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

• Arsenicum album: Unhealthy, bleeding gums. 

• China: Also used for gum tissue that is bleeding. 

• Ferrum phosphoricum: Used for poor gum tone or gums that bleed after brushing. 

• Hypericum: For tender gum tissue and to promote healing. 

• Kali chloricum: When you have acute ulcerative tissue or decay in the teeth.  

• Natrium muriaticum: Tissue integrity or health.

• Hepar sulphuris: Tissues with suppuration, the tendency for chronic abscesses.

• Silicea: Periodontal abscess with swollen glands.

• Staphysagria: Loose teeth, the pain increased by pressure. 

• Symphytum: when there are injuries to the periosteum or the bone. Stimulates growth of normal skin on ulcerated or decayed surfaces. 

• Mercurius solubilis: A state of acute ulcerative tissue/ tooth decay with a coated tongue and metallic taste in the mouth. 

• Nux vomica: If you have swollen painful gums when the back of the tongue has a whitish coating in a person who consumes a lot of stimulants such as coffee and tea. 

• Phosphorus: Used for swollen gums that bleed easily, and when there’s an overproduction of saliva. 

• Ruta graveolens: Injured bone and alveolitis (“dry socket”).

• Merc viv: When there is tenderness and swelling of the bone in a condition like dental periostitis.

BLEEDING/ HEMORRHAGE

• Arnica: Bleeding accompanied by bruised soreness of the teeth. 

• Ferrum phosphoricum: When there is bright red bleeding of the teeth. 

• Phosphorus: Use for persistent or chronic bleeding.

POST-OPERATIVE DISCOMFORT

• Apis mellifica: Post-injection soreness after dental work. 

• Chamomilla: This can be used an hour prior to a dental appointment for patients with a low pain threshold. It also expedites the wearing off of the numbness following the dental appointment. 

• Gelsemium: Eliminate the nervous reactions to local anesthetics; calming the child/ adult before the procedure.

• Hypericum: Where there is an injured nerve.

• Ledum: For puncture wounds and soreness resulting from a dental injection. 

• Magnesia phosphoricum: Stiffness and soreness of the jaws following prolonged dental work when the muscles are cramped and feel better with warmth. 

• Staphysagria: Used for incision-type wounds after soft tissue surgery. 

• Symphytum: Used for trauma of bone and periosteum, after dental operations.

SALIVATION (Abnormal)

• Baryta carbonica: When there is excessive salivation during sleep, this remedy can be used. 

• Bryonia alba: Use for an extremely dry mouth, with dryness of mucous membranes and great thirst. 

• Phosphorus: Hyper-salivation, when the gums are swollen and bleed easily. 

• Pulsatilla: Diminished or scanty saliva with no thirst at all.

TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT (TMJ)

• Arum triphyllum: Pain in the joint on swallowing. 

• Calcarea flourica: When there are hypermobile joints in a person.  

• Calcarea phosphoricum: When the mouth cannot be opened without pain. 

• Carbo vegetabilis: Vertigo with nausea and tinnitus or ringing in the ears. 

• Chamomilla: When the pain threshold is low in a person. Unbearable spasms of pain radiating into the ear. 

• Cuprum metallicum: When the mouth or jaws cannot be opened fully, with difficulty with eating, drinking, and oral hygiene.

• Granatum: When there is painful cracking of the joint. 

• Magnesium phosphoricum: When there are muscle spasms around the joint. 

• Phytolacca decandra: Earaches with pain extending into teeth, jaw, and throat. 

• Rhus Toxicodendron: Joint stiffness that improves with movement and for popping of the TMJ.

TOOTHACHE

• Antimonium crudum: Toothache that is worse at night and is aggravated by heat. 

• Aranea diadema: Sudden, severe pain in the teeth after lying down. 

• Belladonna: Throbbing tooth which gets worse when pressure is applied. 

• Calcarea carbonicum: Toothache that worsens when exposed to hot or cold air. 

• Chamomilla: A toothache with intolerable pain that gets worse from warmth and not better with cold. 

• Coffea cruda: Toothache that worsens with heat and is relieved by ice. 

• Ferrum metallicum: Toothache, relieved by ice water. 

• Magnesia carbonicum: Toothache, worse at night, person must get up and walk about for relief.

• Magnesia phosphoricum: A toothache, worse from cold and better from warmth. 

• Plantago major: Toothache, better with pressure and worse without cold air. 

• Pulsatilla: Toothache, relieved by holding cold water in the mouth. 

• Staphysagria: When the pain is from major decay of a number of teeth.

TOOTH ERUPTION

• Calcarea carbonica: Used for the delayed eruption of teeth. 

• Chamomilla: Used for difficult teething. 

• Zlncum metallicum: Used for teeth gritting during difficult eruption and associated with loose teeth and bleeding gums.

DENTAL ULCERATIONS

• Natrum muriaticum: Cold sores and fever blisters are addressed by this remedy. Lips and corners of mouth dry and cracked lips. 

• Nitric acid: Ulcers with irregular edges and a raw appearance with a tendency to bleed easily.

WISDOM TOOTH TROUBLES

When this leads to ear pain: Calc flour

You can refer to this when you encounter an acute condition of the teeth for yourself or your family.

For any long-lasting or recurrent issues, a deeper understanding of the predispositions of an individual along with the other accompanying symptoms of the case is needed for proper treatment. This can be achieved by working with a professional homeopath.

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