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Ibuprofen might work better than tylenol. I took tylenol 1 tablets (tylenol with 8m codeine) and that worked for me.

The pain will ease, ibuprofen will help as its an anti-inflammatory. Salt water with warm water is very soothing too, just hang in there!

Take 4 ibuprofens. This is what my oral surgeon recommended when I had wisdom teeth removed. 4 iboprufen = prescription ibuprofen (800mg)

Be patient the pain will pass...As the others have said ibuprofen will help. Dont chew to hard, have soup, custard, ice-cream etc. Congrats on you new journey.

Hi Pink,

A combination of Aleeve and Ambesol did the trick for me. The pain will go away as time passes.

Definitely eat soft foods for a while.

Feel better soon!!!

Try a heating pad.

I second the ibuprofen. 4 every eight hours should tide you over. You can also take 2 extra strength tylenol on top of it, but make sure you're not taking more than 2 tylenol every 6 hours and 4 ibuprofen every 8 hours. I do that when my teeth really hurt or when I have awful cramps. You wouldn't want to do it for a year, but once in a while it's fine.

like others said, ibuprofen is the best bet for braces pain since the pain is your bodys inflammatory response to pressure of the teeth against their sockets - ibuprofen's direct effect is reducing your bodys inflammatory response

tylenol doesn't seem to have much of an effect on its own, but since tylenol and ibuprofen are different drugs they can be taken together to increase the potency

if your really still hurting i guess you can try to get the doc to prescribe some painkillers, but your mileage will vary with that one

personally my painkiller combo is 1 percocet with 3 ibuprofen but a lot of people here would say thats overkill. For some odd reason my teeth hurt an incredible amount even after 2 and a half months into braces. Probably has a lot to do with the root canal that I had to do on a lower incisor two weeks ago