Wisdom teeth with a piece of soft and painful flesh are usually caused by inflammation of the soft tissues around the crown of the tooth when the eruption of the wisdom tooth is incomplete or blocked, which is usually called pericoronitis of the wisdom tooth.
Wisdom tooth eruption is often lack of sufficient position and easy to form an obstruction, wisdom tooth eruption is blocked, part of the crown is covered by the free gingival part of the crown and gingival flap between the formation of a blind pocket, the blind pocket is often food debris and bacterial residue, that is, manifested as a piece of flesh on top of the wisdom tooth is soft and painful.
This local condition is easy for bacteria to grow and multiply, when cold, fatigue or other reasons lead to a decline in the body’s resistance, or due to local trauma, such as the bite of the opposite jaw teeth and other factors, can be induced by the wisdom teeth pericoronitis, with systemic triggers or a history of recurrent episodes.
This condition can be carried out by rinsing the blind pouch with hydrogen peroxide solution, saline or other sterilized solutions, followed by the use of iodized glycerin dotted into the blind pouch. Additional rinses such as compounded borax solution or furacilin solution can be used.
For management of the affected tooth, pericoronary gingivectomy or wisdom tooth extraction is feasible.