After having private treatment for gums, at the cost of £100 per session, as recommended by national health dentist, had to go to dentist with toothache, and had back tooth out yesterday. Dentist not very kind as said I should have gone back 6 months ago, anyway to cut a long story short he took it out and said no exercise, no tennis, no allotment, no alcohol. Anyway thought I would do some planting at home and lifted the bag of compost and it started bleeding, so went to bed with a plug on it and generally spent a miserable day thinking I was going to bleed to death. :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( Cheered up today as parcel arrived at 8.30 am and am pleased with what I got. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
My youngest daughter (now 32) became a cricket fan when she was about 14. As a special treat OH took her to Lords several years ago, she was in agony with a mouth ulcer. I had recently got some propolis. She used it over the weekend & it cleared up very quickly. My dentist told me he found it useful on burns.
gargling with salt water may help stop the bleeding, and chewing a clove may help stop the pain.....that's a clove of clove and not a clove of garlic
Don't take aspirin for the pain as it can prolong bleeding time.
Although they have said no alcohol, a little dwinkie for medicinal purposes can't hurt too much. Moderation in all things.
I feel your pain, I have just had some dental work done and thought that paying for it would be the most painful bit. If only.
I have a brilliant dentist. Last year I suffered a split tooth (molar), she looked at it, poked it around and said that it was quite solid in the jaw. She removed the loose bit (nearly half the tooth) and put some filler on the broken surface and said "No charge". It's still working OK.
^^ that is my story exactly. Broke off the back half of a molar, had a white filling covering the broken surface which lasted about 3 years but fell off eventually. Then decide to splash out on a crown rather than risk more tooth breaking off. I'm not sure it was the right decision as the tooth now seems HUGE compared to what I had got used to. And the drilling and stuff to make the remains of the tooth able to take a crown made my jaw ache for days. Have decided private treatment is a rip off and, wrt dentistry, less is definitely more.
Poor us :(
after a dental extraction if you have bleeding, do not use a mouthwash of any kind for the 1st 24 hours,as this will only wash away any clot that has formed and then will be open to a 'dry socket' v v painful. If you have bleeding bite hard on a rolled up handkerchief the pressure should stop the bleeding , as for pain relief the best is a nurofen of the like as it has an anti inflammatory effect. the hot salty mouthwas you can start 24 hours later this will then promote healing .
Thanks for that, it seems OK now. ;D ;D ;D