In March 2020 I began to have a great deal of pain in one tooth, which appeared to be cracked. I found the idea of praying about a dental issue daunting, but I had been a student of Christian Science for a few decades, and the healings I had witnessed and read about in the Christian Science magazines assured me that full dental health could be restored through prayer.
Psalms 34:20 promises, “He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.” I prayed to understand more deeply the spiritual substance of teeth, and pondered Mary Baker Eddy’s statement, “Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468).
For a couple of weeks I prayed on my own, but the pain continued and I was unable to sleep or eat normally. My husband gently recommended I call a Christian Science practitioner for help. When I did reach out for metaphysical support, the pain disappeared immediately, and I was then free to pray about the crack in the tooth without distraction.
