What to do if your face is swollen and hard after a toothache

The face is swollen and hard after a toothache, which may be caused by acute apical inflammation, acute alveolar abscess, wisdom tooth pericoronitis, etc. According to the situation, choose medication, abscess incision and drainage, rinsing and medication and other treatment programs.
1. Acute apical inflammation: open the pulp drainage, you can take oral amoxicillin capsules and metronidazole tablets, or intravenous infusion of ceftriaxone sodium and metronidazole injection, wait until the inflammation has been relieved in a timely manner for root canal treatment.
2. Acute alveolar abscesses: timely incision and drainage of abscesses, oral amoxicillin capsules or cefixime capsules, with metronidazole tablets, etc., and then later for root canal treatment.
3. Wisdom tooth pericoronitis: first with hydrogen peroxide and saline for blind bag rinsing medication, fever, chills and other systemic symptoms, you can lose ceftriaxone sodium and metronidazole injections; wisdom teeth recurrent inflammation, and so on after the disappearance of inflammation, the wisdom teeth extraction.
Toothache after the face swollen hard not to handle on their own, timely to the hospital, under the guidance of the doctor to choose a reasonable drug treatment or surgical treatment, in order to facilitate the recovery of the condition.