Garlic is the best natural remedy for toothache
Dr. Suresh Amarnathan, BDS.,
Garlic is a popular super food that boosts our health by improving our immune system and heart health. It is familiar for its strong and unique smell. The foul odor of garlic is most often tolerated in cooking environments. It is, however, praised as a conventional toothache cure. But for oral health, no one likes their breath to smell like garlic. Do garlic really relieves toothache? Let us see below.
How Garlic help with toothache?
Garlic for tooth pain is followed since many years ago. A compound called Allicin is responsible for garlic breath, the same compound is also responsible for garlic’s antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal properties.
Not only it relieves toothache, but also helps battle against gum diseases.
Do you know there are about 500 different species of bacteria naturally present in your mouth? Yes, but some of the bacteria are good and some are not good. Keeping bad and good bacteria in balance help keep your mouth healthy. They help in preventing gum disease also.
Allicin helps in preventing tooth decay by fighting against bad bacteria. Some studies say that using garlic extract prevents gum diseases by controlling the bad bacteria population and allowing the good bacteria to grow.
Many oral health products claim that their product kills 99.9% of bacteria. Think of all bacteria that are killed, good bacteria also get killed. As the regrowth rate of bad and good bacteria is different, it creates an imbalance between the bad and good bacteria. Thus oral health gets harmed along with other body health.
The best emergency toothache reliever:
While consulting your dentist is the best option for any tooth problem, tooth pain that occurs suddenly at midnight or early morning is difficult to handle. For this type of situation, garlic acts as an emergency medicine until you reach your dentist’s office or offers a choice until the dental clinic is open.
Ways to get the benefits of Garlic:
Getting the benefits of Garlic (allicin) is easy. You can add this regularly to your cooking dishes or add to your vitamin regimen as a supplement. They are highly nutritious and have fewer calories.
Don’t consume garlic only to improve your oral health. Eat it also to improve your overall health. The power of allicin can reduce your curable days of the common cold from 5 days to just 1.5 days by boosting your immune system.
To find out the underlying causes of your tooth pain contact us or visit our clinic for the best solution.
