DENTAL PROBLEMS AND HOMEOPATHY: A GENERAL GUIDE

Here is a general guide to the use of homeopathy for self-prescribing in commonly encountered Dental conditions. Hope this will be useful for you.

DENTAL ABSCESS

• Belladonna: Best for early dental abscess accompanied by redness and throbbing. 

• Bryonia: Use for acute inflammation or if pricking or stitching pain is relieved by firm pressure. 

• Hepar sulphuris: When there is an abscess accompanied by pus formation. 

• Myristica: You can use it when swelling is accompanied by numbness of the area. 

• Pulsatilla: When the pain is accentuated by heat and relieved by cold water. 

• Pyrogenium: When pus is present without drainage and there is a risk of infection.

• Silicea: Used to hasten the discharge when pus is draining, in low potencies.

FEARS/ APPREHENSION RELATED TO DENTAL PROCEDURES

• Aconite: When there is panic, fright, and general mental and physical restlessness, or sudden violent attacks of fear.

• Calcarea carbonica: Use for the fearful, weary, and hopeless person who worries toward evening. 

• Coffea cruda (potentized coffee): Works well as a tranquilizer. 

• Chamomilla: It has a tranquilizing action for restful sleep. It also raises a low pain threshold. 

• Nux vomica: Works well in many high-strung, nervous, irritable people with stomach problems. 

• Pulsatilla: Useful for states of anxiety in mild gentle persons.

BRUXISM: A state of grinding or clenching of teeth, in children or stressed adults.

• Belladonna: When the grinding problem causes painful teeth. 

• Podophyllum: Use for night or sleep grinding with a burning sensation of the tongue.

DENTAL CARIES/ NECROSIS: Theridion

GINGIVITIS, PERIODONTITIS AND ALVEOLITIS