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Badly Infected Wisdom Tooth
Badly Infected Wisdom Tooth Dentist 42,763 Views • 3 years ago

What Is It? Your wisdom teeth (third molars) usually start to erupt (enter your mouth) during the late teen years. Sometimes, there's not enough room for them. They may come into your mouth partially or not at all. Partial eruption of a wisdom tooth can create a flap of gum tissue next to the tooth. The flap can trap bits of food and debris. It can turn into a hotbed for bacteria. It's called pericoronitis if the tissue around the tooth becomes inflamed. Pericoronitis also can occur around a wisdom tooth that is still completely under the gums. Symptoms Symptoms include: Painful, swollen gum tissue in the area of the affected tooth. It can be difficult to bite down comfortably without catching the swollen tissue between your teeth. A bad smell or taste in the mouth Discharge of pus from the gum near the tooth More serious symptoms include: Swollen lymph nodes under your chin (the submandibular nodes) Muscle spasms in the jaw Swelling on the affected side of the face Diagnosis Usually, someone with pericoronitis goes to the dentist, complaining of pain in the area of the back tooth. Pericoronitis is diagnosed during the clinical exam. Your dentist will see inflamed gum tissue in the area of the unerupted or partly erupted wisdom tooth. The gums may be red, swollen or draining fluid or pus. Expected Duration Pericoronitis can be managed with antibiotics and warm salt water rinses. It goes away in about one week. However, it can return. This is likely to happen if the tooth does not completely enter the mouth and food and bacteria keep building up under the gum. Prevention You can help to prevent pericoronitis by brushing any erupting wisdom tooth and flossing around it. This will help make sure that food and bacteria do not build up under the gums. However, sometimes these steps do not work. If pericoronitis returns, you may need to have the flap of gum tissue removed. In some cases, the flap of tissue grows back and the wisdom tooth will need to be extracted. Treatment Pericoronitis can be tricky to treat. That's because the flap of gum tissue won't go away until the wisdom tooth emerges naturally, the tissue is removed or the tooth is removed. Your dentist will clean the area thoroughly by rinsing under the flap with water to remove bits of food and pus. Your dentist also may need to remove damaged tissue. If the area is infected, you'll most likely be given antibiotics. Your dentist will explain how to keep the area clean, which is the best way to prevent the problem from returning. This usually involves brushing and flossing daily and rinsing your mouth with water several times a day. These steps will help to prevent food from getting stuck under the gum flap. In some cases, your dentist may suggest removing the erupting tooth. Or the dentist may want to remove the tooth above it, which bites down on the gum below. If your dentist thinks the tooth may erupt fully into the mouth without problems, he or she may leave it alone. However, if pericoronitis comes back, the tooth may be extracted. Pericoronitis that causes symptoms should be treated as soon as possible. If it is not, the infection can spread to other areas of your mouth. The most severe cases are treated in a hospital. They sometimes require intravenous antibiotics and surgery. When To Call a Professional If you have symptoms of pericoronitis, make an appointment to see your dentist. If your wisdom teeth are coming in, visit your dentist at least twice a year for regular checkups. During those visits, the dentist can check on the progress of your wisdom teeth. Prognosis Pericoronitis does not cause any long-term effects. If the affected tooth is removed or erupts fully into the mouth, the condition cannot return.

Changing Dressing Wounds
Changing Dressing Wounds Harvard_Student 7,229 Views • 3 years ago

Changing Dressing Wounds

Barium Enema
Barium Enema Harvard_Student 19,923 Views • 3 years ago

Barium Enema

Ways to Help Pregnant Women Dilate HD
Ways to Help Pregnant Women Dilate HD Harvard_Student 12,362 Views • 3 years ago

Ways to Help Pregnant Women Dilate HD

Assisted Birth Delivery HD
Assisted Birth Delivery HD Harvard_Student 16,129 Views • 3 years ago

Assisted Birth Delivery HD

Breast Conservation Surgery for Breast Cancer
Breast Conservation Surgery for Breast Cancer Scott 2,134 Views • 3 years ago

Video demonstrating Breast Conservation Surgery with Type 1 Oncoplasty for an Early Breast Cancer.

Appendicectomy Procedure
Appendicectomy Procedure samer kareem 23,333 Views • 3 years ago

An appendectomy (sometimes called appendisectomy or appendicectomy) is the surgical removal of the vermiform appendix. This procedure is normally performed as an emergency procedure, when the patient is suffering from acute appendicitis.

Endometrial Biopsy of Uterus
Endometrial Biopsy of Uterus Scott 16,360 Views • 3 years ago

Endometrial Biopsy of Uterus

What happened During Ejaculation Of Man
What happened During Ejaculation Of Man samer kareem 25,278 Views • 3 years ago

A step-by-step physiology explainer of male ejaculation. The video follows the emission and expulsion phases, the role of the prostate, seminal vesicles and pelvic muscles, and how the process is coordinated by the nervous system. Presented for anatomy and health education.

Tonsil Stones Caseum
Tonsil Stones Caseum Anatomist 12,204 Views • 3 years ago

Tonsil Stones Caseum

Great White Cataract Surgery Video
Great White Cataract Surgery Video samer kareem 56,463 Views • 3 years ago

A cataract is a clouding of the lens in the eye that affects vision. Most cataracts are related to aging. Cataracts are very common in older people. By age 80, more than half of all Americans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery. A cataract can occur in either or both eyes. It cannot spread from one eye to the other.

Osteomyelitis of sternum after open heart surgery
Osteomyelitis of sternum after open heart surgery samer kareem 4,002 Views • 3 years ago

Osteomyelitis of sternum after open heart surgery

Testicular biopsy
Testicular biopsy Scott 33,954 Views • 3 years ago

Silent footage shows an open multi-puncture testicular biopsy performed to retrieve sperm for ICSI. Intracytoplasmic sperm injection is a fertility technique, and this recording presents the biopsy step by step without narration. It runs just under four minutes and is shared for education in urology and fertility care.

What is Prostate Cancer ?
What is Prostate Cancer ? samer kareem 2,177 Views • 3 years ago

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men (after skin cancer), but it can often be treated successfully. If you have prostate cancer or are close to someone who does, knowing what to expect can help you cope. Here you can find out all about prostate cancer, including risk factors, symptoms, how it is found, and how it is treated.

Navel stone removal from a dirty bellybutton
Navel stone removal from a dirty bellybutton hoda 65,945 Views • 3 years ago

This video shows the removal of a navel stone, a hardened buildup of material that can collect deep inside the belly button. The recording documents the cleaning and extraction in a clinical setting, restoring the navel to a clean state. Such buildups form gradually from skin cells, oils, and debris.

Mastitis: Recognition and Treatment
Mastitis: Recognition and Treatment samer kareem 3,816 Views • 3 years ago

Mastitis is an infection of the breast tissue that results in breast pain, swelling, warmth and redness. You also might have fever and chills. Mastitis most commonly affects women who are breast-feeding (lactation mastitis), although sometimes this condition can occur in women who aren't breast-feeding. In most cases, lactation mastitis occurs within the first six to 12 weeks after giving birth (postpartum), but it can happen later during breast-feeding. The condition can cause you to feel run down, making it difficult to care for your baby. Sometimes mastitis leads a mother to wean her baby before she intends to, but continuing to breast-feed, even while taking an antibiotic for the mastitis, is better for you and your baby.

Radical Prostatectomy
Radical Prostatectomy Mohamed 26,420 Views • 3 years ago

This is an educational video for the prostate cancer patients and their families. Depending on the individual patient, a radical prostatectomy, might be a procedure that your urologist could recommend as treatment. Here is a brief demonstration of this procedure.

Huge Sebaceous Cyst Removal Video
Huge Sebaceous Cyst Removal Video Scott 6,521 Views • 3 years ago

Huge Sebaceous Cyst Removal Medical Video procedure

Uterine Fibroid Tumors (Leiomyomas)
Uterine Fibroid Tumors (Leiomyomas) Mohamed 36,199 Views • 3 years ago

A uterine fibroid (also uterine leiomyoma, myoma, fibromyoma, leiofibromyoma, fibroleiomyoma, and fibroma) (plural of ... myoma is ...myomas or ...myomata) is a benign (non-cancerous) tumor that originates from the smooth muscle layer (myometrium) and the accompanying connective tissue of the uterus. Fibroids are the most common benign tumors in females and typically found during the middle and later reproductive years. While most fibroids are asymptomatic, they can grow and cause heavy and painful menstruation, painful sexual intercourse, and urinary frequency and urgency. Uterine fibroids is the major indication for hysterectomy in the US.[2] Fibroids are often multiple and if the uterus contains too many leiomyomatas to count, it is referred to as uterine leiomyomatosis. The malignant version of a fibroid is uncommon and termed a leiomyosarcoma.

Debridement of an Infected Diabetic Foot Wound
Debridement of an Infected Diabetic Foot Wound drpvmayer 15,077 Views • 3 years ago

Debridement of an Infected Diabetic Wound on the patients foot. The first is a series of online diabetic foot care videos by The Mayer Institute. Themayerinstitute.ca

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