What Happens to An Infected Tooth?
Somehow, through tooth decay, tooth cracks, or from dead tissue, the interior of the tooth has an unclean substance within it. The body responds to this unclean substance by trying to remove the substance. Pus is a thin protein-rich fluid that the body uses to trap and contain foreign substances. The body also uses the tool of inflammation, to contain and dissolve or remove foreign elements in the body. If you have had an infection from a cut, this is the same thing that can happen in your tooth and gum. So, sometimes special care is needed, and sometimes it can heal on its own if you can eliminate the cause.
