What is the best thing to do when you break your tooth? This is a very painful situation and thinking rationally may not always be at the top of your list of priorities under these painful circumstanced. However if you are prepared, it will make dealing with a broken tooth easier.

It is a good idea to be prepared for dental emergencies like a broken tooth. This is actually a pretty simple thing to do. You can create a dental emergency prepare kit for issues that may happen during times you can not get to a dentist right away.

Here are the items you will need to have in your dental emergency prepare kit:

Soft dental or orthodontic wax
Dental floss
Tempanol or Cavit, which is a temporary filling material
Olive of cloves (eugenol)
Cotton pellets
Small tweezers
Rubber gloves
Bottle of water
Small bottle of antiseptic mouthwash

Our teeth at designed with the hardest substance in our bodies to support it. However they can still break due to several different reasons. These reasons would be due to a sudden hard impact, a tooth that is rotten due to decay, or a weakened tooth due to nutritional deficiencies.

Depending on the type of break you have, will make the difference about the things that need to be done to take care of the break. In all cases, you will want to set an appointment with your dentist to have the break repaired so as not to leave an open sport for decay to produce a cavity.

The way a tooth is made is like this; the tooth has a hard enamel layer on the outside. On the inside there is a substance called dentin. This area is the fleshy raw nerve part that can be painful if exposed.

When someone chips their tooth, this usually is just part of the enamel and the tooth is not exposed down to the dentin. Therefore there is little to no pain involved. In this situation if there is no pain, you will want to call your dentist to have it repaired in a timely manner. Though, it is not a reason to go into an emergency mode. If there is a little pain, you can try some ibuprofen or some pain reliever and numbing gel. Your dentist can then smooth out the chip or build it up to be even.

A break that goes all the way to the pulp is the ones that cause severe pain and problems. Depending on the severity of the break, there can be bleeding from the tooth. With these types of breaks a more immediate dental appointment is needed. The dentist can rebuilt the tooth and give you some pain reliever to help with the pain.

If a tooth is broken to where the pulp in the tooth is damaged, you will need to have your dentist do something like a root canal to repair the problem.

When a tooth breaks, it will be more sensitive to cool things, air, hot things and anything that would be an irritant to the inside of the tooth. With this in mind, it is a good idea not to do anything with a broken tooth to increase the level of pain. When the tooth is rebuilt, then you will be able to continue with your normal daily patterns of eating and drinking.

When the tooth has been repaired, your dentist will probably want to have a follow up appointment to ensure that the haling process is going well.