About prescriptions – I’m a dentist and I don’t believe in them

I recently saw an article like this in my circle of friends, I don’t know where the author copied it from, the title is “toothache recipe book, seeking medical help is better than seeking yourself”, the content is as follows: 1, when the toothache, you can cut a small piece of ginger, bite in the pain, if necessary, you can repeat the use, when sleeping in the mouth also does not hurt.  2.Use honey to point at the toothache, after a few minutes, it will be fine, but also can make your mouth full of fragrance.  3.Cut a small piece of aloe vera, peel off the outer skin, and hold the pulp containing the sticky liquid inside in the painful area for 2 hours to relieve itself.  4.Just like treating a bruise, apply ice to the cheeks of the toothache area to relieve the pain. Apply for 15 minutes each time, at least 3 to 4 times a day.  5.10 lychees, fill its flesh with a little salt, simmer dry with fire and then grind it, rub the painful area.  6.Take an appropriate amount of garlic and mash it, warm it up and put it on the painful spot to relieve the symptoms of pulpitis, periodontitis and toothache.  7.Take 10 grams of white pepper and grind it into powder, add white wine to make a paste and put it into the tooth cavity in 4 times.  8.Take an appropriate amount of beehive, add an appropriate amount of pure alcohol, light a fire and burn it, when the beehive burns to black ash, dip your finger in the ash and apply it to the affected tooth, usually for 4~5 minutes to relieve the pain.  9.Take a little of raw lard and new cotton, wrap the cotton with lard and bake it hot, bite on the toothache for a moment, 1 time 1 change, repeat several times.  10.Take 100 grams of white wine and put it in a cup, add 10 grams of salt, stir, and boil it after the salt dissolves. Contain a sip on the painful area (do not swallow), the toothache will immediately stop.  This article is really concise in language, simple and clear, with strict wording.  For example, article 7: “Take 10 grams of white pepper and grind it into a paste, add white wine and put it into the tooth cavity in 4 times.”  Must be 10 grams of white pepper, divided into 4 times, not 3 times or 5 times, if I am not a dentist I am sure to believe, how accurate the wording.  There is also a tip in parentheses in Article 10: “Do not swallow”, it is really caring, swallowing will be drunk?  Why is it easy for many uninformed people to believe in these prescriptions?  Because these prescriptions capture people’s psychology, many people are afraid of dental care, and the prescription is easy to do, and it will give you a promise, for example, the last sentence in Article 10: “The toothache will stop immediately”.  How dare you write that! Dentists are afraid to give such a promise, probably because the author of this article thinks that if someone tries it, even if it doesn’t work, they won’t find themselves, so feel free to write it, which is fooling patients.  The reason why “partial prescriptions” are called “partial prescriptions” and not “proper prescriptions” is that the poison to the general public is not only limited to fooling, but will seriously affect the patient’s treatment time.  I can understand the patient’s fear of seeing a dentist, I can also understand the patient’s lack of medical knowledge, if a patient has a toothache because of deep caries, and happens to see these “prescriptions”, TA will most likely choose to try it, which I can understand even more.  I have to admit that a sip of white wine can help a little when you have a toothache, but that is only sometimes, not always.  The result is that patients use prescriptions to maintain until the pulpitis, containing white wine is no longer useful, so they have to go to the dentist for root canal treatment, a tooth that could have been plugged directly, eventually must be “nerve extraction”, the patient needs to pay a lot of extra money and pain, do you want the dentists to earn more?  In fact, there are many such “prescriptions” in life, we can see through the scope of the dental profession at a glance, but we are also difficult to identify the content outside the profession, which is really a very painful thing for me, because no one will know all.  Jiwoo suggests that we should trust science and not believe in prescriptions, maybe some are useful, but most are useless or even wrong. In case of problems, seek professional help, do not try these prescriptions, the price you pay is likely to be your own health.