Have you heard of a alligator's toothache story? Well if you didn't it's Is about a alligator who went to it's dentist because he wanted to extract his teeth which causes him pain. But the dentist keeps on pulling the wrong pain which leads to the alligator to snap it's jaw. The dentist never seen again after that one.

That's just my first introductory statement, don't mind that. I remember it reading when I was in etary school and my teacher keeps on telling us to brush our teeth because when our teeth is in pain. Our whole body will be affected by it. As a child I believe her, but I didn't follow her. Who doesn't want to eat a chocolate right? Or even some candy. But one thing I regret is not brushing my teeth after eating one. So therefore my tooth became weak. And right now I have 2 missing tooth in both side of my 2nd molar. Well it's not big deal because no one can see it unless I show it to them.

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Why I'm writing this article??

One reason, I'm having a toothache right now. And it makes my brain unfunctional. I have 2 suspicion why it's aching right now. First is that, it is because of cavities. It started just yesterday afternoon. Well a night before that, after brushing my teeth. I found a candy and eat it because it has menthol effect I ate it without thinking I want something to cool my head. Then I sleep without rebrushing my teeth. And in the next morning I ate a bunch of chocolate so that I'm gonna be fully awake for our morning jog. That's one suspect of my toothache. Second reason is that maybe it is because of my wisdom tooth who's starting to grow. My gums has no space for my wisdom tooth to grow so it's pushing other teeth. Talk about selfishness.

Effects of toothache

I don't really think I needed to write this one because I'm 99% Sure most of you who read this already experience it but still for an impormative article I needed to.

• Fever

• Swelling

• Difficult in swallowing

• Pain when chewing

Thats are common effect of toothache if this left untreated it may leads to some serious problem like

• Dehydration

• Trouble in breathing

• Fatigue

• And lymphs nodes

My younger brother has lymph nodes just last week ago and I think I written it here. It quite disturbing seeing number of lumps between near and necks And that's serious problem I swear.

To do when experiencing toothache.

So here's the remedy my mother's always suggesting me when I'm having a toothache.

1st attempt:brushing your teeth

If that's a mild ache, we can just brush our teeth. 2-3 times a day of brushing it per day is good to relieved the pain and also to remove the cavities and clean the teeth. You can just put toothpaste in the area where your teeth ache

2nd attempt: rinse water with salt

If you think the aches from your teeth is in still there, we move on to the next phase. Have a water and put a tablespoon of salt you can add more if you want. Don't drink it. Just rinse it. You can use hot water for better results.

3rd attempt: guava leaf

Our neighbor has guava tree so we can get 3 to 5 guava tree is enough, just choose the young leaves it's mostly seen at the end of the branch of it's tree. After taking leaves put it in a hot water you can also add salt in it and rinse it. Sometimes I'm chewing the leaves and living it there for 5 minutes. It works actually.

4th attempt: indian snakeroot

This is also a herbal medicine, but more powerful and effective than guava leaf. You'll just gonna do the same in the third attempt. Beware it's bitter as hell. And many people can't take it hahaha

5th attempt: take medicine

This is something I didn't want to do, it's not that I'm scaring all of you. But taking medicine is a no no for me. I don't like to take medicine because it's just a herbal medicine that has some chemical in it. I don't like it because it attacks our kidney. Yes it does. You know why we only have amount of grams of medicine to take for a day. Because too much of it will leads to some problem in our body. Like kidney failure. There's some medicine that will relieve the pain. In Philippines the most common medicine is mefenamic medicine.

6th attempt: consult a dentist

If you think of it as more serious then no need to hesitate and went to the nearest dentist on you. They will gave you a check up will just gonna gave you a drug prescription of pain reliever. After a week or when your teeth doesn't cause pain anymore you can visit them again to extract it. This might be the best option to do consult your dentist.

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Closing thoughts

There are more remedies for a toothache, like cold compress, some people do hot compress, there are people like me who's just putting pressure on my face. I'm thinking that when I put too much pain in it I can bare the next pain.

Well what I advice you is to always take car of your teeth. Brush it everyday, eat foods rich in calcium. Don't eat too much sweets.

"Prevention is better than solutions"