When you have a big toothache, you need to choose different pain relief methods according to different types of pain, for example, pulpitis and periapical inflammation may need root canal treatment, caries need filling treatment, periodontal disease and wisdom tooth pericoronitis, etc. need to use medication for anti-inflammatory treatment, and so on.
1. Root canal treatment: It is mainly applied to pulpitis and apical periodontitis, which is characterized by spontaneous pain and temperature stimulated pain. It is necessary to open the pulp on the surface of the tooth and make a hole, suggesting a channel between the tooth surface and the pulp cavity, releasing the pressure in order to stop the pain, and then continue the root canal treatment for a complete cure.
2. Filling treatment: mainly for caries, manifested as hot and cold stimulation pain, but the pain disappears instantly after the stimulation is removed. Directly removing the carious tissue, filling can relieve the pain.
3. medication: mainly for periodontal disease and wisdom teeth pericoronitis and other soft tissue type of pain, generally recommended oral cephalosporin antibiotics and nitroimidazole antibiotics, to be relieved after the acute symptoms, but also need to be periodontal sequence treatment or extraction of wisdom teeth.
There are many types of toothache, it is recommended to go to the regular hospital stomatology department, by the physician examination and diagnosis, and then symptomatic treatment, the use of drugs need to follow the doctor’s instructions.