Wisdom tooth pericoronitis face swelling and hard lumps need to be treated locally, medically or surgically according to medical advice.
1. Local treatment: The purpose of local treatment is mainly to clean and disinfect the wound. The doctor will use hydrogen peroxide solution or saline to rinse the blind pocket, which can remove the food residues and inflammatory secretions stored in the blind pocket.
2. Medication: The main purpose of medication is to fight infection. Wisdom tooth pericoronitis is mostly caused by the combination of bacterial infection, so in the causative treatment can be oral amoxicillin capsules, metronidazole tablets, or through the infusion of penicillin sodium, levofloxacin injection and other antibiotics for anti-infection treatment;
3. Surgical treatment: If the phenomenon of the patient’s face swollen hard lump is more obvious, or found to have a fluctuating feeling, accompanied by local obvious swelling and pain and fever phenomenon, it can be considered to be because the inflammation is not controlled, the formation of abscesses caused. For patients diagnosed with interstitial infection, the doctor will recommend incision and drainage treatment.
Patients need to actively go to the hospital stomatology department, after diagnosis, according to the doctor’s prescription medication or ask the attending physician to formulate a reasonable treatment plan and medication.