Toothache Pain Relief   Changing Your View Of Root Canals

Toothache pain relief is essential when you have a diseased tooth pulp. The dental pulp is the soft tissue on the inside of your tooth. This tissue contains nerve tissue and blood supply.

The tooth pulp is very important when you are a child and your tooth is developing. When tooth injury occurs during childhood the tooth may never complete its development.

A tooth injury can cause a child to need toothache pain relief just like deep tooth decay. These teeth can still be saved sometimes through complex root canal therapy known as apexification.

Once the tooth has completely developed the tooth pulp can become inflamed or infected. This means you may need toothache pain relief very quickly. Not every sensitive tooth is a dental emergency. We are talking about the severe toothache; the kind that wakes you up at night.

What causes the tooth pulp to become so diseased that it produces such a severe toothache?

• A deep dental cavity. When you have tooth decay that gets close to the tooth pulp you can have a severe toothache. The bacteria from the decay infiltrates the pulp tissue and causes inflammation.
• A dental restoration. If you have a filling or a crown on a tooth the pulp can become inflamed and painful. Sometimes this happens soon after the restoration is placed. Other times it takes years to develop into a painful or sensitive tooth requiring toothache pain relief.
• Tooth injury. If you bump your tooth in an accident the tooth pulp can get injured and eventually become painful.
• Cracked tooth. A cracked tooth can eventually require toothache pain relief. Some cracks are shallow and the remedy may just be a filling or crown. Severe cracks, however, will require more extensive treatment.

What can be done to bring toothache pain relief? You've probably heard of many home remedies for toothache pain. Many are harmless.

There is one you should absolutely not try.  I discuss this one in Chapters 10 & 11 of The Relaxed Root Canal.

Probably none of the home remedies for a severe toothache from the tooth pulp are any more effective than over the counter analgesics.

If you just have a sensitive tooth you might need something as simple as a small filling. But if you have a severe toothache from an inflamed or infected tooth pulp you will only have two options:
extraction of the tooth or root canal therapy.

I know you were hoping to read of toothache pain relief that comes in a magical pill or liquid. Sorry, but it doesn't exist. Here's why.

Once the tooth pulp becomes inflamed or infected and causes a toothache there is but one toothache cure. The pulp must be removed! This can only be accomplished with tooth removal or root canal therapy.

In my 20+ years as an endodontist (root canal specialist) I've had many patients try to convince me that all they needed was an antibiotic. You may get some temporary toothache pain relief from antibiotics and pain medications. But I promise you that your toothache will return if the tooth pulp is not removed.

Hearing that you need root canal therapy is always unwelcome news. There is actually a great deal of
confusion about what a root canal really is.

That's one of the reasons I wrote The Relaxed Root
Canal.  In this digital book I answer over 80 questions I've heard through my years of performing thousands of root canals.

In Chapter 5 I tell you the ONE QUESTION YOU SHOULD ASK BEFORE YOUR ROOT CANAL. I'll even
recommend what you should do if you get the wrong answer from your dentist.

There is way too much anxiety about this simple dental procedure. Learn why and how you can relax
about your root canal. CLICK HERE.

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