The flesh on the side of the tooth is swollen, you need to first determine the disease situation after targeted treatment, clinically, you can take anti-inflammatory drugs, local rinsing medicine, root canal treatment, periodontal scraping and other ways to treat. 1. Take anti-inflammatory drugs: teeth on the side of the meat is swollen, considering the possibility of gingivitis or pericoronitis and other problems caused by the general can be taken under the guidance of the doctor metronidazole or cephalosporin antibiotics and other medications to anti-inflammatory treatment to alleviate the problem of swollen teeth. 2. Local rinsing and medication: For the problem of swollen teeth on the edge of the wisdom teeth, you can go to the hospital stomatology department to use hydrogen peroxide and saline to rinse the gingival sulcus around the crown of the wisdom teeth alternately, to clean up the food residues and other irritating factors thoroughly, and then apply 1% composite iodine glycerol solution for anti-inflammatory. 3. Root canal treatment: if the tooth is due to acute periapical abscess caused by swollen teeth on the side, simply taking anti-inflammatory drugs is not obvious, you need to go to the hospital stomatology department in time to carry out root canal treatment in order to completely solve the problem of swollen teeth. 4. Periodontal scraping: general periodontitis in the late stages, due to the existence of deep periodontal pockets, easy to lead to a large number of anaerobic bacteria in the pockets, resulting in periodontal abscess, making the teeth on the edge of the tooth swollen, this situation requires periodontal scraping, periodontal pockets in the deep part of the calculus as well as soft tartar and other foreign matter thoroughly cleaned out, in order to prevent the tooth from repeatedly swollen.