Your teeth may hurt due to a tooth fracture, cavity, broken filling, or an abscess in your mouth. Grinding or clenching your teeth at night may also cause tooth pain. Getting a sinus infection can ...

Pain from cavities can range from a dull ache to sharp tooth pain. You can have a higher risk of cavities if you have poor ...

An abscess is a pus filled, swollen tissue. It is caused by a bacterial infection. The body’s response to the infection is sending white blood cells to fight the bacteria. This results in the ...

Bacteria known to cause oral infections may also be a contributory factor in patients developing potentially life-threatening abscesses on the brain, new research has shown. The study, published in ...

THE ordinary lead pencil has long been regarded by physicians and concerned parents as a potential danger to the child. Injuries to the eye, the face and the oral cavity frequently result when ...

A brain abscess is a life-threatening disease with a morbidity of 1 in 100,000 people in the U.S. The mortality of a brain abscess was 30% to 60% in the early 1970s, but it has decreased to 0% to 24% ...

Brain Abscess: (Left) axial CT scan with contrast; (Right) T1-weighted with gadolinium coronal MRI. Note the ring enhancement both on the CT and MRI scans surrounding a central necrotic cavity. This ...