The cheek is the biting muscle area, unilateral pain in the biting muscle area may be temporomandibular joint disorder disease, mumps or wisdom teeth pericoronitis, usually will not be self-healing, and need to be timely targeted treatment.
1. Temporomandibular joint disorder. Temporomandibular joint disorder can be seen in the side of chewing long-term teeth grinding caused by chewing muscle pain or arthropathy, will not be self-healing, need to carry out local hot and humid compresses, cold compresses, physiotherapy or take anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs for treatment.
2. Mumps. When the body’s immunity is reduced or infected with germs, it may cause mumps, swelling and pain in the biting muscle area, which will not be cured without treatment. Ribavirin is used to treat viral infections, and cefuroxime sodium injection is used to treat bacterial infections with antimicrobial therapy.
3. Wisdom tooth pericoronitis. One side of the wisdom tooth obstruction will trigger the surrounding gums red, swollen and painful, serious can lead to buccal swelling, can not be self-healing, without treatment will be repeated inflammation and swelling, the need to use hydrogen peroxide to rinse the gums, local iodine glycerin medication for the later wisdom tooth extraction.
Any pain in any part of the mouth, it is recommended to consult a doctor to find out the cause of early treatment to avoid aggravation of the symptoms.