Help--Dental Infection...WWYD?

[Carnie]

Go to the ER stat. Severe mouth pain is an indication of something serious. They will have a dentist there (or at least on call to see you quickly).

 

[golfgal]

Go to the ER stat. Severe mouth pain is an indication of something serious. They will have a dentist there (or at least on call to see you quickly).

Not always...as we found out with DD.

Call before you go to see if they have a dentist on staff or on call.

 

[Bilberry]

I don't have much to offer in the short term other than good luck! Hope in the end you find a treatment that works best for you and your infected tooth.

In the long term, for prevention, you might look to supplement with vitamin D3. I've had a few root canals myself. And had one tooth in particular that was infected similar to your description. No fun at all to deal with. The tooth was to infected by the time I made it to the dentist that pain killers were not working. So ended up basically with a root canal with out pain deadeners. That was a miserable experience. I'm not interested in doing that again!

What has helped me greatly regarding tooth health has been taking vitamin D3, and also avoid grains, like wheat. Since doing this, I haven't had a cavity in 5 years.

Recall seing this article from Dr. Guyenet about tooth health. What is mentioned in the article is pretty similar to what I did.

"Dr. Mellanby's Tooth Decay Reversal Diet"

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2010/12/dr-mellanbys-tooth-decay-reversal-diet.html

Have read a few times also about civilizations that did not eat grains tended to not have dental cavities. One recent mention about this from Dr. Eades.

"Wheat Belly"

http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/saturated-fat/wheat-belly/

snippet:

Over a half decade ago Professor Jared Diamond, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel, famously wrote

“The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.”

Dr Diamond was referring, of course, to the devolution of human health that took place as mankind suffered the corporal transformation driven by the mismatch between hunter-gatherer genes and an agricultural diet and lifestyle. Smaller stature, decreased cortical bone thickness, obesity, increased incidence of infectious diseases, dental caries, periodontal disease, vitamin deficiencies, and even famine – all common in agriculturists – were not, for the most part, the lot of pre-agricultural man.