I've got a painful oatcake stuck in my gum.

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It happened a few weeks ago and everytime I eat it gets pushed in and quite hurts.

Any way to get it out. Water flossers, tepi and floss isn't helping.

Dentist has a wait, didn't book something as it was several weeks away and hoped it would be out by now :(

Can you see it in the mirror? Tweezers?

Sounds crazy, but would eating another oatcake clear it out?

No can't see it, it's between two teath so difficult to reach. Keep trying to floss but that just moves out the new food that's pushing it down

Haven't thought about having more oatcake! Might give that a go

You need an air flosser! Not the cheapest of solutions though.

Have you considered seeing your dentist?

Is it definitely still there? Could your gum just be irritated?
Can you get the non sharp end of a sewing needle and try? You can buy a set of dental tools, picks and mirror as such on amazon for about £8. They’re ace in situations like this!

Feel sorry for your pain OP but your thread title did make me laugh!

Have you rinsed with warm salty water? Or with tcp? I find warm water dislodges stuff better. Or, a bigger tepi?

Have you sloshed warm water in and around for quite some time. Then tried flossing?

Or swirl again for a while with really fizzy water?

MrsGrindah, I clicked on to find out how one manages to get an oatcake stuck in one’s bum 😂

Suck like mad on the tooth

Usually eventually dislodges enough for me to floss out

Or try thread as it's finer

I'd have gone round the twist after a couple of weeks of it!

A hydrogen peroxide mouth wash like Colgate Peroxyl. Bubbles up in your mouth and might be enough to dislodge it

Serves you right for not eating a proper biscuit....

Thanks ladies! I'm sucking and will be swishing. It's not driving me crazy as it comes out a bit then gets rammed up when I eat.

DS got a piece of popcorn stuck in his. DH massages and massages until it popped out. Can you get to it to try that?

Coconut oil may help if swished.

Massaged not massages

You need an inter dental brush- you can buy them from boots, get the long ones with the pink handle in a small mm size. The smaller and cheaper ones are useless! They work wonders & I promise will get anything out!

Have you tried chewing gum? Sounds daft but I find it often dislodges bits stuck between my teeth.

I agree you should try an interdental brush, I find they dislodge most things.

You should have made the dental appointment weeks ago though, you can always cancel it if you don’t need it. I would make one now just in case. Or ask for an emergency appointment next week if you are in pain.

Interdentals will work, as other pps have said. You want the ‘bottle brush’ kind, not the rubbery ones. Lidl’s do their own version. Any supermarket will have them.

Interdental brush all the way. I love my tiny bottle brushes!, so so much more effective than floss ever was. Interdental brushes should shift it, or at least enough to be able to grab it with tweezers etc.

Tesco do them, I get them with my normal home delivery shop, so you could pop out to all night supermarket and get one now maybe?

Water, swilled a lot, will help to loosen it. Could you get someone to have a look, perhaps with a toothpick?

OP has already tried tepe (interdental) brushes.

Dh uses a cocktail stick for prising stuff out.

Whereabouts in your mouth is it?