With you there Chickeny P, all i want to eat mid dental crisis is splinters of hard baked crisps (any brand) and chinese take away. So soothing when the bits of rice slip in to the cavity in the gum where your abscess lurks . She truly is a massive poultice, after being applied to the wound. Incidentally I have suffered many a dental crisis and never have i chewed lumps out of my cheeks and gums as a result, that sounds like a J1G thing...Yes, I can't think of anything I'd like to have more in my broken tooth-hole than chunks of cracked black pepper. Cheers Jack absolute ledge.