If you have a sore throat, a stuffy nose, and a general feeling of malaise, then these are obvious symptoms of a cold. What to do if you have an appointment with the dentist at this time - is it possible to treat teeth if you have a cold? It is impossible to answer this question unequivocally, since most often it is better to postpone a dental appointment until recovery.
Content:
- When treatment is necessary
- When is it not recommended to treat teeth for a cold?
- High fever and toothache control
- What to do if you had to postpone your visit to the doctor due to a viral disease
Treatment of toothache during acute respiratory viral infections and acute respiratory infections has a number of features.
Due to the disease, a person’s immunity decreases, which means that the body may respond inadequately to any intervention. It is especially dangerous to carry out drainage and other invasive dental operations at this time. Therefore, dentists usually do not recommend coming for an appointment if you are not feeling well. The difficulty lies in the fact that with a runny nose or headache (and these are quite common signs of ARVI), it is difficult to sit for a long time in a doctor’s chair with your mouth open. But it is not always possible to postpone a visit to the dental center. If a doctor’s help is needed urgently, it is recommended to come for an appointment, regardless of the symptoms of a concomitant illness. The doctor will conduct an examination and tell you whether your teeth can be treated for a cold or whether therapy should be postponed.
How to go to the dentist and not get infected with coronavirus?
The ideal environment for coronavirus is large crowds of people. There are many people in dental clinics who can be a source of infection. Dozens of patients come to see doctors every day. Each of them may be a carrier of the infection. Therefore, the fears are justified.
The solution is to avoid queues and large crowds by choosing the Primedent private clinic. What's the difference you ask? Here's what:
- Our clinic does not have such a flow of people as in public health care institutions. You don’t have to sit in line for hours, enduring pain, because we have strict regulations - 1 hour per 1 patient. In addition, you choose a convenient time to visit a specialist.
- All our dentists are doctors of the highest and first categories, so you can have no doubt about the quality of services.
- Oral diseases weaken your immune system, which means you become vulnerable to coronavirus.
- After each patient, the room undergoes thorough cleaning, and all rooms are securely isolated. Tools undergo heat treatment to kill bacteria and viruses. The doctor carries out any manipulation - from a simple consultation to dental prosthetics - wearing personal protective equipment.
The choice to treat or not treat your teeth is yours. But if you value your health, choose high-quality and safe treatment from specialists.
Take care of yourself and smile widely!
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When treatment is necessary
Among the situations when treatment of an oral disease is urgently needed:
- The ailments appeared a few days after the toothache began or simultaneously with it. This may indicate that a condition mistaken for a cold is, in fact, a sign of the progression of dental pathology. For example, weakness, migraine and high body temperature often indicate the progression of pulpitis, inflammation of a dental root cyst, and damage to soft tissues.
- The pain in the unit is so severe that it cannot be reduced with modern analgesics. Then the person takes one tablet, followed by a second. Then he changes the painkiller to a stronger one, but all attempts made are in vain. Most often, severe discomfort occurs during purulent processes. These are always difficult and dangerous conditions. If they are not diagnosed and treated in time, pus can spread through the bloodstream throughout the body. The consequences of this will be sad - even death.
- Pus is released from the diseased unit, body temperature is constantly elevated and practically does not decrease after using an antipyretic. This symptom complex indicates a serious inflammatory process. It needs to be stopped as soon as possible.
- A jaw injury was sustained. In the first hours after damage to the dental crown, certain measures can be taken to restore it. If you wait, then it will not be possible to restore the integrity of the surface of the unit in a natural way - you will have to carry out prosthetics in the future.
In these situations, the dentist will definitely provide treatment, regardless of the patient’s cold symptoms.
Urgent cases of depulpation
Urgent cases of tooth extraction, despite a cold in the body, include all types of fluxes, when the danger of their development prevails over the danger of an inflammatory condition.
The dentist may refuse to remove a tooth if there are herpes sores on the lips, around the line of the mouth, and along the lower edge of the nose. The infection that causes herpes is stronger than cold viruses, and dentists are rightfully wary of it.
During a cold, the body fights germs and infections, which significantly weakens the strength of its immunity. Therefore, the risk of infection of open wounds that appear after dental surgery increases. Here the doctor makes a fundamental decision about what is more important for health – tooth extraction or eliminating problems with colds.
An important argument for postponing tooth extraction due to a cold is the use of anesthetics and painkillers during pulp removal, which can have a bad effect on a person weakened by a cold.
When is it not recommended to treat teeth for a cold?
If a person has an appointment at the clinic, but fell ill the day before, he should cancel the visit to the doctor in the following cases:
- Treatment of unadvanced caries was planned. If the unit does not hurt, it is quite possible to shift the therapy to 7-10 days. Usually this period is enough to completely recover from ARVI. During the days of treatment for ARVI, maximum attention should be paid to carious cavity care. It is important to clean it of food debris after every meal. In order to slow down the process of destruction of dental tissues, you need to treat them twice a day with a special remineralizing gel. You can buy it at the pharmacy.
- A high temperature is caused by a cold. Fever is a contraindication to any dental intervention.
- A planned removal is required. The period of illness is not at all suitable for such operations. First, the body may react poorly to the anesthetic drug. Then a severe allergy will develop. Secondly, the immune system spends all its energy trying to defeat the virus. This means that the healing processes in the socket area will proceed more slowly, and the risk of wound infection will increase.
- On the eve of visiting the dentist, the patient took acetylsalicylic acid. A week before dental procedures, you should stop using this drug. This is due to the fact that Aspirin strongly thins the blood. This increases the risk of bleeding even with minor medical manipulations.
- The nose became very stuffy, and nasal breathing became impossible. While the doctor is treating the affected molar, canine or incisor, the patient has to breathe through his nose. He simply cannot take a full breath through his mouth. But, if you don’t want to put off visiting the doctor, you can cheat a little - use an effective vasoconstrictor spray ten to fifteen minutes before entering the dentist’s office. True, the drug for rhinitis will still have to be agreed upon with the dentist. After all, it is possible that it will be incompatible with the medications that the dentist will use during treatment.
It is important to understand that the final decision on the advisability of therapy during a cold should be made by the doctor. If a person doubts that a visit to the clinic can be postponed, he should call the dental center and consult with a specialist by phone. This is a fairly common practice.
How to set up a child for dental treatment?
Despite the fact that modern dentistry practices exclusively painless dental treatment for children, not every child is ready to trust a doctor. Moreover, the younger the child, the more difficult it is to negotiate with him and convince him to open his mouth in the dental chair. Experienced doctors have long known how to prepare a child for dental treatment:
- The use of distracting elements: bright design of the office, the presence of a TV, an unusual robe at the dentist, toys - all this helps to distract the baby, divert his attention from the upcoming procedure and give him time to calm down.
- Use of colored fillings: when a child has the opportunity to independently choose the color of the filling, treatment procedures can easily be turned into a game.
- Presence of parents: often the presence of parents in the office significantly calms the baby and sets him up to cooperate with the doctor.
- Application anesthesia: pre-treatment with a special anesthetic gel before anesthetic injection and further procedures eliminates any painful sensations.
If the baby still does not cooperate, and treatment is necessary, you can offer parents the option of having all dental procedures performed under anesthesia or intravenous sedation. In a good clinic, these methods are absolutely safe for the child’s body.
High fever and toothache control
Most dentists agree that when the body temperature is elevated, it is not advisable to deal with dental problems. The body already has a difficult time - it is fighting the virus, trying to destroy pathogenic microflora. Additional intervention may negatively affect the speed of recovery. Moreover, with a cold, any wounds that arise after medical manipulations heal more slowly. Consequently, the risk of secondary infection increases sharply.
But the situation is completely different if the temperature is not a symptom of ARVI, but a consequence of tooth inflammation. Here, waiting for a runny nose or cough to go away is unacceptable. You should visit a doctor as soon as possible. Even a tiny dental root cyst can cause problems that lead to partial edentulism.
Complications after dental treatment during a cold
Viruses most often enter the body through the mucous membrane of the throat or nose, so these tissues are the first to become inflamed. The proximity of the infected area to the treatment site increases the risk of the virus entering the tooth tissue, for example, along with saliva. This can not only slow down recovery after manipulation, but also cause complications:
- sinusitis: if a virus or bacteria enters the maxillary sinuses. This disease is very dangerous because a large amount of pus forms in the sinuses close to the eyes and brain, which leads to intoxication,
- Otitis media: If an infection enters the inner or middle ear and causes inflammation. Severe otitis media can lead to hearing loss,
- pneumonia: if the infection enters the respiratory tract, inflammation will begin in the lungs. Treatment of pneumonia is very long, and if it is started untimely, the risk of death increases,
- meningitis: viruses or bacteria enter the brain through the circulatory system, causing inflammation of its membranes. This disease is characterized by high mortality,
- osteomyelitis: when the infection spreads through the bloodstream or infected surrounding tissue to the bone tissue. The course of the disease is such that it leads to bone deformation or degeneration.
What to do if you had to postpone your visit to the doctor due to a viral disease
Doctors most often do not recommend self-medication at home. But, if there is a dental problem, and it will be possible to visit a specialist only after some time, the patient needs to take responsibility for his health.
Following a number of rules will help here:
- Put oral hygiene first. Use the brush and paste morning and evening. After each meal, rinsing with warm water or a special rinse is recommended.
- Drink plenty of fluids. This will reduce the symptoms of intoxication, which may be a consequence of viral disease and tooth inflammation.
- Take medications aimed at relieving ARVI symptoms. They usually contain painkillers and anti-inflammatory compounds that quickly relieve pain (including dental pain).
- Dissolve menthol tablets. They reduce discomfort in the throat and distract if only one is aching. Menthol provides a weak anesthetic effect, but is safe for health. The only thing is that the component cannot be used by people who are allergic to it.
- Make mouth baths with soda and salt. To prepare a medicinal solution, half a teaspoon of one of these compositions is dissolved in a glass of warm water. Take the liquid into your cheek (from the side of the painful tooth) and hold it for several minutes, then spit it out. Repeat the procedure several times in the morning, lunch and evening. Baking soda and salt perfectly relieve inflammation, destroy bacteria and “pull out” pus. It is very important that the water in which they are dissolved is warm and not hot.
- Avoid eating sweets, sour and spicy foods. When the enamel is thinned, such food aggravates the course of the disease.
- Don't chew anything hard. Nuts, candies, crackers - these and other hard goodies are prohibited until a doctor cures an oral disease.
- Chew food on the healthy side of the jaw. It is advisable to try to temporarily reduce the load on the “culprit of pain”.
As soon as your health returns to normal, you should immediately go to the dentist. Then the doctor will safely treat the affected unit.
Take care of yourself and do not develop dental diseases. Visit your dentist annually, even if you don't have a toothache or notice any new cavities. Regular examinations are the best preventative measure.
An integrated approach to the problem - delete or wait
Here the issue is resolved together with the therapist: it is necessary to remove the tooth and include antiviral drug therapy, taking painkillers in order to relieve the general symptoms of a cold, and to prevent infection from getting into the wound after tooth extraction. At the same time, the intake of immunostimulants and vitamin complexes is added to help the immune system overcome the painful condition and accelerate the improvement of the general condition.
Problems that the therapist and dentist solve together:
- strengthening the patient's immunity antiviral therapy antibacterial treatment of wounds after tooth extraction disinfection of possible wounds and cracks in the oral mucosa protecting the dentist himself from infection with a virus or infection
Dental tissue deteriorates quickly, and if there is a question about further installation of an implant, then the wound after tooth extraction must be kept clean and healthy so that the mucous membrane is not damaged by microbes. Therefore, it is imperative to remove the tooth, taking precautions against infection of the wound, despite minor manifestations of a cold. After all, while waiting for treatment for a cold, caries damage can spread to neighboring teeth, which is very undesirable for the general condition of the teeth.
Can a tooth cause a sore throat?
A sore throat gives a person many unpleasant sensations. There can be many reasons for a sore throat; treatment tactics depend on them. Can a tooth cause a sore throat? This is a question often asked by patients to an otolaryngologist.
Experts note that when teething - baby teeth in children or wisdom teeth in adults - the mucous membrane of the throat can become inflamed. Pediatric dentistry knows cases where pain in the gums spread to the throat.
Such unpleasant sensations usually occur when a tooth erupts in the lower jaw, pushing apart the roots of other neighboring teeth. The process of their eruption can cause pain not only in the gums, but also in the throat due to the close location of the masticatory muscle. Particularly painful sensations occur when swallowing.
Often, a sore throat can be caused by a number of dental diseases. The inflammatory process of the mucous membrane of the throat often occurs as a result of periodontitis, galvanic syndrome and teething pathologies.
Aphthous stomatitis is another common cause of sore throat. The disease is accompanied by the development of an inflammatory process in the oral cavity, in which ulcers and erosions form on the mucous membranes. They can cause pain and burning not only in the mouth, but also in the throat.
Painful sensations in the throat in children and adults also occur with the development of gingivitis, when the gums become inflamed.
The disease is accompanied by the following symptoms:
- gums become swollen and begin to hurt; there is itching in the gums; minor bleeding occurs in the gums.
Gum pain often spreads to the throat, because due to the close location, the inflammatory process quickly descends. Dentists name several other factors that cause sore throat. These include such ailments as cysts in the gums and gumboils. When a cyst forms on the gum, swelling and severe pain occur. If flux is also added to the pathological process, the symptoms intensify, in addition, the body temperature rises, the pain begins to radiate to other organs - the eye, ear, throat, temple.
The eruption of wisdom teeth in adults is rarely asymptomatic; patients usually complain that their throat hurts in the tonsil area on the affected side. If you experience pain in the teeth and throat, you should visit the dentist's office. If dental diseases are the cause of the pain, they should be treated.
If an 8-year-old child has a sore throat and a toothache at the same time, is it possible to remove the tooth during a cold?
High temperature is a contraindication. The tooth is a milk tooth, there will be no problems with removal.
Olga Malysheva
In no case. Treat your throat first. Rinse and look and the tooth will stop hurting
You can remove it if the doctor agrees.
Why does a child need unnecessary shocks? In no case. Wait, the throat will go away, and then you can remove the tooth.
Marina Volkova
No doctor will remove a tooth for you if you have a sore throat, especially for a child.
Alisa Karasevich
No need, maybe the tooth hurts just because of the throat. I had this myself, and my ear also hurt. Toothache was relieved with Nurofen for children. My throat was cured and my toothache went away.
Just LANA
Only the dentist knows about this; if a tooth needs to be removed, it will be a big burden, because the body is weakened. Get well!
Can you go to the dentist if your throat hurts? I really need it! But suddenly you can’t - I’m contagious!
If your teeth hurt badly, then it’s better to go. But usually they don’t take it if you have a sore throat. not so much because of the possibility of infection, but rather so that the infection is not introduced into the wound during surgery.
Better not…. the dentist may not accept...
It’s better to cure your throat first, but if it’s unbearable, then you can!
Alexey Leonidov
If you really need it, go. This is his job.
Having examined the problem in person, the doctor will decide whether it is possible and necessary to postpone it.
David Harutyunyan
It’s better to cure your throat if you don’t let the dentist work. and most importantly, don’t eat that garlic, it stinks a lot
Nastya Litunovskaya
Heal your throat then go. If the teeth have come to an end, then eat liquid and viscous
Irina Konstantinova
First the throat, then the teeth.
And not only because you are “contagious,” but to avoid complications during anesthesia, treatment or tooth extraction in the form of progression of a viral infection
Is it possible to pull out a tooth if you have a cold? I made an appointment to have a tooth pulled, but my nose is stuffy and my throat hurts.
Nadejda Blagodarnaya
Refrain if possible.
Fourteenth Evil
It is better to postpone this event.
Victor Kuzmenok
So what? The dentist will put tampons in your nose and throat but pull out the tooth.
Dewr Cwningen
During a cold, the body fights infection, throwing all its strength at it. An additional burden in the form of tooth extraction will not be beneficial; complications may arise, since after removal a slight inflammatory process will still occur, and the immune system will either react to this very sharply (which is always uncomfortable for a person), or will be weakened and will not be able to protect the inflammatory focus. If the tooth is not neglected, it is better to wait a week until complete recovery, and then pull it out.
Soap Fairy Olga
If a tooth hurts, it is better to pull it out as soon as possible. If the tooth does not hurt and there is no fever, then you can also go for extraction. If the tooth does not bother you much and you have a fever, then you should wait, but not for long, since a diseased tooth also causes inflammation.
