Many times we can have a cavity and not be unaware of it because there are no symptoms, no pain. When left untreated, it can get abscessed. This is when the pulp of the tooth, the soft tissue, gets infected and that infection spreads down through the roots of the tooth. It is important to remove the infection to keep it from spreading even further throughout your body.

So what can you do to keep that from ever happening? Maintaining proper, thorough dental hygiene with brushing and flossing would be the first step. However, no matter how regimented we are with our dental hygiene, bacteria, food and germs get into crevices and areas that we can’t get ourselves. So by…