What can be done about periapical periodontitis?

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Teeth with periapical periodontitis can not be extracted, of course, according to the specific situation of the patient to judge, there may be able to extract teeth, there may not be able to extract teeth. If acute periapical periodontitis, then can be elective tooth extraction, first do tooth pulp drainage, wait until the inflammation basically relieved pain is basically controlled, then consider tooth extraction. If chronic periapical periodontitis, then in this case can be directly extracted. Of course, if the acute periapical periodontitis is particularly serious, the symptoms cannot be relieved after pulpotomy drainage, and even the patient has obvious systemic infection, or there is obvious suppuration, etc., after conservative treatment, the pus cannot be quickly drained. At this time, it is possible to extract teeth during acute inflammation.

What can be done about periapical periodontitis?



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