A loose tooth may affect the surrounding teeth and needs to be treated promptly to avoid serious consequences.
If the looseness of a tooth exceeds its physiological mobility, and the articulation relationship with the surrounding teeth changes, it may lead to a wider gap between the teeth, and the gap between the teeth is easily blocked by food when eating.
This situation is not cleaned in time, and in the long term can lead to caries in the neighboring teeth. And also easy to make plaque and calculus accumulation in the periodontium, gingivitis, periodontitis and other diseases.
Therefore, the phenomenon of loose teeth, should be timely to the hospital stomatology consultation, under the guidance of the doctor to clarify the cause of the disease and symptomatic treatment, including scaling, root canal treatment, arch splint fixation and so on.