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An abscess is one of those conditions you’d rather avoid in the city of London at all costs. It is initially the result of having poor oral hygiene allowing bacteria to penetrate around the mouth, but then further down the line this leads to tooth decay and gum disease- if left unattended, and either one can cause an abscess to break-out because the area below the root becomes infected. It affects people in different ways: for some, it may come and go yet, still be quite painful; for others it can be excruciating, with a swelling face and hold onto your seats- an abscess can even become life threatening. To treat it, means a course of antibiotics first to calm any swelling and to quell the poisons that seep out of the abscess and into the bloodstream; being a result of tooth decay, you will need root canal treatment too before the roots of the tooth can be thoroughly cleaned below the gum-line- the gums as well. However, that may not be the end of the story because by getting an abscess to begin with, means you have opened a portal to hell for the tooth: abscesses re-offend at their leisure and to cut off their supply line of attack, the tooth will have to be taken out.