2007-03-26 14:40:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Dental
Well... When the tooth is bad, cavitated, the caries will progress if no treatment is seek. Sooner or later, it will be deep enough to involve the pulp(which consist of the nerve, blood supply....) of that tooth. The pulp will undergone inflammation...and later become necrotic...wgich will cause pus(abscess) formation later on...
Well...with or without the pain...the pus is first localised to the root of that tooth... if it is left untreated... the pus will cause bone resortion at the tip of the root, which will later keep on expanding without treatment.... later .. the pus will not confine to the bone or the gum area.. it will extend to the muscles around that tooth. By that time, this person is going to have a pus accumulation in the muscle (presenting with swelling of the face, lip...), if still left untreated will lead to cellulitis...
If that tooth happened to be a lower tooth, the swelling cause by the abscess might include the floor of the mouth(muscle beneath the tongue), which will cause elevation of the tongue and obstruction of the airway (Lugwig angina). This person might die due to this condition...
2007-03-26 18:21:12 · answer #1 · answered by Jc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually a bad tooth can kill you due to infection. If a tooth abscesses it can be fatal not a good idea to leave it in your mouth if it has gone bad.
2007-03-26 14:44:38 · answer #2 · answered by L3THAL_INJ3CTION 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sooner or later you will go to the dentist and you will pull your bad tooth out. Becouse you're pain will be unbearable.
2007-03-26 19:37:26 · answer #3 · answered by S c a l p e r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pain is the first thing that comes to mind...next an abscess...(an infection at the root...which if left untreated could lead to worse things like a systemic infection...the loss of other teeth around it....etc...etc...
2007-03-26 14:47:47 · answer #4 · answered by jam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u could die
no joke.
2007-03-26 14:51:29 · answer #5 · answered by tirebiter 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋