Delayed recognition of severe dental diseases contributed to diagnostic uncertainty, rapid sepsis progression, and heart failure in a patient with a deep neck infection.

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, ...

A pathogen detection test based on artificial intelligence (AI) was used to diagnose a patient's rare progressive brain abscess caused by a dental infection. Details were published on July 26 in a ...

Sasha Ross, DMD, MS, is a board-certified periodontist who has been with the Cleveland Clinic since 2013. She earned her dental degree from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and completed her ...

An abscessed tooth is a serious dental infection that develops around the root of a tooth, resulting in a pus-filled pocket. This condition can affect people of all ages and typically stems from ...

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.

A man was left 'hours from death' after a rotting wisdom tooth triggered killer sepsis - causing his infected chin to triple in size. James Alexander Thomas was suffering with toothache for five days ...

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 ...