I couldn't stand it any longer.
I just had to pick and dig out the dressing that the dentist put on my broken tooth!
The tooth had been broken for a few months and aside from the occasional bit of food caught in it I wasn't having to many problems with it. I was brushing often and cleaning food from the fracture. I also doused it in salt water and cheap whiskey (as a mouth wash) on a regular basis.
Last week I finally went to the dentist to see about getting it fixed. The dentist put a 'dressing' on it until I am able to return for a repair next week. That meant I couldn't clean it and it has been causing me pain, giving me a foul taste in my mouth and giving me bad breath.
When I picked the dressing off I found that the foul taste was the tooth being infected and bleeding under the dressing.
It took a bit of picking and scrubbing to get it clean again followed by more mouth washes.
Now I have a broken tooth that no longer hurts and tastes a lot better.
I reckon a couple more days of proper cleaning and it might be a healthy broken tooth again.
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