Tooth Infection, (Tooth Root Infection), Dental Abscess, How to treat it!

On this page you will learn why you have a tooth infection , and how you can immediately take steps to start healing it.

Tooth Infection or Dental Abscess, What is it?

A tooth infection is also known as a tooth or root abscess. It is a pus filled swelling. The infection is a result usually of tooth decay. The damage to your tooth is not caused by bacteria, but usually by certain dietary habits that are common in our society today.

Tooth With Infected Pulp

What Causes a Tooth Infection?

People will argue that bacteria is what causes a tooth infection, but in most cases, I do not believe that to be true.

An infection of the pulp within the tooth can only happen when foreign substances, find their way into the tooth. When you eat food, and your tooth enamel is weak or breached due to tooth decay, then the food can penetrate deeply into the inner layers of the tooth. The food or other particles deeply inside the tooth becomes an irritant. The body then creates a tooth infection to push out or collect the irritating substances.

Basically foreign substances, such food in your mouth, can directly enter the once protected tooth pulp tissues.

What Happens to An Infected Tooth?

Somehow, through tooth decay, tooth cracks, or from dead tissue, the interior of the tooth has an unclean substance within it.

The body responds to this unclean substance by trying to remove the substance. Pus is a thin protein-rich fluid that the body uses to trap and contain foreign substances.

The body also uses the tool of inflammation, to contain and dissolve or remove foreign elements in the body.

Imagine an infection from a cut on your arm. This is similar to what is happening in your mouth.

Tooth abscess tip: Eat more butter. Unsalted butter will help reduce inflammation in your body.

Symptoms of a Tooth Infection

• Toothache
  • Severe, continuous pain
  • Gnawing or throbbing pain
  • Sharp or shooting pain
• Pain when chewing
• Sensitivity of the teeth to hot or cold
• Bitter taste in the mouth
• Breath odor 
• Possible fever
• Swollen glands of the neck
• General discomfort, uneasiness, or ill feeling
• Swollen area of the upper or lower jaw -- a very serious symptom

Types of Dental Infections

One type is a periapical abscess, it happens from within the tooth pulp. This is shown in the picture.

The other type, a periodontal abscess, it happens from the surrounding tissues and bones.

You can help get a better gage on understanding if you have a tooth infection, by observing the pain and inflammation response in your body.

How To Heal A Tooth Infection

Healing an infection requires both internal and external treatments. Internally you can change your diet to remove toxic foods. On the surface you help your body clean up the abscessed area with herbal remedies.

Tooth abscess healing tip: Eat less grains. Grains will cause cavities if not properly prepared.

Herbal Remedies For Tooth Infection

Dietary Remedies For Tooth Infection

Details on Healing Tooth Abscess

Tooth Infection Tip, avoid Caffeine: elevates blood sugar levels and has (some) effect on glucose metabolism, endocrine glands and the liver.

Antibiotics and Dental Infection

Amoxicillin is a common antibiotic prescribed for tooth infection. Amoxicillin tends to work the best for treating the abscess, and dentists or doctors will claim that it is only way to cure a tooth infection teeth. My opinion is to avoid antibiotics at all costs unless it is an emergency. Dentist Hal Huggins in Uniformed Consent agrees with this theory stating that the bacteria will colonize elsewhere in a more serious location. Antibiotic poisons the body and forces it to stop it’s pus removal activity.

Gum Abscess

A gum abscess is pretty much the same thing we are talking about here in relation to dental infection. An abscess in your gums is a form of an infection. A gum abscess is not caused by bacteria. Typical causes of gum abscess include anything that affects your body chemistry. Strong stimulating substances. These include, high fructose corn syrup, medications, illegal drugs, WHOLE wheat flour, synthetic sugar's, eating too many sweets. The remedy for the gum abscess is to remove these aggravating causes from your diet.

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