If tooth decay doesn't hurt, don't you need to treat it?

"If caries is not painful, it can not be treated" is a serious misunderstanding, remember to fill teeth as soon as possible! If you still do not see a doctor, the caries will further develop and invade the pulp tissue (dental nerve) and cause inflammation, resulting in spontaneous and paroxysmal severe pain, especially when sleeping at night.

If you continue to go to work with the disease, the inflammation will further develop, which will lead to pulp necrosis.After pulp necrosis, there is no response to external stimuli (cold, heat, sour, sweet), and severe toothache is relieved, while this temporary relief lurks with more intense swelling and pain.

Because the inflammation further develops outside the root apex after pulp necrosis, causing acute or chronic inflammation around the apex, acute apical periodontitis is mainly manifested by persistent severe pain, elongation of the teeth and pain when chewing, and in severe cases, it causes swelling of maxillofacial tissues and facial cellulitis, resulting in general malaise and fever. Chronic apical periodontitis can lead to long-term pus-draining sinus tracts on the gum mucosa or skin.

In addition, after acute pulpitis or acute apical periodontitis is relieved, the caries pain is naturally relieved, and some patients mistakenly believe that the caries is not painful.

In fact, the pain is relieved but the cavity cannot be healed, it will only make the cavity bigger and bigger, the gums will be swollen and painful repeatedly, and over time, the tooth tissue will continue to break and fall off, the tooth will loosen, and develop into a residual crown and root that is difficult to treat, which will eventually lead to tooth loss, which in turn affects adjacent teeth. Therefore, once you suffer from caries, you should go to a regular hospital for treatment as soon as possible, so as to avoid small holes that are not filled and large holes that suffer hardship.