My teeth are rotting what can i do
What feels like a rotting tooth is usually advanced tooth decay or a broken, infected tooth, and treatment may involve a filling, crown, root canal, or ex.
The short answer
What feels like a rotting tooth is usually advanced tooth decay or a broken, infected tooth, and treatment may involve a filling, crown, root canal, or extraction after an examination.
What is the direct answer?
What does this question mean?
Decay is a bacterial acid process that removes minerals from enamel and then destroys dentine. If bacteria reach the pulp, inflammation can cause spontaneous pain, tenderness, or an abscess around the root.
What can you do next?
Book an examination with radiographs so each tooth can be assessed for remaining structure, pulp status, and infection. Treatment may remove decay and restore the tooth, clean and seal the root canals before a crown, or remove a tooth that cannot be predictably repaired.
When should you seek dental care?
Urgent care is needed for facial swelling, fever, spreading redness, difficulty swallowing, or difficulty breathing. Pain that suddenly stops while swelling continues can still indicate a serious infection.
What should you ask the dentist?
Ask which teeth are restorable, whether the pulp is infected, what temporary protection is needed, and how missing teeth would be replaced if extraction is necessary.
Frequently asked questions
What is the main thing to remember?
A tooth is judged by its remaining sound structure and root condition, not by its colour alone.
When should this be checked?
Urgent care is needed for facial swelling, fever, spreading redness, difficulty swallowing, or difficulty breathing. Pain that suddenly stops while swelling continues can still indicate a serious infection.