Why do wisdom teeth hurt? What should I do?

For the pain caused by wisdom teeth, first of all, you should distinguish what kind of cause of pain, generally for wisdom teeth, there are two causes, one is wisdom teeth caries, caused by pulpitis caused by pain, and one is wisdom teeth peri-coronary formation of peri-coronary inflammation caused by pain. Relatively speaking, pulpitis is less common, for the pain caused by pulpitis, to check the specific location of the wisdom tooth, if the position of the wisdom tooth is more positive and have a normal occlusion, you can consider directly open pulp root canal treatment, but if the wisdom tooth itself is tilted eruption or ectopic eruption, then in this case, you can consider the wisdom tooth is not painful period of time to directly remove the wisdom tooth. There is also a clinical situation is the wisdom tooth pain caused by pericoronitis, which is very common in the clinic, the main reason is due to the poor position of the wisdom tooth eruption, the formation of ectopic eruption, this ectopic eruption of wisdom teeth is easy to form a gap in the peri-coronary space and the retention of bacteria, which will form an inflammation over time, the inflammation, said that the best treatment is the local application of hydrogen peroxide combined with saline for Alternate rinsing, so that local bacteria and pus to get better drainage, for the system, can be symptomatic application of antibiotics, usually cephalosporin combined with nitroimidazole to control infection, do not let the infection spread. For wisdom teeth pericoronitis, it is also recommended to remove wisdom teeth in the period of no pain, so as to cure the disease. The first two are clinically more commonly used and the best way to deal with it, if the patient does not have the conditions to the hospital in a timely manner, then only to take some of the pain medication, usually to the first order of pain antipyretic and analgesic drugs based on the first order of pain, common aspirin, ibuprofen and so on.