Swollen and inflamed gums should be for different causes, through the local rinsing medicine, scaling and cleaning, filling cavities, root canal treatment and other ways to treat, it is best to go to a professional dentist.
1. Local rinsing and medication: Gums are swollen and painful considering the possibility of gingivitis, you can go to the hospital stomatology local use of hydrogen peroxide and saline to rinse the gums, and then placed in the gingival sulcus composite iodine glycerin to control gum inflammation, relieve the symptoms of swelling and pain.
2. Scaling and cleaning: swollen and painful gums may also be due to plaque and plaque and other irritants caused by gums, periodontal tissue inflammation, resulting in gum pain, you can use ultrasonic scaling and scraping to remove plaque and other irritants, thereby reducing gum inflammation.
3. Filling cavities: inflammation of the gums may also be tooth decay cavities, resulting in food impaction caused by gingivitis, you need to go to the hospital stomatology department for examination after the removal of decayed tooth tissue, and the use of dental fillings to fill the cavities, thus improving the phenomenon of swollen and painful gums.
4. Root canal treatment: after tooth decay reaches a certain degree, the infected material enters the pulp cavity and progresses to the periapical tissues along the direction of the root canal, thus leading to periapical inflammation, and the inflammatory material accumulates to a certain degree and a chronic periapical abscess may appear, which leads to the phenomenon of swollen and painful gums, and the need for root canal treatment of the tooth or even the extraction of the affected tooth in order to be cured completely.