You can use clove oil for now for the pain-put a drop on a q-tip and apply
directly to the broken part.  It's both a powerful antiseptic and anesthetic
as well.  Clove oil is in almost everything dentists use-that's what you
smell when you go into a dentists office.
 
Don't be put off by the horrid sounding warnings if you see them on the vial
of clove oil-when I bought it I thought they handed me 'artificial' oil the
warning was so dire!  After doing some reading I found out that cloves are
25% oil, so I don't even know if 'fake' clove oil is something companies
would bother with.
 
I took Katie to a nearby veterinary dentist and the cost to have her broken
tooth surgically removed was around $150 (don't have the receipt handy), the
estimate was around $150-200.
 
You can run her regular food thru a blender and add water to make mush.
Offer her that along with her regular food and let her decide.  Katie kept
eating fine even when her tooth was infected-I only found out when I picked
her up and went to clean her ears and she winced!  So appitite is not
necessarily an indicator that everything is OK.  Don't use asprin (it thins
the blood and she'll bleed more if she goes for surgery) or
tylenol/acetominiphin-may cause liver damage.
 
Try calling around to different area vets to see if there is a veterinary
dentist in your area.
 
HTH,
Ilena Ayala=
[Posted in FML issue 2373]