Can an infected tooth affect other teeth?
Can an infected tooth affect other teeth?
A tooth abscess can be located inside your tooth, your tooth root, or between your tooth and its gum. Once an abscess ruptures, bacteria from a tooth infection can spread and damage surrounding bone, teeth, and move to other parts of the body including your bloodstream.
Can a tooth infection spread in your mouth?
If the abscess ruptures, the pain may decrease significantly — but you still need dental treatment. If the abscess doesn’t drain, the infection may spread to your jaw and to other areas of your head and neck. You might even develop sepsis — a life-threatening infection that spreads throughout your body.
Can a tooth infection harm you?
An abscessed tooth can cause very serious consequences including tooth loss, jaw bone damage, sinus involvement, brain infection, heart complications and even death.
How does an oral infection affect your teeth?
Periodontal disease develops when an oral infection spreads below the gumline to affect the bone and supporting tissues. Gums start to recede from the teeth, and pockets form, leading to further inflammation and bone loss so teeth can loosen.
Can a tooth infection spread to the face?
Sepsis: A serious medical condition in which the immune system severely overreacts to an infection in the blood. Without treatment, a tooth infection can spread to the face and neck. Severe infections may even reach more distant parts of the body.
What kind of infections can you get in your mouth?
Oral bacteria can cause viruses, tooth decay, gum disease and other common mouth infections in both children and adults.
What are the risks of not treating a tooth infection?
Risks of not treating a tooth infection promptly: Sepsis (a serious medical condition where the immune system overreacts to a blood infection) Parapharyngeal abscess (abscess at the back of the mouth) Abscesses can burst on their own, and the pain may diminish.
Periodontal disease develops when an oral infection spreads below the gumline to affect the bone and supporting tissues. Gums start to recede from the teeth, and pockets form, leading to further inflammation and bone loss so teeth can loosen.
Oral bacteria can cause viruses, tooth decay, gum disease and other common mouth infections in both children and adults.
Sepsis: A serious medical condition in which the immune system severely overreacts to an infection in the blood. Without treatment, a tooth infection can spread to the face and neck. Severe infections may even reach more distant parts of the body.
What is an infection of the bone around the tooth?
Osteomyelitis: An infection of the bone surrounding the tooth. Cavernous sinus thrombosis: An infection of the blood vessels within the sinuses.