How can Dental Abscess be treated?
Occasionally a tooth that has been traumatized from an accident or has the initial onset of an abscess or appears to be abscessing, these may be treated with an antibiotic therapy to try to help the tooth settle down or possibly buy some time. There is no guarantee that the tooth will recover and some of them do settle down for a few weeks, months and sometimes even years. Usually this treatment will give the patient some time before having to proceed with a root canal. Other than the antibiotic or root canal therapy there are no other “treatments” available that will save/retain the tooth. If the antibiotic therapy doesn’t work the only other course of treatment would be to extract the tooth and proceed with a bridge or implant; that is “if” the root canal is not a choice.
