The wisdom tooth grows and the gum hurts

The pain that occurs during the growth of the wisdom tooth, can hardly be compared with something. After experiencing these feelings one day, they can not be forgotten. When the wisdom tooth grows, the gums, neck, cheeks, head and ears also ache. And what is most unpleasant, all these phenomena are considered absolutely normal.

Why does the gum hurt where the wisdom tooth is?

Painful sensations are explained very simply. First, the wisdom tooth comes out on the surface already in adulthood, when the jaw bone is fully formed. Secondly, in his place has never had a milk tooth. Therefore the wisdom tooth can be considered a kind of pioneer, the path of which is always complex.

Erection is a rather protracted process. In some people, eight can grow for several years. Pain in the gum and inflammation then disappear, then reappear.

To hurt the gum, when the wisdom tooth comes down, maybe because of such problems:

  1. Pericoronaritis is a widespread phenomenon. Approaching the surface of the gum, the wisdom tooth remains covered with a so-called hood - a mucous tissue. When the latter becomes inflamed, pericoronaritis is diagnosed. Often the inflammatory process is accompanied by accumulation of pus.
  2. Periodontitis develops because the wisdom tooth can grow crooked, which makes it very difficult to clean it.
  3. With severe pain and gum disease, the growth of the wisdom tooth is accompanied by retinning or hardening. In this case, the eight either does not exit the jawbone or remains deep in the gum.
  4. Dystopy is the wrong arrangement of the wisdom tooth. It can press on adjacent teeth, gums or mucous cheeks, causing ulcers, micro-traumas.
  5. Inflammation, redness and tenderness of the gums are caused by falling into the channel, through which the wisdom tooth makes its way to the surface, infection.
  6. Even in the tooth, which has just appeared from the gum, caries can form. And this problem, as you know, can not pass unnoticed.

Pain in the gums during the eruption of wisdom tooth is often accompanied by an unpleasant odor from the mouth, an increase in temperature, a general weakness. Some people need hospitalization to return to normal life. Fortunately, such cases are a rarity.

What if the gum is very painful near the wisdom tooth?

First and foremost, the swollen gum during the eruption of the wisdom tooth should never be warmed. Warming up the inflammation, you can only hurt yourself. Even if the pain goes away for a while, it will soon return with new attendant problems.

The best and safest means are:

  1. From the pain promptly rescue antiseptics. A simple and affordable medicine is a light rinse solution with soda and salt.
  2. Many experts recommend that you save yourself with adhesive gels for gums.
  3. For a while to anesthetize the gum will help a cold compress on the cheek.
  4. A pleasant taste and an effective remedy is a decoction of marigold, sage and chamomile.
  5. An excellent analgesic rinse is obtained from the bark of the oak bark.

Patients with acute pain can take painkillers. Excellent help:

If even after applying all the above described gum means, where the wisdom tooth grows, continues to hurt, you should consult a dentist. It is possible that the cause of pain in the pericoronary, which can only be handled surgically. Part of the skin that closes the tooth is cut off, after which the inflammation quickly subsides, and the pain subsides. In the most severe cases, the wisdom tooth is removed.