Can children take anti-inflammatory drugs for toothache?

Toothache is a relatively common phenomenon. Not only adults suffer from toothaches, children also often suffer from toothaches. Because children prefer to eat sweets and don’t like to brush their teeth. Therefore, most toothaches in children are caused by tooth decay. Tooth decay is when parasites grow inside the teeth. The daily activities of these parasites can cause toothaches that are quite noticeable. So can children take anti-inflammatory drugs when they have toothache?

Toothache is mostly caused by infection of the dental pulp (dental nerve) due to gingivitis and periodontitis, caries (cavities) or fractured teeth. It is caused by not paying attention to oral hygiene, long-term stimulation of the teeth by soft plaque and hard tartar formed by food residues and bacteria around the teeth, incorrect brushing habits, vitamin deficiency and other reasons.

Toothache is one of the common symptoms of various dental diseases and periodontal diseases. Its characteristics are mainly toothache, swollen gums, difficulty chewing, thirst and bad breath, or intermittent pain, pain when exposed to cold or hot stimuli, swelling of the cheeks, etc.

The gums are bright red or purple, swollen, and soft. Sometimes there is erosion at the gingival margin or proliferative eversion of granulation tissue. The gums are prone to bleeding when brushing teeth or eating, but there is generally no spontaneous bleeding. Patients have no obvious subjective symptoms, but may sometimes feel itchy or swollen. (1) Deep caries: The pressure of embedded food, cold, hot, sour, sweet, and chemical stimulation will produce more severe pain. After the stimulation is removed, the pain will disappear immediately or last for a short time before disappearing.

(2) Cracked teeth: The incidence rate is highest in the maxillary first molar near the palatal cusp. Superficial cracks often have no obvious symptoms; deeper ones are sensitive to cold or hot stimuli or have discomfort when biting; those close to the pulp will experience fixed-point severe pain when chewing. Place a cotton swab on the cusp of the cracked tooth and instruct the patient to bite down, and a brief tearing pain will occur.

(3) Wedge-shaped defect: Initially, the symptoms are dentin hypersensitivity due to sensitivity to cold and heat. As the degree of tooth defect increases, it may cause symptoms of pulpitis and apical periodontitis.

(4) Chronic wear: Dentin exposure can cause dentin hypersensitivity. The degree of sensitivity to cold, hot, sour, sweet and mechanical stimulation causing pain varies from person to person.