What does it mean when a tooth is abscessing

What does it mean when a tooth is abscessing

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A tooth abscess is infection or puss that is enclosed in the tissues of the jaw bone at the tip of an infected tooth. Ouch! ChaCha

What does it mean when tooth decay leads to a tooth abscess??

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A dental abscess is a severe tooth infection that first forms around the tip (apex) of the tooth’s root making the tooth ache continuously. Left untreated, it will begin to erode the bone around the tooth and may form a small fistula, or ca…

Does tooth abscess mean I need a root canal?

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The kind of symptoms you are showing, and even without looking at the xrays, I can say, there is fair chance that this tooth has an abcess and abcess can only be treated by RCT. Nerves of the tooth are not dead, but are infected with micro …

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What does it mean when your teeth in the front suddenly don’t meet and shift within a few weeks?

Q: Last spring I started feeling pain on my left and right wisdom teeth area. The pain would last for about 1-2 weeks and go away. Suddenly I noticed that my front teeth (5 top and bottom) were no longer meeting. Seems this transpired within a time span of 3 weeks! I’ve had abscess on my left side and have attempted to keep the area clean and free of bacteria. Currently no abscess is present but the left wisdom tooth still seems raised slightly. A dentist visit is out of the question since currently don’t have medical insurance but would like to know if the bite returns to normal if the wisdom teeth are treated (cleaned or extracted by dentist) or if other treatment will be necessary to return my bite back to it’s original state. I’m hoping!

A: Whether you have the funds or not, you should have this evaluated. Since you noticed the ‘shift’ so quickly it could be that you have something more serious like a cyst. A minor exam should not be that expensive Good Luck

Abscess Tooth – Do they -have- to do a root canal?

Q: I think I have an infection – it’s like a bump (feels bigger than yesterday) on the bottom of the gum, like so close it’s almost on the cheek. The tooth has been hurting for like 3 months but when I told my dentist he did an x-ray and said there wasn’t a cavity. it was really sensitive and he kept putting air and water on it and i would jump out of my chair but he didn’t know what it was- i should have asked him more about it but i was just.. eager to get out of the dentist office.Will they have to do a root canal? Does this turn your tooth black?or does this mean my tooth is like rotten? (can’t see any decay or anything on the outside)I have an appoinment for the dentist tomorrow but I’m calling this morning to see if I can get in today.

A: I had both an abscess and a cavity. Root canal was the only way out then, and took a couple weeks to perform.The dentist basically drills into the tooth, cleans up the infection and either fills it up or fits a new tooth.

Looking for advice/answers about tooth/gum abscess?

Q: Ok, so on Nov. 1 I woke up with a sore tooth, it was kinda sensitive to pressure, the tooth is right next to my front tooth on the right side, and I didn’t really think it was anything, and I thought the soreness would go away by the next day, cause I had experienced it a long time before and that’s what happened, but this time it just got worse, and I started to be in a lot of pain, and it was really bad, so much so that I would cry at times, and it takes really bad pain to make me cry, and it was really hard to go to sleep at night because of the pain, I didn’t really have any good pain medication to take for the pain, so I just had to suffer it out, and by the next week on Nov 10 the right side of my face was all swollen up pretty bad, I tried everything to try and get the swelling down, but nothing worked. I was in total agony and I knew I had a tooth or gum abscess, because I had throbbing and pain in my gum above the tooth, and there was a kinda lump formed in that area too (and I’m no stranger to having a tooth/gum abscess, having lost a back tooth to one in 2008, so I knew what it was right away). The tooth was really bothered by pressure, so once my face got swollen up, I knew it was pretty bad and I had to do something about it, so I went to the doctor, and not the dentist, because that would mean losing the tooth, and I really don’t want to lose a tooth that’s up in front, seriously, because that’s really ugly and noticeable (sorry, I don’t mean to offend anyone, but that’s just my opinion), and I don’t want to be left like that for the rest of my life, I’m only 19 years old =/. If the abscessed tooth were in back, I wouldn’t mind getting it out, I could live with that, but when it’s something in front and something that can be noticed very easily, it’s a whole different story, especially when people start looking at you different. (If I went to the dentist, he would just want to take the tooth out, and that would be my only option, because I don’t have any money for a root canal which would be the only other option besides getting the tooth out, and they are very expensive where I live, like around $700 I think, yes I think that’s expensive, and I don’t have that kind of money, and I don’t have any kind of dental plan that would cover having a root canal done, sadly, which is why I lost a back tooth to an abscess in 2008.)Anyway, I went to the doctor on Nov 12, and he prescribed me some good strong anti biotics to take for 10 days, they’ve brought all the swelling down in my face so far, and the lump that was above my tooth on the gum has gone down a lot, I don’t feel or see it there anymore, the anti biotics seem to have taken care of the infection that was hanging around there, and now it looks like it is healing, (hopefully that’s not too much to hope for =/) I’m not in pain anymore, and the throbbing has gone and my tooth isn’t really bothered by pressure now. My question is, could the abscess be gone for good now that the infection is gone and it seems like the gum is healing, (I know that’s alot to hope for) or is there a possibility that once I’m finished taking the anti biotics for the infection, it could come back twice as worse? If so, is there any way or anything I could do to prevent it from comming back? I’m really scared and worried about this, for real, and I don’t want to have to lose the tooth. Any good answers or advice would be greatly appreciated please.

A: First of all, a root canal is not good for your body… beware!!! look up the dangers of root canal they harbor more bacteria than you want ….if it’s an infection, what you want to do is go and buy hydrogen peroxide, soak your mouth with it, and try to repeat many times per day….in a few days hopefully it will be gone. but the real key to this is colloidal silver, look it up and go to healthfreedomusa.comantibiotics are ineffective if the microorganisms become resistant so the abscess could come back…colloidal silver never gets any bacterial resistancebtw… ur immune system is probably weak….lay off those processed food like cereal and poptarts, fast food, sodas…… stronger immune sys means less infections