Sore throat and difficulty swallowing after tooth extraction may be caused by accidental injury to the soft tissues of the throat or local inflammation caused by tooth extraction, depending on the situation, need to take anti-infective drugs or surgical treatment.
1. Accidental injury. In the removal of wisdom teeth, due to improper use of dental tines, may varying degrees of damage to the soft tissue of the lateral wall of the throat, causing local breakage contusion, in order to prevent secondary infection, you can take antibiotics amoxicillin treatment.
2. Localized inflammation. After tooth extraction if infection may cause parapharyngeal space infection, early use of antibiotics (metronidazole, roxithromycin), if fluctuating sense of the need for surgical incision and drainage. After tooth extraction if the body’s resistance to decline may also appear at the same time localized inflammation of the throat such as tonsillitis, bacterial infection caused by the application of antibiotics such as cefixime, can also be local gargling chlorhexidine.
After the tooth extraction sore throat swallowing difficulties, need to go to the hospital to check the causes of pain targeted treatment, medication need to follow the doctor’s instructions.