Dental surgeon at Shenzhen A.K.J Stomatology Hospital introduce the following ways to relieve odontoneuralgia mainly on aspects of behavior and diet.

Behavior

1.       Ice-pack treatment: ice compress can promote blood circulation and slow down the pain conduction of tooth nerve.

2.       Gargling with salt water: it equals to if you go to see dentist, he or she will help you rinse the inflammation area.

3.       Gargling with alcohol: it has the same disinfecting function as salt water.

4.       Put prickly ashes on the decayed tooth, which mainly aims at pain brought by the decayed tooth.

5.       Put crushed lilacs on the space between the decayed teeth for several hours. Lilacs can be bought in Chinese medicine stores.

6.     Massage or press Heku acupoint ( which is near the junctional area of thumb and index finger as the following picture shows) is also a easy way to relieve pains.

7.     Insist on brushing teeth every morning and evening and gargling after meals.

Diet

Dental surgeon at Shenzhen A.K.J Stomatology Hospital recommend the following two porridges that was recognized by patients.

Balsam pear mud

Ingredient: balsam pear; sugar

Steps of cooking:

1. Wash balsam pear and cut it into pieces.

2. Put balsam pear pieces in a bowl and mash them into mud.

3. Sprinkle right amount of sugar and mix up.

4. Around two hours later, filter out water.

Generally, eating balsam pear mud continuous three times can effectively relieve odontoneuralgia.

Lily porridge

Ingredient: Lily, lotus seed with its plumule retaining, rice.

Steps of cooking:

1. Put right amount water and rice in pot.

2. After water boiled, put lily and lotus seed in the pot.

3. Serve immediately when they are cooked together.

On one hand, if odontoneuralgia can’t be relieved by the above methods, it is likely that dental inflammation causes the serious illness. Patients should go to hospital immediately.

On the other hand, if odontoneuralgia can be relieve for a certain degree through the above methods, patients should also go to hospital for finding out the exact reason and receive treatment to avoid later troubles. However, choosing a professional stomatology is really important to avoid misdiagnosis, false tooth extraction or other severe conditions.