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Cavity in my wisdom teeth
Hi,
There is cavity in my wisdom teeth. It's was not paning in till day before yesterday but now I am not even able to open my mouth because of pain in my jaw due to this.
What should I do please suggest.
Thanks.
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Wisdom tooth doesn't have much role in chewing , in 90%people goes for removal(extraction) in sometime. In your case you have to start with antibiotics for 3 to 5 days so mouth opening will improve then go for extraction .
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Do Hot saline gargles .mouth opening will improve a bit.
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Pain in wisdom tooth causing difficulty in mouthopening...infection frm tooth has spread..get a course of antibiotics & the get it surgically extracted frm an oral & maxillofacial surgeon..
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Any dentist mostly suggests patient to save the tooth by RCT but in case of wisdom tooth,the treatment changes and we advise patient to get it extracted b3cause most of the times wisdom tooth has no role in chewing so it depends on ur case that if u don't chew from That side plz get it removed and if you chew from the wisdom tooth then plz get it saved
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Dr. Shilpi Gupta
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Gurgaon
The choice of treatment for wisdom tooth is extraction if it’s not helping in chewing
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