Rinsing the mouth with salt water for toothache can serve to clean the mouth and may have some relief for the pain. Toothache is just a symptom, should be actively treated for the cause, the common causes of dental caries, endodontitis, apical periodontitis, wisdom teeth pericoronitis.
1. Dental caries: is due to bacterial infection and other factors leading to the destruction of the hard tissues of the tooth, hot, cold, sour and sweet stimuli may lead to toothache.
You should promptly remove the decayed material, prepare the cavity shape, disinfect it, and then treat it with filling to relieve the pain.
2. Pulpitis: It is often formed by the further development of deep caries, which will lead to spontaneous and paroxysmal tooth pain, and the pain is aggravated at night.
Local anesthesia can be used to remove the decayed material and open the pulp to decompress and relieve the pain. At the same time oral ibuprofen and other analgesic drugs.
3. Wisdom tooth pericoronitis: Inflammation of the tissues around the crown of the wisdom teeth in the process of eruption can also lead to symptoms of toothache.
In the acute stage, you can use saline or hydrogen peroxide to rinse the blind pocket, and then inject iodine glycerin, tincture of iodine and other drugs into the blind pocket, which has a cleaning, anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect; abscesses should be incised and drained; and wisdom teeth should be extracted after the inflammation subsides.
Toothache is recommended to go to the hospital for examination, treatment under the guidance of the doctor, to avoid the abuse of their own medicine.