How to anesthetize the wisdom tooth during pregnancy?
If there is no inflammation of the gums and swelling,at home, you can speed up the eruption of a tooth. To do this, you need to massage the gum in a circle or bite hard food. When a tooth is erupting, a kind of "pocket" may appear, where food particles can get into. In such a situation, it is important to promptly consult a doctor who will advise excision of the gum to prevent purulent formation.A tooth of wisdom during pregnancy can deliver a lot of unpleasant sensations during eruption. Photo: GettyIn the inflammatory process there is a aching pain that can be removed by such means:
- place on the gum a cotton swab with clove oil, withstand application 15 minutes;
- squeeze out juice from a slice of garlic and grease them with a place where the tooth grows;
- place on the site of inflammation used tea bag in a warm form;
- rinse your mouth with soda or saline solution;
- rinse your mouth with broths of chamomile, sage, marigold;
- drink tea from ginger, lemon and honey, which has antibacterial properties.
From medicines, a dentist canrecommend an ultracaine or lidocaine, allowed during pregnancy. You need to do the application on the site of inflammation, lubricating the cotton swab with one of these tools and keeping the tooth growth in place of no more than 10 minutes.
Is it possible to remove the wisdom tooth during pregnancy?
Dentists do not recommend removingwisdom teeth erupting during pregnancy, as this is fraught with an increase in body temperature in the expectant mother, headache, deterioration of general health. But the doctor takes into account what is happening at the site of tooth growth. If unbearable pain appears, the gums become inflamed, a cyst forms, pus is released, the dentist may decide to immediately remove the tooth. The procedure is performed under local anesthesia using anesthetics permitted during pregnancy. But if possible, the doctor decides to treat the tooth and postpones surgery until a later date of pregnancy. If the erupting wisdom tooth is a source of infection, this condition is much more dangerous than the use of anesthetics. Therefore, it is important to treat or remove it in order to prevent the development of serious complications in the pregnant woman and the fetus.