A staggering 90 percent of adults in the UK have some gum disease on their teeth, and gum abscesses can often occur as a result. How do you know if your inflamed gums are dental abscesses?

Having toothache that no pain killer can control can be quite frustrating, from not being able to eat or even sleep in some cases. Just one of the reasons toothache can be so bad is due to dental ...

What is a tooth abscess? A tooth abscess is a bump of pus in various areas of your tooth caused by a bacterial infection. There are majorly two types of tooth abscess, namely periapical abscess and ...

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Poor oral hygiene can lead to various dental issues, including tooth abscess, which is a bacterial infection characterised by swelling in the gums that releases pus and blood. It can either occur at ...

Tooth abscesses are easily preventable in most cases and it doesn’t really require much effort. Dental treatment can work out to be extremely expensive and will also cause considerable discomfort.

People in urgent need of dental care are resorting to pulling their own teeth out, the patient watchdog has found. Those who ...

When one thing leads to another. A mother-of-four nearly died when a toothabscess caused an infection on her brain. Rebecca Dalton visited her dentist at theend of last year to see to a minor abscess ...