What are the symptoms of wisdom tooth inflammation?

Wisdom teeth are a relatively important component of people's teeth. They bear most of the force during chewing. Therefore, long-term unhealthy eating habits will harm the health of wisdom teeth and cause inflammation and damage to wisdom teeth. And it is very difficult to repair wisdom teeth. Let’s take a look at the symptoms of wisdom tooth inflammation. How to treat it?

symptom

Pericoronitis of wisdom teeth often occurs in adolescents aged 18 to 25 years old, more commonly in the mandible, and can be divided into acute and chronic. Clinically, it often presents in the form of acute inflammation. In the early stages of acute inflammation, patients only feel slight swelling and discomfort in the affected area, and the pain worsens when chewing, swallowing, or opening their mouths. If the disease continues to progress, local spontaneous throbbing pain may occur and radiate to the head and face on the same side. When inflammation invades the masticatory muscles, it can cause varying degrees of mouth opening restriction. Examination shows that the gingival flaps are red, swollen and eroded, with obvious tenderness, and pus may overflow when the gingival pockets are pressed. Symptoms such as chills, fever, headache, and constipation may occur to varying degrees throughout the body. Chronic pericoronitis of wisdom teeth usually has no obvious clinical symptoms, only slight tenderness and discomfort in the affected area. When resistance decreases, acute attacks often occur. Further aggravation of acute pericoronitis may cause infection of adjacent tissues, organs or fascial spaces.

treat:

1. Systemic treatment

Depending on the condition, antibacterial drugs or Chinese herbal medicines for internal use that clear heat and detoxify are used for treatment.

2. Local treatment

Local treatment of pericoronitis of wisdom teeth is important. The blind bag can be flushed with 1% to 3% hydrogen peroxide solution, normal saline or other sterile solution every day, and then 3% iodine glycerol can be injected. Also give gargle with compound borax solution or furacillin solution several times a day. In the early stages, local physical therapy and external application of Chinese herbal medicine can also be used to help absorb inflammation. Acupuncture therapy can relieve pain and improve mouth opening. If abscess cavity is formed, it can be incised and drained.

3. Treatment of affected teeth

After the acute inflammation subsides, the diseased tooth should be further treated to prevent recurrence. If the teeth are in the correct position, can erupt normally, and have opposing teeth to perform chewing functions, a pericoronal gingival flap wedge resection can be performed; otherwise, the teeth should be extracted.