How Can Canadian Seniors Save on Dental Care?

Many Canadian Seniors Brave Terrible Toothpain!

One way Canadian Seniors can save a lot on dental care is to have all their teeth removed. Now, you may think this is a little drastic, but if you have a problem with TMJ and are not supposed to chew foods anyway, you may find your provincial healthcare plan will pay for day surgery to have your teeth removed.

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Imagine how much money could be saved if we had no teeth from Cradle to grave!

This post has some inexpensive ways to try to help the pain go away until you can afford to pay the dental bill.

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Thirteen Non-Medicinal Ways Some Canadian Seniors Manage to Get Toothache Relief

Here is a baker's dozen list of non-medicinal free and frugal ways some Canadian Seniors find themselves desperately using to decrease toothache pain.

1. Pray for God to take the pain away.
2. Use acupressure. There are some easily accessible acupressure points between your joints that can be very useful.
3. Make a cold compress and press on the side of your face where it hurts.
4. Use distraction. While I don't recommend dropping something heavy on your toe, The action of distraction can be very useful in making the pain go.  If the pain is quite severe having a different sensation like an itch on your back can help distract you from the pain. There are other things too that you can do to fool the brain into ignoring the pain. Staring at a  blurry blue and white image is great. However, avoid looking at the red. Why? I've read that science has shown that looking at the colour red increases blood pressure and that will not bring pleasure to a throbbing tooth. Watching funny videos can help a bit, or scrolling through funny dog and cat pics.
5. Listening to soothing music. There are even some tonal videos that are supposed to help specifically with tooth pain.
6. Missing a filling? That is definitely not thrilling! A dental clinic in Ontario recommends getting sugar-free gum and putting some in the hole until you can get it replaced. A friend bought me some sugar-free Extra peppermint gum. Which did seem to help my problem.
7. Stop talking! Now is a great time to brush up on your sign language. Didn't study it before? What are you waiting for? Alternately, you can write everything down or play charades.
8. Make clove tea and let it cool, then let it sit on your gums. Another friend recommends nutmeg too. I used to make a toothache wash from whole cloves and licorice root. 
9. Keep your head elevated. Raise the head of your bed or prop yourself up in bed so you can sleep sitting up. I find that standing can even help more - and weirdly enough pacing the floor.
10. Keening. Yes, that horrible sound has been around for centuries, and yes, I guess it does work to help dispel the hurt.
11. Turn the lights off. Not only will it lower your hydro costs, so you can pay the dentist, but it can help ease the pain.
12. Go outside in the cold air, and don't put on your long underwear. The cold on your legs makes a good distraction.
13. Do Lamaze breathing! You think I'm teasing? Pain is pain!

Things Canadian Seniors Buy to Ease Dental Pain

1. Extra strength Tylenol is recommended by a dental clinic in Ontario. Get it cheap at Dollarama.
2. Numbing gel. There are several kinds you can get over the counter.

Places Canadian Seniors Can Get Lower Cost Dental Care

Any ideas?

 I met a gentleman in the multifaith room where I went to pray for our government to start to prioritize its spending. He informed me that he believes you can get free dental care at the Dental College in Toronto.  I still need to do some fact-checking on this, but I ask you - can everyone get to Toronto? And do you really want to?

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