How to distinguish periodontitis or gum swelling

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In fact, there are many reasons for toothache, the most common is periodontitis, but it is not the case of gingival swelling that is the problem of periodontitis. Many people will blindly take some anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs when they have toothache and gingival swelling. In fact, this is wrong. Taking drugs blindly will not only fail to get therapeutic effect, but also cause other adverse effects on the body How to distinguish periodontitis from gingival swelling? Now let's talk about it.

How to distinguish periodontitis or gum swelling

First: the problem of tooth swelling will not appear loose teeth, but suffering from periodontitis will appear tooth activity, or teeth loose, shaking when there is pain, feel like to fall off, when there are these problems must be compared to avoid wrong treatment.

Second: Periodontitis will appear gingival inflammation, and even the whole periodontal tissue will appear inflammation, pain, swelling, and even accompanied by abscess problems, but only the patients with gingival swelling, only gingival redness, tooth height, teeth can't close, and fire pressure is related..

Third: Patients with periodontitis will grow plaque on the teeth, calculus, gum swelling, and even lead to plaque accumulation aggravation, which will spread downward from the gum, but tooth swelling is just a sign of simple gum swelling, there is no difference for teeth.

matters needing attention

When the teeth have pain, swelling, it is recommended to go to the hospital as soon as possible to do a dental examination, symptomatic treatment, especially in patients with frequent pain, more can not blindly take pain medicine, the cause of the disease cure symptoms can disappear.