Abscess Treatmentin Fairfield County
When a pocket of pus forms around the root of your infected tooth, symptoms such as toothaches, bad breath, and even fevers can leave you feeling anxious and in pain. There’s no need to wait in discomfort. An abscess treatment will drain the pus and prepare your tooth for a root canal or extraction. It’s one of the first steps to getting your tooth back to a thriving, healthy state.
Why should I choose Abscess Treatment?
Dental abscesses cause extreme pain and discomfort, and can cause other oral health problems. In rare cases, they can even be life-threatening, causing conditions like sepsis. This is a reaction to severe infection that can permanently damage your organs. To get relief from your pain and protect your health, you absolutely must get abscess treatment if it’s recommended by your dentist.
CBCT Provides Cutting-Edge Care
To plan the most conservative and precise procedure possible, your doctor uses a Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) scanner to take a 3D x-ray of your mouth, teeth, and jaw.
Sedation Options
Is dental anxiety keeping you from scheduling your procedure? We keep care as soothing as possible by offering a suite of sedation options for a virtually painless experience.
The Benefits of Abscess Treatment
Get Relief From Pain
Dental abscesses can cause some of the worst dental pain imaginable. Your tooth may hurt so badly that you can’t focus on work, school, family, or otherwise living your day-to-day life. Abscess treatment eliminates your pain and lets you get your life back to normal.
Prevent Further Complications
If untreated, a dental abscess will kill your tooth. It could also spread the infection through the rest of your mouth or your body. This can lead to some life-threatening conditions like an infection of your heart, sepsis, and more. Getting abscess treatment protects your oral health and your overall health, too.
Stress-Free Financing
The Abscess Treatment Process
Numbing & Incision
To begin the procedure, your oral surgeon will numb your mouth. Then, they will make an incision in your gums near the abscess. This provides them with access to the abscess.
Draining The Abscess
Your oral surgeon will drain out the pus and infected material from the abscess, and rinse it thoroughly with a saline solution to clean the area and remove the abscess.
Root Canal Or Tooth Extraction
Depending on the extent of the infection, your doctor will either perform a root canal to save your tooth, or extract your tooth. Root canals are preferable, since they save your natural tooth, but extractions may be necessary for very deep infections.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Check out these frequently asked questions, or call us to speak with our team.
Yes. A tooth infection is an infection of the inside of your tooth, and doesn’t always cause an abscess. If you get treatment for an infected tooth in time, you won’t develop an abscess. An abscess occurs when the infection spreads beyond the roots of your teeth, and pus begins forming below the tooth.
In other words, all abscesses are caused by tooth infections. But not all infections result in abscesses. However, whether you think you have an infected tooth or an abscess, you should come to our office for a diagnosis right away.
Not at all. Your mouth will be numb throughout your surgery. And while you may feel some pain as you heal and recover, you won’t feel nearly as much pain as you did before your abscess was treated. Tooth abscesses are one of the most painful dental conditions imaginable, so getting treatment is the best way to get relief from your discomfort.
Most dental insurance plans cover medically necessary procedures, and abscess treatment is a medically necessary procedure. This means that your insurer should cover it up to any applicable limits, based on your plan. However, every insurance policy is different. It’s a good idea to consult with your insurer directly to understand what your policy will cover.
