Healing With Tooth Pain? We Have The Answer!
Tooth pain can be incredibly disruptive—affecting how you eat, sleep, and go about your day. Many of our patients at Healing with Zen in Pasadena have turned to acupuncture for tooth pain relief after struggling with lingering discomfort from dental work, TMJ issues, or nerve sensitivity.
Acupuncture offers a natural and holistic solution to manage dental and jaw pain by improving blood flow, reducing inflammation, and calming the body’s pain response. By stimulating specific acupuncture points along the jawline, face, and neck, our licensed acupuncturists help ease tension in the jaw muscles, promote relaxation, and support the body’s healing process from within.
Unlike pain medications that only mask symptoms, acupuncture targets the root cause of imbalance, helping your body recover faster after procedures like tooth extractions, root canals, or oral surgeries. Patients often report less swelling, improved comfort, and faster recovery times after integrating acupuncture into their healing routine.
Whether your discomfort comes from TMJ tightness, nerve pain, or post-dental soreness, acupuncture provides a safe, drug-free approach to restore comfort and balance naturally.
At Healing with Zen, we believe your body has an incredible capacity to heal itself—sometimes it just needs a gentle nudge in the right direction. Read some of our patient testimonials below and see how our patients have healed from toothache to tooth free pain!
I learned about Zen from my acupuncturist in Laguna Woods a few years ago, but had been putting off acupuncture due to financial reasons. I came to Zen very mentally unwell with 3 of my front teeth severely decayed, #9 dead, and the others #10 and #11 on the cusp of dying and at least needing vital pulp therapy, potentially root canals. Zen listened to my case and my goals, and supported me from the beginning with so much empathy and support, despite that my goal to revive a dead tooth was probably unheard of. My sinuses and symptoms from the abscessed tooth were flairing up at this point, and after 1 treatment from Zen in January I had an immediate improvement in my sinuses. They flushed and the symptoms from my abscessed already was feeling a little better. The goal for me was to boost the immune system from the inside and to keep the tooth super clean. Along with the acupuncture treatments I was employing a very strict herbal protocol to help rid my body of bacteria and boost my lymph. These worked steadily to help keep inflammation at bay, but I could tell that’s Zen’s acupuncture gave my symptoms relief right away. Fixing the infection would take time however. When I did go back to get an updated CT scan and xrays, the endodontist and other dentists did feel that the infection was getting smaller from the inside but were skeptical that I could reverse the infection entirely once it’s past the acute stage. I didn’t want to give up, and with Zen’s help and encouragement, I felt supported, even if I was aware of the odds.
Zen always listened to me and had genuine interest in my journey and everything that’s going on. But the time March came around I was slowly making progress improving the infection, but had not yet been able to rid it completely and rather than risk losing more of the tooth structure, I ended up opting for a partial root canal treatment called a revascularization, where the necrotic pulp is removed, and we use PRF to help stimulate blood, lymph and dentin to regrow (but not the nerve), if there is healthy bleeding a month after the pulpectomy. Even though the tooth had been infected for 4 years and I had to remove my wisdom teeth in between procedures, alas! Healthy blood flow was there, and we were able to successfully attempt the revascularization procedure. The infected area of the bone seems to be healing slowly and I didn’t need to take any antibiotics.
Also #11 healed enough that it didn’t even need vital pulp therapy once it was worked on, just a filling. #10 did need vital pulp therapy (direct pulp cap), but it was only a very small part of the root that was exposed, and it had no bleeding or sign of inflammation so it wasn’t necessary to remove any of the pulp. According to Dr Riman’s experience, she finds Vital Pulp therapy is successful about 70% of the time in adults.
I really cannot thank Zen enough for all her help and support and listening to me rambling on and on about teeth lol. Aside from being an amazing acupuncturist, she’s also just an incredibly kind and grounded person, who always encouraged me and validated my feelings even when I felt like I had no right to be as upset as I was.
I took a break from acupuncture for about a month again once my teeth had stabilized for financial reasons, and lately my sinuses and knee pain flaired up again after relaxing my dietary restrictions. I went back to Zen, and lo and behold, my sinuses drained a little right away minutes after treatment. Feels so relieving to breathe freely. I was having a lot of anxiety again, and I always feel so much better emotionally and mentally after treatment. As someone who really looks up to healers, she truly inspires me. I always look forward to seeing her. Zen is a true healer and a master at her craft and I am just so grateful to have the privilege to be her client. Thank you, Zen, for being such a caring person! 11.11/10 highly recommend~ Carli S. – 7/20/23
