The most common explanation for why a patient elects to have a tooth extracted is the need to be relieved of severe pain, immediately, and with relatively minimal costs when compared to alternative forms of dental treatment.
Usually, alternative methods of treatment for providing pain relief to the patient and restoration of the tooth are available. Often these options may require multiple treatment appointments, time off work and perhaps significantly higher treatment costs. All are factors too be considered and often are the primary reasons the patient elects to have a tooth extracted even though it may be treatable.
Severe dental pain can be described by patients in a variety of ways -- pain on biting, pain to hot or cold, waking pain during night time sleeping and lingering pain after the onset of a hot or cold stimulus, throbbing pain or pulsing pain shortly after eating; all are descriptions of your dental pain which will assist your dentist in diagnosing the origin and nature of your dental pain. Jaw pain may even be referred from other areas of your body and can indicate a more serious systemic health condition. The nature of your dental pain provides valuable information leading to the diagnosis and treatment options you have available to you.
It is also helpful for you to document when you are experiencing tooth pain and its location. This type of information will help in providing the best description of the symptoms you are having and over what time frame days, week or months and will expedite you examination appointment and discussion regarding the best course of treatment.
In conclusion, “Severe Dental Pain” has different meanings to each of us and all descriptions are valid. However, your description of the symptoms you are having may aid in an efficient diagnosis, and certainly will provide you and your dentist with the best information for making and informed decision as to the best treatment option for handling your dental emergency before concluding that you tooth should be extracted.
Today tooth extraction makes sense when finances are a major consideration and the various treatment alternatives are simply cost prohibitive. Many times the tooth prognosis is poor and cannot easily be repaired due to extensive decay, extensive loss of bone around the tooth from periodontal disease and excessive mobility.
Finally and perhaps the most significant reasons for tooth extractions is when the oral diagnosis for tooth is considered to be detrimental to the patients Oral/Systemic Health. These conditions would include a dental abscess, infected wisdom teeth, impacted wisdom teeth, infected tooth roots, teeth associated with cysts, tumors or other systemic health conditions which would warrant its removal to avoid further health complications. Dental Infections are serious and can be life threatening.
Patients should be seen as early as possible to avoid more serious complications arising from these types of situations, and early intervention will provide professional management and most likely lead to early pain relief and more favorable treatment result. Ignoring your bodies symptoms most often leads to unfavorable dental and systemic health consequences.
After a professional dental evaluation, oral diagnosis and consulting with you dentist, it may be that extraction of the tooth is a viable alternative the best alternative for you to avoid undesirable consequences.
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Joseph C Ardizzone DDS
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