Gums swollen and painful to eat the root, is not to play a therapeutic role, the need for symptomatic use of anti-inflammatory drugs, local medicine, scaling and cleaning, root canal treatment and other ways of treatment in order to play a role.
1. The use of anti-inflammatory drugs: swollen and painful gums are generally due to gingivitis, periodontitis and other diseases, and the root only has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, cooling the blood and pharynx, and does not have anti-inflammatory effect, so the symptoms of swollen and painful gums, you need to use metronidazole tablets or cephradine capsules and other drugs under the guidance of the doctor’s professional to carry out the treatment.
2. Local medication: If the gums of the wisdom teeth are swollen and painful, it is considered that the growth of the wisdom teeth may not be in the right position to form a blind pocket, resulting in food debris and plaque and other irritants embedded in the wisdom teeth caused by peri-coronitis, you can go to the hospital to use hydrogen peroxide and saline solution for rinsing, and in the gingival sulcus placed in the composite iodine-glycerine cotton twists for anti-inflammatory and pain relief.
3. Scaling and Cleaning: Generally, if the gums are swollen and painful due to periodontitis caused by excessive accumulation of dental calculus, it is necessary to go to the periodontist to use ultrasonic scaling or scraping device to completely eliminate the irritating factors such as dental calculus, so as to alleviate the phenomenon of swollen and painful gums.
4. Root canal treatment: swollen and painful gums may also be caused by chronic periapical abscesses, which need to be photographed and analyzed by the doctor after the examination of apical films to improve the root canal treatment, thoroughly remove the infected material in the root canal, and to achieve anti-inflammatory and pain relief effect.
It is recommended to consult a doctor in time to identify the cause of the toothache, and to use the medication as prescribed by the doctor.