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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Chibi_Elsa on 2025-08-23 19:27:05+00:00.

When I got my wisdom teeth removed, my bottom left hole hurt for excruciatingly longer than expected- for a month it was insanely painful.

I was told that you could use cloves in the area to help ease the pain… Well clearly all logic went with those wisdom teeth because my mind went to garlic cloves and when I tell you the pain was through the roof. It burned so bad, and the area felt WORSE after as opposed to better. I couldn’t understand why this wasnt working. Awful awful awful.

About a year later I was making Phō and the recipe called for cloves… There was a picture of said cloves… And I dawned on me…

tl;dr I used garlic cloves instead of regular cloves on my throbbing open mouth wound to “alleviate the pain”

P.S. went back to the dentist twice to report the pain before being suggested cloves, all they said was that that area must nust be taking longer to heal than other- eventually, they did a deeper type of x ray and discovered that shards of my wisdom tooth was left over in deep and my gums had healed over them… that’s what was hurting