What is best for dental nerve pain?!

Boots have just bought out a new tablet that has both paracetamol and nurofen (equivalent) in it. This is to mimic the regime that dentists use for dental pain.

But the pain needs to be sorted with an emergency appointment with your dentist and probably an antibiotic prescription. It will normally not resolve on its own and just gets worse with swelling.

dental nerve pain is horrible!
and neither tbh, ibruprofen & paracetamol take around 1 hr to kick in, and by then the pain is much worse and you cant really notice a difference.

try this - boil the kettle and pour it into a bowl, soak a flannel or piece of cloth in the hot water, wait till it cools down a tiny bit, and chew on the flannel, the warm water will sooth the tooth, leaving the nerve settled :)
it works very well.

Not much :(

I had a dry socket last week, which is exposed nerves. The pain was awful!! I just cried...


You can take ibuprofen and paracetamol together at the same time. I found spacing them every 2 hours helped a tiny bit. I was using prescription painkillers too... Tramadol and 90mg of codeine at a time. It barely touched it. Oil of cloves helps!! Mix some with a bit of warm water and dab it on with a cotton bud/ q-tip Try not to get it on your gums though because it burns. That helped me the most and an ice pack on my cheek.

Best bet is to see a dentist asap x

Go to your dentist. Taking medication is a temporary solution. What will you do? Keep having painkillers for a year?The pain will come back sooner or later. Pain is the bodys way to let you know that something is wrong. If theres an infection, it'l soon cause swelling and stuff. Worse than what your suffering now.
Go to the dentist,he'l get rid of the root of the prob..then you neednt think of it again.

Personally, I don't use pharmaceuticals, but from past experience I would definitely say that Co-Codamol is by far the most effective and the quickest at relieving tooth pain. Paracetamol simply isn't strong enough.

Personal experience

First try to figure out if it is due to infection in which case you would have to use an antibiotic also. Go to a dentist.

Ibuprofen is better as it is anti-inflammatory as well as analgesic.

Neither

go to your GP and get some Co-Codamol - by far better than Ibuprofen

If you only have the two you list - then Ibuprofen is better although you can take both - Ibuprofen does not contain Paracetamol

Ibuprofen because it can also help to reduce swelling.
You can take them both if the pain is bad but make sure you dont take more than the packet says.
I know this from previous experience when I had jaw surgery!

you should go to doctor.