Video: Dental Health: Toothache Relief

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Toothaches are generally caused by pressure or infections. Relieve toothache pain with tips from a dentist in this free oral hygiene video.

Video Transcript

I'm Dr. Joe Neely, and I practice with the Barton Oaks Dental Group. We're going to talk about toothache relief. You can think of the relief on a toothache as coming in one of two major categories. Your your toothache is coming either because of exposure of the tooth to some substance or or temperature change, or from from pressure. The pressure can come from trauma, or from infection. In that case, the the the relief of that pain is going to come when the pressure is relieved. Sometimes when there's a large infection, that relief can come from simply vent, finding a way to vent that pressure to the surface, which can be done by opening up an an abscess, or opening up a tooth that's that's highly infected. The the second category, which is exposure; it can come from a break in the tooth, which a filling would take care of. It could come from a fracture of a larger portion of a tooth, which a a a crown or something stronger that could replace that structural element, but cover that tooth up. But sometimes it's just as simple as putting some type of coating over an exposed root surface, or an un-braided area in a tooth, and often fluoride, or some type of of plastic sealant material would suffice.

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Dental Health: Toothache Relief

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