What complications may toothache cause

The most common symptom of toothache is pain, and the pain is also quite intense. For this reason, many people say that "toothache is not a disease, but it can be fatal." Of course, in addition to pain, toothache can also bring various complications to patients, such as temporomandibular joint disorder, cerebral thrombosis, stroke, heart disease and pneumonia. So if you have toothache, you must treat it as soon as possible.

1. Pathological causes

The first type is tooth and pulp lesions. As the caries develops to a deeper level, it will cause stimulating pain such as cold and heat. If it is not treated at this time, it will further develop into pulpitis and cause spontaneous pain. If you do not go to the hospital for treatment at this stage, you will not be able to sleep at night due to the pain! After the acute inflammatory period, the pain symptoms will ease until they disappear, but don't think that the inflammation will disappear. In fact, the inflammation not only erodes the pulp inside the tooth but also develops to the periodontal tissue. The inflammation penetrates into the alveolar bone and causes alveolar bone absorption, reaches the gums to form fistulas, and white pus flows out of them. At this time, you should go to the hospital for more complex treatment.

The second type is caused by periodontal disease. Common causes include gingivitis and pericoronitis caused by food impaction. In this case, you only need to clean out the impacted food and apply anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and gum soothing medications.

2. Main symptoms

Pain is the main symptom, which is severe and unbearable. The nature of the pain has the following characteristics:

Spontaneous pain, paroxysmal aggravation, intermittent attack, severe pain in the affected tooth without any external stimulation, short pain attack time and long relief time in the early stage, as the disease progresses, the pain attack time is long and the relief time is short in the late stage, and finally there is no relief period;

The pain is more severe at night than during the day, especially when lying flat. In the early stage, both cold and hot stimulation can cause the pain to worsen. In the late stage, cold stimulation not only does not stimulate pain, but temporarily relieves the pain. Therefore, it is common for patients to hold cold water in their mouths or breathe cold air to relieve pain.

3. Complications

The harm of dental diseases actually goes far beyond the teeth themselves, but is related to important functions such as the heart, brain, and lungs, and has therefore become an important cause of certain diseases with extremely high mortality rates. Ignoring dental disease can easily lead to stroke. Patients with periodontal disease are prone to carotid artery hypertrophy, which is one of the most dangerous factors for cerebral thrombosis. In the investigation and research, it was found that people with severe periodontal disease had the thickest plaques that affected arterial blood flow. People with dental disease are twice as likely to develop heart disease. Oral hygiene is also a disease prevention measure that cannot be ignored for preventing pneumonia in the elderly.

In addition, tooth extraction may also cause a variety of complications, such as difficulty chewing. Even if dentures are installed, their stability is poor, the chewing function will also decrease, and temporomandibular joint disorder syndrome will occur.