[Outlaw Woman]

My brother is into ‘natural’ alternatives when it comes to illness. Silver (liquid form) is one thing he believes in and last year, when I had a pretty serious toothache, he gave some to me and told me to ‘hold’ it on my tooth and then swallow. I did...the toothache was gone in hours.

Coincidence?

[RegulatorCountry]

Silver is antimicrobial, with those microbes being the bacteria eating away at your tooth. Kill the bacteria, kill the rot.

If you can stand the pungency of it, crush a fresh garlic clove and place it over the tooth, it’ll do the same thing, for the same reason.

Neither addresses the damage done, though, so it’s stopgap at best. The bacteria will return and eventually there will be an abcess, unless the damaged area is cleared of bacteria and rot then sealed or otherwise repaired.