Pain is a subjective feeling. This means that you can never say that one person is just over reacting to it because you don’t know what it is like for them. It’s just like with our favorite food; your opinion about it differs from someone who thinks that it is just ordinary. So when one person says that something is painful, you should not take it for granted. Just like with tooth ache, some people try to tolerate the pain as much as they could before they even take pain medications while some would immediately go to a dentist to get rid of it. But in the middle of the night who are you going to call for help? Good things there are already dentists who are practicing emergency dentistry. They are open 24 hours a day 7 days a week to give you service with your aching tooth. You can find them as a team practicing in a clinic or as a sole dentist practicing on his own.