Toothache Remedies

Next to childbirth and passing a kidney stone a toothache is one of the most painful things anyone can experience.

Unless through blunt force trauma to the teeth, a toothache is not something that just happens over night but rather an accumulation of wear and tear and erosion of the teeth over time.

You barely notice this is all going on, inside your mouth millions of bacteria share your food and excrete it in the form of acids that de-mineralize your teeth, in fact it is by virtue of this process that tooth decay takes place, one day at a time. 

It’s not until you get that characteristic jolt of pain to the offending tooth or the slow torturous throbbing pain that never seems to subside.

There are factors at play when it comes to toothache:

You could suffer from tooth sensitivity and no this doesn’t involve your tooth getting in touch with its “feelings”, but rather the tooth’s increasing sensitivity to hot and cold liquids over time.  Sensitivity may just creep up on you until you’re suddenly more sensitive to the things you weren’t before.

Hypersensitivity is where your teeth are extremely reactive to hot and cold, in fact just cold drafts can set your teeth into a tail spin, even excess moisture can make them react.

Sensitivity comes from the erosion of the tooth’s protective enamel layer.  This happens over time as we chew our food.  Think of our chewing action like a bevel, each time we grind, we take off some of the minerals we need to keep the teeth strong.  The more we file down our teeth naturally through the action of eating , the more enamel we lose until it gets down close to the pulp.  Because the layer of enamel begins to thin there is less protection of the pulp, dentine and the nerve and because this layer thins, the more the nerve of the tooth feels the external elements of hot and cold, the more it reacts.

If you have a toothache the best cure is natural.  A good one is to place a clove of garlic on the affected tooth.  Garlic has healing and anesthetic properties which will not only kill the bacteria causing the infection but provide some much needed relief to the pained area.

For a long term solution, what you should really be aiming for is to repair the tooth.  Yes teeth can repair themselves because they are living entities with blood flow.  That’s what teeth are supposed to do naturally but it’s because of our poor diet and lifestyle that teeth are unable to do this as effectively as our ancestors would have.

If given time and with the right diet of calcium containing dairy foods, teeth should re-mineralize all on their own but it’s because of the highly refined sugary foods that continue to wear down the enamel they are never given a chance to do this effectively.

If you really want to prevent future tooth decay, rebuilding and strengthening your teeth is the key.