Wisdom teeth extraction after the swelling may be due to the special location of the wisdom teeth, surgical trauma, postoperative infection and other reasons, generally can subside on their own, swelling and pain can be appropriate to take anti-inflammatory drugs to ease the serious.
1. Special location of wisdom teeth: clinically, due to the growth of wisdom teeth close to the throat, and with the occlusal space and other important interstitial space connected to the human body, while the roots of the wisdom teeth are relatively close to the lower alveolar nerve tube, so after removing the wisdom teeth, the wound blood seepage is easy to flow into these special interstitial space, resulting in facial swelling and other phenomena, generally 3 to 5 days to subside.
2. Surgical trauma: Wisdom teeth belong to molar, large size, and the probability of obstruction is very large, there may be a variety of abnormalities such as proximal obstruction, horizontal obstruction or ambulatory obstruction, etc., in the process of removing the wisdom teeth, you need to cut the gums, flap, bone and other operations, the soft tissues in the oral cavity as well as the bone tissue is more damaging, so after the surgery by the traumatized soft tissues may appear edema phenomenon. Therefore, edema may occur in the traumatized soft tissues after the surgery.
3. Postoperative infection: wisdom teeth extraction due to the extraction of large incisions, and wounds against the back, improper hygiene care after extraction, easy to cause food residue retention in the extraction nest, resulting in bacterial infection of the wound and thus the phenomenon of swelling and pain, the need to take metronidazole tablets under the guidance of the doctor or cefradine capsules and other drugs to carry out anti-infective treatment.
It is recommended to go to the hospital in time when the abnormal situation occurs, the use of drugs need to follow the doctor’s advice.