How to Cope with a Dental Abscess

Most of us have found ourselves in the situation where a gnawing pain in a tooth racks it up a few notches and develops into a full blown abscess, and it’s usually on a Friday night. All the dentists are closed for the weekend and the only ones you can contact will ask you to pay through the nose for help. The emergency room at the hospital has a dentist on call but all he will do is prescribe relatively ineffective pain killers, so you resign yourself to a long weekend of agony. Monday takes about 3 weeks to arrive and you get in touch with your regular dentist who can’t see you till next Wednesday. So what can you do?

I’ve been there more times than enough so I am in a position to suggest a few strategies you might like to adopt to get you through the agony.

• Put on headphones, pump up the volume and allow a little powerful, high pitched, operatic bel canto to pierce the pain and clear out every little nook and cranny. You know the kind I mean, that singing that is so high pitched that it cracks windows and terrifies the cat.

• Turn back the clock to 1977 and get on board an ancient Soviet airliner. When the engines start to roar put your head down on the armrest (if fitted) and let the violent vibrations rub the pain into oblivion. Worry about air safety for the rest of the flight and that will take your mind off any residual pain. If you need a top up during the flight just sniff the alcohol soaked air and that will render you happily unconscious.

• Walk through the foggy streets of Old Delhi on a winter’s night Just walk, continually. When you get tired, or when the pain begins to dissipate, muscle your way into the circle of men sitting around a burning brazier giving off heat and smoke, then continue on your way when your mouth begins to hurt again.

These have all worked for me, they might work for you too, but I suppose the dentist will tell us that the only way to avoid dental hell is to never eat sweets or drink sugary drinks, and to brush our teeth regularly and generally look after them and have a boring life.

For more, visit:

http://www.authspot.com/Journals/Delhi-The-Toothache-Diary.137096

http://www.healthmad.com/Health/Cello-Scrotum.498955