Home Remedies For Toothache

One of the best known home remedies for toothache relief is the good old clove. Clove reduces the pain as it has antiseptic properties and clove oil, applied on the painful tooth, can ease toothache pain. fairly quickly. If you don't happen to have clove oil, try grinding a clove and apply the powder on the affected area. The tooth cannot be cured, but the clove will relieve you of your pain.

Wheat grass juice, widely available nowadays, is an excellent home remedy and can help to prevent, and sometimes even cure toothaches. It is also possible to chew on wheat grass for pain relief. The grass will stop bacteria from reproducing and helps to draw bacteria out of the painful area.

Chew on a piece of raw onion for three minutes to ease toothache pain, or to generally kill bacteria in your mouth. By doing this not only will you relieve the pain you can possibly help to cure the toothache. If you cannot chew, a small piece of raw onion directly applied to the spot of the toothache, will ease toothache pain almost immediately.

A luke warm saltwater mouthwash will mildly disinfect your mouth and will rinse the tooth and gums offering gentle toothache pain relief. This is possibly the easiest toothache home pain remedy, as basically everyone will have some salt available in their kitchen. Last but not least as far as successful toothache pain relief is concerned,

a clove of garlic, possibly mashed up with a little salt and placed on the tooth, will relieve the pain and act as an anaesthetic. Sometimes even curing milder toothaches, this home remedy could be one of the more successful ones when applied regularly.

When Should You Visit Your Dentist?

There are home remedies for toothaches and most of them are very effective indeed. Do, however, make sure to contact a doctor or visit your dentist if you develop a fever in combination with a toothache, a fever might occur in these situations when bacteria from the tooth end up in the bloodstream.