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Post by spindrift on Feb 5, 2009 15:07:57 GMT
One of my fillings has fallen out and I'm suffering gradually increasing pain. My gum is throbbing.
Has anyone advice? I'm waiting for my dentist to call back but she won't be able to see me until next week.
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Post by happytraveller on Feb 5, 2009 15:13:04 GMT
Ring up a dentist who's on emergency duty. Otherwise you probably have to get some pain killers. Toothache sucks ! Big time ! Good luck...
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 5, 2009 16:30:16 GMT
I assume that in the UK you cannot get antibiotics without a prescription & I have about the same amount of medical training as my dog. (however clindamicina, or however it's spelled in English, works for oral stuff)
In the meantime, get some vodka & hold it in your mouth where the pain is as long as you can, then spit it out. It will go a long way towards deadening the pain. Try hydrogen peroxide, too, but the liquor kills the pain better.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 5, 2009 17:25:24 GMT
My orthopaedic friend agrees with the pain-dulling effects of vodka....I'll try it!
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Post by welle on Feb 5, 2009 18:19:40 GMT
Clover oil on the injured area on the gums Cover the hole in the tooth where the filling fell out-they have dental kits if you want to get fancy. It's just so the air does not hit the hole. A (well used) piece of non-sugar chewing gum can also work. Pain killers Next week is a ways away-I'd consider seeing another dentist if they can't work you in.
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Post by welle on Feb 5, 2009 18:19:58 GMT
Oh, and hope you feel better of course!
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Post by spindrift on Feb 5, 2009 18:56:47 GMT
Thanks Welle. I'd need a friend to plug the hole in the tooth.
I didn't know it is the air that hurts it ...
I'll put up with the pain until I can see my dentist...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 19:17:09 GMT
I did not go to a dentist from 1969 until 1997. When I went to a dentist in 1969 and the filling fell out after two months, it pissed me off but caused no pain. I spent the next 28 years digging food fragments out of the hole with my tongue.
I went to the dentist for another reason in 1997 and had all problems fixed, but they were amazed at the quality of my teeth when I admitted the date of my last visit. I was not amazed because when my grandmother died at the age of 94, she still had perfect teeth.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 5, 2009 19:26:48 GMT
Ahhhhh... I am so jealous.
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Post by jongleur on Feb 5, 2009 19:33:04 GMT
I'd need a friend to plug the hole in the tooth. Then you've either got very slim friends, or very fat teeth. But seriously - hope you get it fixed soon. If it's too painful, go to your hospital's A&E - it's possible there's an abcess or other infection in there, in which case you'll need to get it cleared up with penicillin before the dentist can even touch it. BTW - it's clove oil welle meant. I think she just mis-hit a key and added the extra 'r'.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 5, 2009 21:07:27 GMT
thanks goldie. good joke that!
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Post by welle on Feb 5, 2009 22:05:10 GMT
clove oil indeed, not clover
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Post by spindrift on Feb 5, 2009 22:39:14 GMT
Welle - I knew what you meant
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Post by palesa on Feb 6, 2009 8:15:25 GMT
How is it feeling today?
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Post by spindrift on Feb 6, 2009 9:40:36 GMT
It's very strange but I have no pain today, only slight throbbing... I won't go to a national health dentist..I don't trust them...I'll wait to see my dentist. I hope she isn't in the States; her husband lives there.
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Post by Aussielover on Feb 7, 2009 10:42:32 GMT
spindrift, ask your pharmacist about dental wax. It temporarily will fill the hole until you can get to see your dentist. (You just soften it up and press it into the hole.)
My sympathies! I'm up for a $3K bill in order to treat an infection in my jaw. Right now, my wallet hurts more than my tooth!
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Post by spindrift on Feb 8, 2009 10:06:18 GMT
Aussie...thanks for the tip. I'll do that. I won't be seeing my dentist until next Thursday. I'm apprehensive that a new crown might be affected in which case I might have to lose the tooth and have an implant!
I am sorry to hear about your jaw infection which must be uncomfortable and disturbing. What treatment are you having?
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Post by palesa on Feb 8, 2009 10:14:31 GMT
Spindrift, how is your toothache feeling?
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Post by spindrift on Feb 8, 2009 20:23:07 GMT
Thanks for asking....it's not too bad. I'm sure I can bear the discomfort until early Thursday morning....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2009 20:12:37 GMT
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Post by spindrift on Feb 10, 2009 23:10:49 GMT
Yes, it's true. My stonemason pulls his teeth out with a pliers.
I don't go to a National Health dentist. Even if I wanted to I couldn't find one to accept me. Here is a story about my Japanese gf who has periodontal disease and has lost nearly all of her teeth. It transpires that over many years her NH dentist only cleaned and scraped her front teeth, never her back teeth (apparently this is NH policy). She didn't realise this (I don't know why she didn't because you can feel what a dentist/hygienist is doing)...so now all her back teeth have fallen out or had to be extracted and her front teeth are going the same sad way. I sent her to a orthodontist. The fee for an hour was so high that she never went back. Now she'll have to have dentures. Terrible isn't it?
I have found that even if you pay private dental fees it is next to impossible to find a good dentist. I don't know where they all are (if they exist) but they're probably in London!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2009 6:12:30 GMT
When I finally had to go to the dentist for the first time in 28 years, I had a stroke of genius (and a stroke of luck) and signed up at the Paris dental school. I had to wait more than two months for the first appointment (many people wait 6 months), but then everything was taken care of by a 7th year dental student under the supervision each time of several professors (they did not usually hover while he was working but came to check what he had done at the end of the session). Anyway, I had two root canals and two crowns, plus the replacement of a very old filling and of course a complete cleaning. I paid for absolutely nothing except the crown, which were reimbursed 100% by my office mutual, being much less costly than crowns made by private dentists.
I have needed to go back twice over the years (loose crown), but now I do not even have to make an appointment and I go ahead of most other people since I am in their data base.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 12, 2009 16:47:58 GMT
K - you ARE so lucky.
My dentist is now sending me to specialists to see if I need an implant. What I dread most about this (apart from the money to pay for it) is having my tooth pulled out.
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Post by Aussielover on Feb 18, 2009 0:34:28 GMT
Ack, spindrift - my sympathies!
My treatment consists of oral antibiotics, plus a root canal, debridement, and antibiotics packed in the tooth. I have to do this over the course of a couple of months, after which I will probably wind up with a crown (which I really don't want, but by then, the tooth will probably be too weak not to have one.)
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