Does need before plucking a tooth reduce inflammation?
Teeth, but we enjoy delicious indispensable “weapons”, but many people often suffer from a variety of dental problems.
Clinically, we often encounter this patient, there is inflammation around a tooth, the tooth needs to be removed as the cause of the tooth, but due to infection, reluctant to pull out or the doctor does not pull out, some even a few months, both pain and left serious sequelae and endanger life.
So, how to treat the lesion tooth in this inflammatory area?
In fact, the best treatment is undoubtedly to actively control inflammation, that is to say, as soon as possible, appropriate methods should be taken to remove the lesion teeth as early as possible, remove the diseased tissue to eliminate the source of infection, reduce tissue damage, protect healthy tissue, and promote its recovery.
In general, the removal of the focal tooth should be determined according to the patient’s general condition (such as the presence or absence of sepsis) and the degree of surgical difficulty (the size of the wound).
If the patient’s general condition is poor or the operation is complicated and the injury is large, the tooth extraction can aggravate or spread the inflammation, and the tooth extraction should be postponed.
On the contrary, if the patient’s general condition is good and the surgical injury is small, the removal of the focal tooth under the effective control of antibiotics at this time is conducive to pus drainage, so that the severe pain can be alleviated quickly, and the inflammation can be controlled and improved or cured quickly.
Generally speaking, the diseased tooth itself is a focal point of infection, a source of inflammation, and a base for bacterial culture.
Through the infiltration of inflammatory cells, the local capillaries will be congested and the pain will be aggravated.
If we can seize the opportunity of treatment, improve the anesthesia and surgical methods, timely extraction of the lesion teeth which can not be saved, reduce the local tissue pressure and toxic reaction, it will help to limit inflammation, shorten the course of disease and reduce the occurrence of complications.
If we overconsider the development stage of inflammation and think that tooth extraction is painful and inappropriate during acute inflammation, the inflammation will continue to develop, destroy the surrounding tissues, form fistulas in the mouth and skin, and even form disseminated osteomyelitis and sepsis, which will delay the disease and even threaten life.
At the same time, even if the use of a large number of sensitive antimicrobial drugs, but because the lesion did not go, can only control the acute inflammation, so that it becomes chronic.
When resistance is reduced, the infection will flare up again.
In this way, one by one, drug damage to the liver and kidney can occur, or due to long-term chronic irritation, some even end up with gum cancer around the age of 50.
