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Underlying Causes of Toothaches

Posted on March 29, 2012 by admin

Everyone gets a toothache every now and then, but do you know what could be causing your pain? Sometimes, it can be a cavity, which is most people’s typical thought, but there are many more issues that could be causing soreness in your mouth. Other things that can cause your teeth to hurt are abscessed teeth, a tooth fracture, a damaged filling, chewing gum, grinding your teeth, allergies, or even infected gums.

Symptoms of toothaches can be pain that’s sharp, throbbing, or constant, having pain when pressure is applied to the tooth, swelling around the tooth, a fever, headache, or even foul tasting drainage from the tooth.

As you can see, a toothache can be more than just annoying discomfort and can also have a more severe cause than many people realize. See your dentist if your tooth hurts for more than a day or two or if the pain is severe. Our goal is to take care of your entire mouth, so that your teeth will not only look beautiful but stay healthy to help you prevent toothaches in the future.

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Facts About Wisdom Teeth

Posted on August 10, 2010 by admin

A large number of people do not have room for wisdom teeth. This may be the result of an evolutionary change because our diet has changed over thousands of years and we don’t eat as many greens and nuts and our jaws are not as big as they used to be. We are seeing more and more people in the past few generations did not even form some of their wisdom teeth. Those who do have wisdom teeth and don’t have room for them will get impacted teeth. When a tooth becomes impacted it can do damage to the tooth in front of it.

Depending on how it’s sitting in the jaw bone(or what happens in most cases) the wisdom tooth will come part way out of the jaw and then the gum tissue surrounding the enamel covered crown of the tooth can’t adhere to the enamel and a pocket forms. Food can get trapped in the pocket and cause an infection caused periocornitis. This infection causes swelling and pus from around the wisdom tooth that will come and go but become more frequent and severe over time. Quite often it is necessary to remove those wisdom teeth and, in many cases, it is a surgical procedure to extract the tooth.

In our office, we provide IV sedation so that the patient isn’t aware of the treatment while it is going on, and will recover better than with just using a local anesthetic. Taking out wisdom teeth is sometimes an elective thing but it is usually best to do it when the patient is younger before the bone becomes dense. Early extraction also gives less likelihood of the wisdom teeth causing damage to the other teeth, caused by the patient’s bite or resorption of the tooth in front of it. If extraction of wisdom teeth is ignored and it is growing into the molar in front of it, the patient may get almost like decay but its resorption similar to the resorption you get when permanent teeth come under the baby teeth and resorp the roots. Sometimes if you ignore it, you will end up losing multiple teeth: the wisdom tooth and the one in front of it, and then the one above it because it doesn’t have a tooth to function against. For these reasons, extraction of wisdom teeth is an important thing to evaluate at an early stage.

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