There's a big hole in one of my tooth... what do I do? | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 14992014 United States 05/27/2015 01:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Swish with salt water every chance you get. Pick up some orthodontic wax from the pharmacy for under $5. It's by the toothbrushes. It's easier to work with and has no taste compared to the dental cement for caps. After you brush and rinse with salt water, break off a little piece of wax and plug the hole in the tooth with it. It will keep the air out of it and keep it from hurting. You might have to replace it after you eat or drink something hot but it's cheap and easy to do. Swish with saltwater before packing the tooth again. Make sure you pull the wax out and brush and rinse with saltwater a few times a day and repack it. Teeth can repair themselves as long as it's still alive. If it hurts, it's still alive. The salt water helps prevent infection and stimulates growth. I've also heard and experienced good results pointing a cheap laser pointer at the tooth. You can get one at the dollar store or for a few bucks in the pet food aisle with the cat toys. It stimulates growth and is very similar to the expensive lasers dentists use for the same purpose in some offices. If the pain is a problem, dab clove oil on the hole or add a few drops to water and swish with that before packing the hole with dental wax. You can usually find that in the dental aisle too. If your cheek gets swollen or you can tell it's really infected, you probably need to get to a doctor to get antibiotics. An oral surgeon may be willing to pull the tooth cheaper than the dentist without a hard sell for fillings or a root canal. Also check out dental schools in your area. They may fill or pull for free. I'd avoid root canals. They are expensive and require expensive capping that has to be replaced every few years and there's a lot of data that shows root canals can cause other problems later. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 68798937 United States 05/27/2015 02:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do not ignore you teeth. You can always make money later on. But if you loose the tooth, or Teeth, they’re gone. I just spent over 80,000 (yes, 80 thousand dollars) on dental implants to replace missing, rotten teeth. I too didn’t have the money earlier in life to take proper care of my teeth and I had really lousy teeth to begin with. Neglect and gum disease and I had lost over half of my original teeth by the time I was 30. Now I’m in my 50’s and the money isn’t a problem any longer. But fixing what I neglected is costly. If you live near a dental college or school of dentistry, they all have lower prices and / or the procedures are performed by dentists who are good enough to be called to teach others their profession. Some dental schools offer free clinics to those who really have no money. A friend underwent cancer surgery and lost about half of her lower jaw and teeth. The dental college in our area did over $240,000 worth of dental surgery and restoration on her for a few hundred dollars. She looks great and is now free of cancer for over five years, too. But she went thru hell getting her face and jaw rebuilt. |
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Just Trina User ID: 68786261 United States 05/27/2015 02:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You can regrow your teeth AND heal cavities with comfrey root and organic egg shells. Your eggs must be organic and you must boil the shell for 5 min to kill any pathogens in the membrane. Then crush up the eggshell and blend 1 a day in a smoothie with any flavor and add a banana , it will suspend the eggshell making it very easy to drink. Use only organic comfrey ROOT and boil it in about 2 cups of water for around 8-10 min...let it cool, strain and put in a glass jar . Use it every night before bed and swish in your mouth for 20 min. Once your cavity is healed stop using the comfrey as it can be hard on your kidneys/liver. Be sure to eat a diet high in organ fat, soups with bone marrow . I also highly recommend the product by green pasture called " Blue Ice Royal" Butter oil mixed with cod liver oil. ( capsules).They also make this in cinnamon and some other flavor but I take the regular capsules for the butter oil. Great stuff. There is a book you can buy that tells how to heal your cavities naturally I forget the name of it but a friend of mine bought it and she did heal her cavity in about 3 months.maybe it was less but somewhere in that time frame. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 109229 United States 02/06/2016 12:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP........figure out how to get it filled......or else it will continue to decay and then get infected......then you'll have to get it pulled. All that is going to be way more painful and expensive then just finding the money to get the stupid cavity filled. Call around and see if you can find a low cost dental clinic in your area......or sell something you have to get the money.......or get some part time work to pay for it, anything, just get it done. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 71369385 United States 02/06/2016 12:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | As long as the root is alive you can regrow a new tooth. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1103018 Don't let the dentists kill the root. Google regrow teeth. There's an ultrasonic solution somewhere I forget the site. for the helluvit i will have a look. i can not understansd why the hell the tooth cannot repair itself either. if broken bones "knit" themselves together,what gives w/these little bastard teeth ? |