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Swelling and severe pain in and around the gum in the lower jaw beside a partially erupted wisdom tooth.
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When food lodgement  occurs around a partially erupted last molar infection occurs and lead to pain, medically a condition known as pericoronitis.
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don't do any extraoral warm foamentation.
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