shut while we judge you for being so uncaring and so self centered. I would much rather be judged for things that I cannot control such as my health keeping me from working, then to be judged for things I can control such as being uncaring and self centered; but hey, that’s just me. High five to those of you who are doing all you can to survive in this world, but even more power to those who are doing all they can to survive in this world while still caring about other people other than theirselves.
So incredibly tragic that children die in this country from a lack of funds to fix abcessed teeth while dentists and politicians sail around the world in their oceanliners.
i’m a dental assistant, i have 5 yrs experience. I have seen and delt with MANY abscess. they can be caused by many things; but basically bacteria has entered the tooth wether it is through a cavity,fracture or from the gums due to periodontal dissease. I agree cloves are a good way to sooth they have many benefits and alot of dental products contain cloves to soothe the nerve. This however will NOT CURE the absess it is a temp relief. Anti-biotics should be prescribed even if just by a doctor.
just remember even if you feel better there still might