What causes severe jaw pain while chewing? - Dr. Aniruddha KB

Severe pain while chewing is an indication that the tooth is infected. When there is a periapical abscess, you can have this kind of a pain. The classic symptoms are they have pain when they are chewing or pain when they are biting onto something very hard or pain when you consume some hot food. These pain, that is periapical pain, that is pain inside the tip of your root will radiate to the jaws or to the floor of the mouth and the neck. However it may not be restricted to the right or the left side. There are conditions when the jaws are affected. The connection between the upper jaw and the lower jaw is called as the temporomandibular joint. If there is a defect in the temporomandibular joints, then also there can be like those symptoms. The third is the gum infections. If you have severe form of gum infections, generally it can produce certain kind of discomfort. Generally the symptoms can be similar in quite a few diseases.