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The most common location of dry socket: in the socket of an extracted mandibular third molar (wisdom tooth). Since alveolar osteitis is not primarily an infection, there is not usually any pyrexia (fever) or cervical lymphadenitis (swollen glands in the neck), and only minimal edema (swelling) and erythema (redness) is present in the soft tissues surrounding the socket.
Deep neck space infections are mouth infections that have spread to the spaces between the connective tissue that separates the compartments of the neck, also known as the deep cervical fascia. When an infection involves the deep neck spaces, patients may report a wide variety of symptoms, including fever, pain with swallowing, inability to ...
A dental extraction ... numb the site of the injection up to a few millimetres deep. [2] ... up and down the head and neck. A dry-socket is not an infection, and is ...
Infection can occur from: Pharynx: acute and chronic infection of tonsil and adenoids; Teeth: dental infection occurs from lower last molar tooth; Ear: Bezold's abscess and petrositis; Other space: infection of parotid retropharyngeal space; External trauma: penetrating injuries of neck, injection of local anaesthetic [3]
Infections originating in the roots of teeth can be identified with a dental X-ray. [17] [18] A CT scan of the neck with contrast material is used to identify deep neck space infections. [19] If there is suspicion of the infection of the chest cavity, a chest scan is sometimes done. [18]
In rare cases, toothache can be a symptom representing a life-threatening condition, such as a deep neck infection (compression of the airway by a spreading odontogenic infection) or something more remote like a heart attack. [citation needed] Dental caries, if left untreated, follows a predictable natural history as it nears the pulp of the ...
The pterygomandibular space is one of the possible spaces into which a tooth may be displaced into during dental extraction, e.g. of a maxillary wisdom tooth. [5] A mandibular fracture in the angle region may also be the cause of a pterygomandibular space infection. [1]
Osteomyelitis of the jaws is osteomyelitis (which is infection and inflammation of the bone marrow, sometimes abbreviated to OM) which occurs in the bones of the jaws (i.e. maxilla or the mandible). Historically, osteomyelitis of the jaws was a common complication of odontogenic infection (infections of the teeth). Before the antibiotic era, it ...