A treatment controversy exists about the necessity and timing of the removal of asymptomatic, disease-free impacted wisdom teeth which prevents pericoronitis. Proponents of early extraction cite the cumulative risk for extraction over time, the high probability that wisdom teeth will eventually decay or develop gum disease and costs of monitoring to retained wisdom teeth. Advocates for retaining wisdom teeth cite the risk and costs of unnecessary operations and the ability to monitor the disease through clinical exam and radiographs. Management
Since pericoronitis is a result of inflammation of the pericoronal tissues of a partially erupted tooth, management can include applying pain management gels for the mouth consisting of Lignocaine, a numbing agent. Definitive treatment can only be through preventing the source of inflammation. This is either through improved oral hygiene or by removal of the plaque stagnation areas through tooth extraction or gingival resection, which can be done with diode lasers atraumatically. Often acute symptoms of pericoronitis are treated before the underlying cause is addressed. Acute pericoronitis
When possible, immediate definitive treatment of acute pericoronitis is recommended because surgical treatment has been shown to resolve the spread of the infection and pain, with a quicker return of function. Also immediate treatment avoids overuse of antibiotics (preventing antibiotic resistance). However, surgery is sometimes delayed in an area of acute infection, with the help of pain relief and antibiotics, for the following reasons:

Reduces the risk of causing an infected surgical site with delayed healing (e.g. osteomyelitis or cellulitis).
Encounter or Encounters may refer to:

Film
Encounter, a 1997 Indian film by Nimmala Shankar
Encounter (2013 film), a Bengali film
Encounter (2018 film), an American sci-fi film
Encounter (2021 film), a British sci-fi film
Encounters, a section of the Berlin International Film Festival
Encounters (film), a 1993 Australian thriller

Music
Encounter!, a 1968 album by Pepper Adams
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster or Encounters, an album by Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster
Encounter (Mark Holden album) (1977)
Encounter (Michael Stearns album) (1988)
Place Vendôme (Swingle Singers with MJQ album) or Encounter
Encounter (Trio 3 album) (2000)
Encounters (album), a 1984 album by Mal Waldron
Encounters, an album by Sylvan
"Encounter", a 2016 song by Chris Quilala from Split the Sky
Encounter, a song in the video game Metal Gear Solid

Ships
HMS Encounter (1846)
HMS Encounter (1873), a wooden-screw corvette
HMS Encounter (H10), an E-class destroyer launched in 1934
HMAS Encounter (1902), a Challenger-class protected cruiser
HMAS Encounter (naval base), a former naval depot in South Australia

Television
Encounter (1958 TV series), a 1958 CBC/ABC anthology television series
Encounter (1960 TV program), a Canadian talk show television program
Encounter (1970 TV program), a Canadian political affairs television program
Encounters (TV series), a 1994 American television series
Encounter (Indian TV series) (2014)
Encounter (South Korean TV series) (2018)

Other uses
Encounter (psychology), an authentic, congruent meeting between individuals
Encounter (magazine), a literary magazine
Encounter Books, a book publisher in the United States, named after the magazine
Encounter (game), an international network of active urban games
Encounter (video game), a 1983 game by Novagen
Encounters (anthology), a 2004 anthology of speculative fiction
Encounter (sculpture), an bronze sculpture by Bruce Beasley

See also
Close encounter, a claimed UFO sighting
The Encounter (disambiguation)
Encounter Bay (disambiguation)
Police encounter
Encounter killings by police, killing in a gun fight with the police in the Indian subcontinent, sometimes an extrajudicial killing
HMS Encounter, a list of ships
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