If a toothache constantly starts to bother and increases when chewing food, or when there is a strong pressure on the tooth, and then the mucous membrane swells, the cheek swells from the side where the tooth hurts - this is flux or otherwise - odontogenic periostitis.
Dental flux is a complicated type of caries, which is the result of a person’s inattentive attitude to the health of teeth and non-attendance of a doctor. This is quite a serious disease, and it is treated at some stages very hard.
At home, getting rid of the flux is hard, you can only shrink the tumor. If you do self-treatment, you can come to a serious complication of purulent infection. Therefore, at the first signs of inflammation of the gums, an urgent need to contact your dentist.
Types of flux
It is acute and chronic.
Acute passes with fever and great soreness in the jaw. Pain can give to the neck, as it most often is pulsating. Also characteristic a sign of flux can: the health state will sharply worsen, the feverish state, the aching headache and a swelling of a cheek will appear.
With chronic flux acute pain subsides and becomes aching. The temperature can rise no higher than 38.5 degrees. Edema of the cheek may increase up to the temple, or, conversely, descend, capturing the neck. Very often, a sick person may experience discomfort when swallowing or talking.
Symptoms
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The appearance of toothache when you press on the tooth, which is acute. - A purulent lump appears on the gum near the diseased tooth.
- Swelling cheek.
- The temperature rises.
Causes of flux
Suppuration usually occurs with any infectionwhich can develop in such situations:
- The neglected form of caries of the tooth root (pulpit).
- When inflammation of the gum pocket is a recess between the gum and the tooth.
- During treatment, an infection was reported.
- Root canals were not fully sealed.
- The presence of infectious diseases in the body - sore throats, furunculosis and others.
Any injury or injury.
How to treat?
Odontogenic periostitis is a serious disease and requires timely diagnosis and treatment, otherwise the consequences could be dire. If time does not take action, then can get blood poisoningthat would be fatal.
Treatment also depends on the form of inflammation, the location of the tooth and the location of the flux.
Antibiotics, including antibacterial drugs with anti-inflammatory action. Acceptance of antibiotics, according to doctors with flux necessarily. They will stop the purulent process in the body and prevent infections from spreading further.
Apply treatment with ointments, rinsing, lotions and compresses. The doctor prescribes rinsing the mouth with a medicine - chlorhexidine, which destroys almost all types of bacteria and has anti-inflammatory properties. Rinse need three to four times a day, can be used for adults and children. You can get rid of the abscess with the stomatofit ointment, and with a mixture of streptocid and ichthyol ointment, from the tumor that has formed around the tooth.
There are also surgical methods to get rid of this ailment. Many doctors advise to use some of them, but only after visiting the dentist. If you make a cut, you can not drink aspirin, as this may cause bleeding.
If the pus penetrates the muscles of the face to the neck, and then descends to the internal organs, then phlegmon may occur - Spilled purulent inflammation. This can be a serious illness and deadly.
We need to remember some recommendations, in case if flux appears:
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You can not set yourself warming compresses, they help spread pus and cause the development of severe complications. - Yourselves do not need to do any dressings.
- Do not drink any antibiotics without the advice of a doctor, as the wrong medicine can slow down the process and make the patient's condition worse.
- Do not use painkillers before going to the doctor.
Flux treatment can be carried out by folk methods, but only in such cases:
- At the initial stage of the disease, when there is no suppuration.
- When the inflammatory process subsides.
- When is the joint reception of antibacterial drugs.
- When reducing pain, when the disease passes without complications.
- When the chronic form of tooth flux.
How to avoid illness
The most important prevention of this disease is time to treat teeth. And first of all it is necessary to finish the bad teeth to the end. In order not to start caries, you need to visit the dentist twice a year to conduct a routine inspection. It is also necessary to avoid hypothermia of the whole organism, so that no inflammatory processes occur. Strengthen immunity and daily monitor the purity of the oral cavity.
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