Surgical treatment of odontogenic abscess at hospital level

Odontogenic infection is a serious public health problem. Hospital care is basically directed to the attention to the most severe cases that require immediate treatment of intravenous antibiotic therapy as well as urgent removal of the cause. Thus, the objective is to present a case of a 43-year-old female patient complaining of pain in the tooth region 24 with evident volumetric increase as well as spontaneous drainage of exudate via the gingival sulcus. Treatment after routine complementary examinations was dental element extraction under local anesthesia in hospital care associated with drainage of the purulent collection. After elimination of the cause as well as drainage, 48 hours after this the patient was discharged with scheduled return. It follows no complaints and no other similar conditions. (author)