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I have no dental insurance and 75% of my tooth is missing. It’s been breaking for the past year. I get extreme tooth pain for about a week, then it trickles to not so bad, then it goes away for awhile.

Today it’s awful and I’ve tried everything I can:

- Vanilla extract.
- Tylenol.
- Grinding up Tylenol and putting it directly on the tooth.
- Anbesol.
- Swishing with warm water.
- Ice.
- Heating pad.
- Salt water.
- Hydrogen peroxide.
- Chloraseptic.
- Smoking menthol cigarettes.
- Stuffing bread in the tooth.
- Brushing my teeth.

I tried to get clove oil, but couldn’t find any at the store. We have no mouthwash.

Help, please. I’m going to call dentists tomorrow, but I don’t know if anyone will see me. I have no insurance and I lost my driver’s license. I have to get a paper notarized and send it off to Nebraska (I’m in Texas) before I can get it back.

I’m desperate.

I’ve considered yanking it out myself, but apparently that won’t fix the pain.
Also, it’s nearly eleven at night so I can’t really go anywhere at the moment.

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Sounds like you may have a cavity. Have you tried oragel? That’s the one I didn’t see you has listed. You could look into a student dental program at a vocational school or community college and see if they could do something. Often they do it for free. Hope this helps.
Genni | Nov 04, 2009