First is an assessment of your health, mouth (mercury fillings, cavitations or
jaw bone infection), and external environment.
Not exact matches
When it is necessary to extract teeth, do so in such a way as to avoid leaving the
jaw bone with cavitations, which can become focal points of
infection.
Such side effects include stomach ulcers and osteoneocrosis, or death of the
jaw bone, resulting in tooth loss, pain and
infection.
Beyond tooth loss, however, severe periodontal disease can lead to pathological fractures of the lower
jaw bones, and / or erosion of the ventral part of the nasal sinsus leading to an
infection that spans the maxilla (upper
jaw bone) and nasal sinsus, called an oronasal fistula.
Untreated periodontal disease can result in
bone infections and
jaw fractures.
That
infection can spread into the tooth roots and potentially even into the
bone of the cat's
jaw.
Some rabbits are prone to dental
infections; others donâ $ ™ t get enough calcium, which weakens the
jaw and surrounding
bones.
In addition, the
infection that is eating away at the
bone from below can eventually make its way into the skull and
jaw bone causing a chronic painful condition caused osteomyelitis that can take several months of antibiotics to eradicate, and in some cases, can weaken the
bone so much that cats can develop what is called a pathologic fracture, where the
bone breaks with the slightest bit of pressure.
If allowed to progress without treatment, the
infection can travel through the
bone of the upper
jaw and break out as an abscess either on the gums over the tooth, or on the skin under the eye.
It can also lead to spontaneous
jaw fractures, deep seated
bone infection, and cancer (neoplasia) at the affected tooth.
Pets with poor dental hygiene are also at greater risk for:
jaw fractures,
bone infection, tissue /
bone loss around the teeth, and nasal fistulas (a hole leading from the oral cavity to the nasal cavity).
Advanced dental disease can lead to tooth root abscesses, which are extremely painful, oro - nasal fistulas, tooth fractures, blindness (due to inflammation of the roots close to the eye), oral cancer, and osteomyelitis (
infection of the
jaw bone).