Are you a 4000 year old mummy??
That damn things seen some stuff!!!
I woulda pulled that just to get it out of you!!
Toothache Remedy Sought
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That damn things seen some stuff!!!
I woulda pulled that just to get it out of you!!
Glad to hear the extraction went well. Sometimes those back molars can fall apart and be difficult to get out. Now you just have to lay off the pipes for a few days to avoid getting dry socket.
Old jail trick, inmates with a toothache and having to wait on a dentist will hold ice water on the tooth. I know, I know, that sounds like the absolute last thing you’d want to do. I have tried it and it works. Yes the initial shock may be severe but it passes quickly and the pain is gone. It’s short lived and has to be repeated but when all else fails and the dentist is hours away it will get you through the night. No, I wasn’t an inmate but have spent much time around them.
I'm right there with you.
A few years ago I had to have two wisdom teeth removed and was thrilled to learn that my oral surgeon offered conscious sedation (at the time she used Versed, administered via IV). All that I recall is her telling me that I would soon be getting VERY sleepy. The next thing I recall is her telling me that she was all done.
My wife drove us home, and said that I wanted to stop and get a donut. She declined and put me to bed instead
.Ask your dentist if this is an option for you. As Pipestud is wont to say, "You can thank me later!"
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Well, if it ever happens again, I found that bourbon didn't do the trick when I had toothaches - and I had an abscess - to tide me over while I waited for the dentist. I went with Bacardi 151. That abscess was killed by the 151, and the pain was gone. But now I've got implants and don't have to worry about that anymore
I'll definitely see of I can get it.I'm right there with you.
A few years ago I had to have two wisdom teeth removed and was thrilled to learn that my oral surgeon offered conscious sedation (at the time she used Versed, administered via IV). All that I recall is her telling me that I would soon be getting VERY sleepy. The next thing I recall is her telling me that she was all done.
My wife drove us home, and said that I wanted to stop and get a donut. She declined and put me to bed instead
Ask your dentist if this is an option for you. As Pipestud is wont to say, "You can thank me later!"
I got my far left bottom tooth pulled a decade ago, initial chewing adjustments had to be made, but other than that its life as usual.It’s on the far left bottom.
I’ll wait for the rest of them to go bad.
I suggest keeping Oragel around, along with one of those temporary filling repair kits you get at drugstores. Especially useful to carry when traveling, and don't take up much room.
I found than an Excedrin with a Naproxen, is much better than either alone. I mean , better than rx meds even.
Agreed! Excedrin on its own is also very effective, as long as you’re not washing it down with booze. Not that I’ve done that back in the day…
A modern dental office has a zillion times better X Ray machines than even a few years ago.
And I really don’t know how they live well.
In my best years I kept two or three sharp, good looking assistants and that dentist had five, all young, efficient, and his wife had to have hired them all.
His monthly payroll has to be astronomical.
And an exam was $100, X rays $104 and extraction $225.
Nobody ever pays him thousands. He earns it by the little hundreds.
And all he ever sees are people with teeth problems.
And I really don’t know how they live well.
In my best years I kept two or three sharp, good looking assistants and that dentist had five, all young, efficient, and his wife had to have hired them all.
His monthly payroll has to be astronomical.
And an exam was $100, X rays $104 and extraction $225.
Nobody ever pays him thousands. He earns it by the little hundreds.
And all he ever sees are people with teeth problems.
Clove oil as many have said. Oragel is good too. The main thing is you are seeing a dentist. If it is swelled it likely is infected. When I worked in Johnson City Tennessee at a dentist office it was common for people to go to the emergency room, get antibiotics' have the swelling and pain go away but then not see a dentist. Within a short time the infection would re emerge and they would go back to the emergency room. The problem doesn't go away until the dentist fixes the cause.About thirty years ago my now retired dentist put an enormous filling in my upper left molar and said he couldn’t guarantee how long it would last.
It hurts like a toothache this morning.
I have an appointment with a new dentist at two this afternoon, to see if they can pull it or if I’ll have to have antibiotics first to get the swelling down.
I have a bottle of good bourbon but I don’t want the dentist to think I’m a drunk.
Any other good home remedies for a toothache?
It’s not so bad I can’t smoke.
In 1983 I graduated law school and began the practice of law and by 1985 I had my own office with two full time assistants, and my left lower wisdom tooth (beside the nasty one I just had pulled) came in, and it was sore.
One of the recurring sermons I heard as a youth was Jesus was so perfect, he had all of his teeth and not one cavity. That infected wisdom tooth reminded me, that I was far, far from perfection.
My good friend and hunting buddy Dr Clayton Johnson was a local dentist and my front office secretary called his assistant and scheduled me an appointment, and I went.
He looked at me and said, I can pull both your upper wisdom teeth this afternoon but the two lower ones, require an oral surgeon. The roots were wrapped around the jaw bone. The sore lower one had infection and needed a course of antibiotics.
I replied I was a lawyer, I had a full book of clients and court appearances and my tooth hurt and I’d sign waivers,,,,I would pay bribes,,,oh God please Doc,,,,pull that wisdom tooth or else I’ll be ruined!
Doc said you and I’ll both regret it, but I’ll pull the top two and the one that hurts and my assistant will call yours and they’ll schedule you with an oral surgeon for your lower right one.
Doc numbed me up, and the top ones just popped out like the rotten one did yesterday—no problems.
I began to regret not taking his advice on the lower left one. Doc did too. It involved him jerking and twisting my jaw while his assistant and him looked down on me, and then finally my tooth popped out and Doc fell backwards with my tooth and his assistant had me spit in that little tray they used to have with water swirling the nastiest vile puss I could imagine.
They both looked at me and wondered how I was. I was fine I said. Doc prescribed me some strong painkillers and antibiotics and said go home, don’t go to the office, go home.
I paid my bill, it wasn’t much and said I don’t need the painkillers, I never even take aspirin.
She said are you sure, and I said I have a high pain tolerance, I’ll be fine.
I got the antibiotics and went home and two hours later called back and said remember how tough I said I was? Let’s forget I said that. Could I please have some morphine, heroin, oh my God I’m hurting bad!
She called the local pharmacy and my wife then went and got the pills, I forget now what.
My assistant canceled my appointments for a couple of days.
That evening, my wife who was involved in the local beauty pageants brought home the last year’s Miss Missouri to show off our house I suppose and I was so drugged up i remember thinking it was a good thing that girl was skinny, because she surely didn’t have a Miss Missouri grade face, but I didn’t say that to her Dad, you know.
For about a week, there was a nerve that went straight up my forehead left of my nose that was as cold as if I had an ice cream headache, but it went away.
I was glad to see the oral surgeon who took out the right one under anesthesia.
That fall, when Clayton and me were dove hunting (he actually ate doves) I asked him, what would have happened to me, if I’d lived two hundred years ago before dentists?
Doc said if you’d been born before antibiotics you might be in the graveyard today, or else an invalid.
Before dentists you’d have died for certain.
Clayton died young of brain cancer, and my first wife of an hereditary heart condition that also killed our son.
Too bad Clayton didn’t have an assistant take all those X rays, you know?
There was a reason for those lead shields the dentists used to all have.
Here’s to dentists. Like we lawyers, few people ever stop by the office just to say hi.
But without a dentist, who knows how many people died, when their wisdom teeth came in?
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My first wife’s grandfather pitched over dead going to get firewood at age 40 when her father was 9 years old.
Her father had four brothers and a sister, and we attended all their funerals when they died suddenly, all in their forties and fifties.
Her father lived to be 80, and his mother to be 90.
She died in her sleep at 56 and my son in his shower at 36.
My father lost all his teeth before he was forty and died of swallowing a chicken bone he didn’t know he’d swallowed, and malpractice I suppose.
My mother, her brother, and her mother and her sister all died of congestive heart failure in their middle eighties.
My mother’s father lived to be 92 and might be 145 today, if he’d let somebody clip his toenails besides his son. He got an ingrown toenail that turned gangrenous.
God surely might have a plan for each of us, and I’m sure He sees every sparrow when it falls.
Me, I get all my shots and wonder why humans didn’t all die of smallpox, diabetes, tuberculosis, tetanus and wisdom teeth coming in and infections and such, before modern medicine and dentists and penicillin.
There’s always that last bullet we can’t dodge, you know?