Can anyone recommend a gel or cream to numb my gum from severe headache from have a tooth out?
I recently had my tooth out, and adjectives seemed well but in a minute 4 days later i am in real agony the pain is unbearable. It is getting so much on my nerves. I a moment ago want to rip my gum out of my mouth.
I have taken pain killer ( 2X co-codomol) and this is having minimal effect. I have be taking these for the last 5 days and it is just as unpromising
Futhermore,my gum is still rather inflammed and extremely painful.
As a situation of fact there is a short time spot on the area which is most effected its close to even with a slight touch with my tounge no pressure, its similar to a knife going straight through the gum
I hope someone can understand what sort of stomach-ache I am going throuh and it would be greatly appreciated if someone can recommend something
Is there anything like a gel which can numb your gums resembling what they use in the dentist needles, but it is available at the chemist?
Thanks
Ben
Answers: Sounds to me like you hold Dry Socket. Without being treated this will hurt for a few weeks. Treatment is really simple. It usually consists of gently flushing out the socket, conceivably getting a little bleeding going again to form a blood clot, and placing a medication called Alvogyl inside the socket that will cause it feel better. You usually only requirement to do this once, but sometimes it takes a couple of applications of the medication.
Not much else will help you.
Dry Socket is an inflammation of the bone that occur 3-4 days after a tooth extraction. So, you will feel reasonably all right after the extraction for a few days, but all of a sudden around the 4th day you will get hold of an excruciating pain. It is not an infection, but an inflammation. It is because either a blood clot does not form, or is lost, and the bone is vanished open and gets inflammed..
i would use anbesol fluid or anbesol gel to apply it to the gums and drink advil.
but if i were you i would go to the dentist so he can see what the problem is and hand over you the right advise..
orabase it is not a gel it is a paste found at most pharmacys look it up it really help i would know. Orajel is good.