If left untreated severe tooth abscess may be large enough to perforate bone and extend into the soft tissue, osteomyelitis and cellulitis was ultimately, respectively. Then follow the path of least resistance and can be distributed internally or externally. Route of infection is influenced by factors such as the location of the infected tooth and the thickness of the bones, muscles and connective tissue attachments.

External drainage may begin to damage, which will burst down the pus drainage from the abscess, intraorally (usually through the gum) or extra orally. Chronic drainage will form the epithelium in this notice pus draining canal (fistula). Sometimes this type of drain immediate relief of painful symptoms associated with stress.

Any untreated infection that could result in adverse effects, including (in rare cases) even death. Usually when absess, untreated, eventually stopped hurting, but it comes back with a vengeance a few times until it is handled. The treatment is either extraction which is usually the best optionor a root canal treatment which is not half as bad as it seems.


Internal drainage is more important is the spread of the infection in the tissues around the infection. Serious complications that require immediate hospitalization include Ludwig's angina pectoris, which is a combination of growing infection and cellulitis airway space causing suffocation in extreme cases closing. The infection may extend downward tissue spaces, the mediastinum, with important consequences for vital organs like the heart. Another complication, usually of the upper teeth, the risk of septicemia (blood infection), from connecting into blood vessels, brains abscess (extremely rare) or meningitis (also rare).

Depending on the severity of the infection, the victim slightly sick, or in extreme cases require hospital