For gum swelling and pain can take pain medication, common to the first stage of pain to the main antipyretic and analgesic drugs, such as aspirin, ibuprofen, acetaminophen, etc., but it must be noted that for gum swelling and pain, taking pain medication method is to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, it is impossible to treat the disease at the root. If you want to treat the root cause of gum swelling and pain, you need to go to a professional dentistry department to check the cause of the disease, there are two common clinical diseases: 1) odontogenic alveolar abscess; 2) periodontal abscess. Both diseases are caused by infection, but to treat them both require dentistry. Alveolar abscess is caused by the further development of apical inflammation of the tooth, which causes swelling and pain in the gums, and it is necessary to perform root canal treatment for the tooth, combined with incision and drainage of the surrounding abscess, both of which are necessary for the corresponding alveolar abscess to be better resolved. In addition to the drainage of periodontal abscesses, basic periodontal treatment should also be performed to remove plaque and calculus from the periodontium, so that the periodontal abscesses can be better resolved.