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human
ELI5: How did people deal with painful teeth issues like Wisdom teeth before modern dentistry?

Just had a wisdom tooth removed yesterday after about 16 hours of excruciating pain from it coming in I was able too get it removed and feel fine a day after. 

All I could think of while I was in pain though was how could people back in the day before modern dentistry deal with that. If I had too go any longer I could definitely see suicide as an only relief from the pain.
gpt
Well before modern dentistry people generally had room in their mouths in the form of missing teeth. Aside from that, they either got you drunk and took them out or, more likely, left them in and you died of infection.