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.

A dental emergency may not always come at the perfect time, however there are things we can do to prevent dental emergencies or at least help when they happen.

When you are on a trip, fishing out on the lake, at the amusement park, or on a long car ride, a toothache, or tooth injury is very inconvenient.

Knowing what to do until you can get to the dentist will be helpful in the case that an emergency happens.

    For a temporary relief of a cracked tooth or broken tooth, placing a small amount of gum in the place of the exposed root or nerve may help. Getting to the dentist as soon as you can is important for the life of the tooth.
    In many cases some over the counter pain medication may help. You can use acetaminophen, aspirin, or a numbing agent in a gel form. Also, if there is swelling, you can try an anti-inflammatory like ibuprofen.
    Do not rub aspirin or any other pill form of power on your tooth or gums, this can actually cause more harm than good. This can also cause sores in the mouth due to the acidic affect of the aspirin.
    Canker sores are another form of irritant that can cause an untimely discomfort. Tea tree oil gum can help. This can also come in a mouth wash type. There are mouthwashes with canker sore pain relievers. Preventing the pain is also available by watching the items you eat that can aggravate the sore. This would be like salty, sour or jagged ridged foods.
    For gum problems, you can try a ginseng tonic to relieve the irritated gum issue. Another option is a tea bag that is wet and held against the gum that is sore.
    If you get a toothache because of trapped food it is best to rinse out your mouth with warm water. Doing this may help to move the food from between the teeth.
    If this does not work, you can also try to use a cotton ball soaked in some limejuice.
    Using a little mint tea swished around in your mouth is also a numbing treatment that will work temporarily.
    There is also a possibility that one teaspoon of yarrow in hot water, drain the liquid with a piece of gauze, and then put it on the tooth.
    Rinsing your mouth with warm salt water and dabbing a little clove oil on the tooth may help temporarily. Clove oil has a numbing agent and also an antibacterial property to help.

Which ever option you choose, remember it is only a temporary solution. Regular dental checkups and treatment of cavities, gingivitis, and other tooth or gum issues are imperative to your oral health.

A toothache, or pain anywhere in the mouth or gums, can be associated with inflammation and infection. A toothache will occur due to infection or a cavity being close to the root of the tooth. If the tooth decay has reached the root and has penetrated to the chamber that has the nerves and blood cells, a dentist office visit is a must.

In most cases these issues can be prevented with early detection. This is not to say that those rare incidences of an injury or a broken tooth due to jamming or something of that sort will never happen. Though, it is meaning that you can lower the risk of dental emergencies with good dental upkeep.