Mary,
I hope that you have found relief for your tooth pain.
There is nothing worse! This may sound strange but
something that I used to do was to rub an ice cube
around between the palms of my hands. As long as
I could stand it. The longer the better. (I think)
Anyhow, it usually worked for my tooth pain as a temp
fix. Won\'t probably work for an absess or other
infection but for standard tooth pain, it sometimes
works. Kind of an accu-pressure type thing. One
word of caution though, put skin lotion on your palms
later since the skin with chap from the ice.
Good Luck
Jim