“牙痛不是病,痛起来要人命”是一句民间流传甚广的俗语。这一观念的形成有其深刻的历史原因。解放前,人们生活水平低,长期缺医少药,有病了,尤其象牙疼这种病,一般不危及生命,总是忍一下过去算了,很少去就诊,实在疼得 “Toothache is not a disease, it hurts to life” is a folk saying goes. The formation of this concept has its profound historical reasons. Before the liberation, people's living standards were low, lack of medical long-term lack of medicine, sick, especially the ivory pain of this disease, generally do not endanger life, always bear to the past forget, rarely go to the clinic, it hurts