A cyst - what is it?

Suddenly begins to suffer pain in healthy tooth. The gums appear pustules, painful to chew food. We accept analgesic, assign ourselves rinsing the mouth, remember "grandma's recipes". And in vain. Because these symptoms indicate the presence in the tooth cysts. And not everyone knows how fraught this neighborhood.

What is a cyst? Name the cyst comes from the Greek word "kystis" bubble. Cyst of tooth or jaw cyst, is a kind of protective reaction of the organism. When through the root canal into the jawbone get germs and bacteria, the inflammation begins. Infected cells die, and in the jaw occurs cavity. And then around this dead area of a dense membrane, which isolates the affected cells from healthy. This is a cyst.

Looks like a cyst? In appearance it is a capsule with a dense shell filled with inflammatory fluid. Its diameter may range from 5 millimeters to several centimeters. If the size of the cyst tooth less than 0.5 centimeters, this education doctors called a granuloma. Granuloma and cyst stages of the inflammatory process in the jaw. To see what is this education, you can also use x-ray studies. A cyst on the x-ray has the appearance of dark spots oval with clear smooth boundary. Often this spot is located at the top of any tooth root or contains a coronal part of the unerupted tooth.

Causes of cysts. The main cause of the cysts is the penetration of infection in the tissue of the tooth. If you ignore the visit to the dentist and not to treat tooth decay in time, it is easy to fall into the risk group. Incorrect tooth canal treatment, mechanical trauma, caries complicated, malformations of teeth, infectious diseases of the nasopharynx and oral cavity can also cause the appearance of cysts. In addition, the cyst may occur under poorly fit the crown of the tooth. In this case falling under her leftover food and a wonderful environment for bacteria.

Symptoms of tooth cyst. Its growth is usually very slow. It may take a while does not manifest itself, slowly destroying the tissue of the jaw and teeth roots. People may notice only a small displacement of a tooth or darkening. When the cyst is already large (3 cm), begin to show signs of its presence. Inflamed cyst causes headache, General malaise, fever, enlarged lymph nodes. The cyst hurts, feels it when naduzywany food. Symptoms of inflammation of the tooth cyst is a flux, fistulous course, suppuration, swelling of the gums. They occur when the body can no longer cope with the spread of infection.

Reasons rapid growth of cysts of the tooth. To provoke the growth of cysts under the tooth may deterioration of the General condition of man. The body activates protective mechanisms and to the site of inflammation, levied a special immune cells. If time does not carry out the removal of cysts, tired body to fight infection. The epithelium grows, the volume of cystic fluid. It stimulates the growth and the occurrence of inflammation of the tooth cyst. Despite the fact that originally it education protects the body from infection, running a cyst can lead to serious complications: abscess (limited purulent focus) pathological fractures of the jaw loss of teeth in the field of cysts periostitis or flux (Shin splints) cellulitis of the face or neck (acute spilled purulent inflammation of the soft tissue without clear boundaries) osteomyelitis (inflammation of bone tissue of the jaw) sepsis (blood poisoning) benign tumor the cancer. Especially dangerous cyst during pregnancy when there is a high risk of infection and there are significant restrictions on treatment. Treatment of cysts of the tooth. Modern dentistry recommends teeth maintaining treatment. Before the cyst was the indication for removal of the tooth, but today are used more benign methods. Depending on the severity of injury, treatment can be carried out in two ways: Therapeutically. The root canal of the tooth is washed drugs and cement. Medications help to neutralize the cyst. This treatment is used only for cysts with a diameter not exceeding 8 mm Surgically. The teeth are retained, removing only the tops of all of the affected roots through an incision on the gums (the root apex resection). Deleted tooth tissue substitute artificial materials. The cyst completely cut out, or partially excised her shell, if it is large. This operation is called resection of the cyst tooth. After resection of a patient with a cyst prescribed antibiotics. But sometimes requires removal of the cyst along with the tooth. As is always done if the cyst wisdom tooth.