The primary treatment for a tooth abscess is always surgical: drainage, root canal, or extraction. Antibiotics alone cannot cure an abscess because they can’t remove the source of the infection.

Abscessed Tooth: Types, Causes, Stages, Symptoms and Treatment: By Shreoshree Chakrabarty An abscessed tooth is a painful condition caused by a bacterial infection that results in a pocket of pus at ...

A young Sacramento father of two has died after a sore tooth led to a full-blown infection that spread his lungs. Fox 40 reported that Vadim Kondratyuk Anatoliyevich, a 26-year-old long-haul trucker, ...

More than a year has passed since Deamonte Driver was hospitalized after bacteria from an untreated dental abscess spread to his brain. He underwent two brain surgeries and weeks of treatment last ...

An abscess occurs when an infection causes a pocket of pus to develop. Abscesses can develop on the skin, in the mouth, or inside the body. Bacterial infections typically cause abscesses. Pus develops ...