How can demise result from tooth rotting?

I read on a newswire that a 12-year old boy died as a result of an abcess within one of his teeth. Apperently the abcess travelled all the approach to his brain. How can this be possible? I also read that some Egyptian pharoahs experienced this and this type of tooth decay front to their demise. Luckily, I read too that this type of phenomenon is rare. If someone have any insight as to how this is possible, please let me know. I hold children I take regularly to the dentist for checkups, but if one of them be to complain of a toothache I'd cringe at the thought of what may happen. I'd embezzle them immediately to the dentist to filch care of the problem. I guess this too can serve as something someone too can swot up from this post. I'd appreciate any answers. Thanks.

Answer:
Perhaps the most serious consequence of an untreated dental infection is called Ludwig's Angina. As an infection grows it will spread. Most times a spreading tooth infection or abscess will chomp through a hole through the jaw bone and after through the gums. The gums will swell and eventually the infection will eat a hole through the gums and will drain into the mouth.
However, the infection can bear a different route. it can spread into deeper tissues or it can spread into several "spaces" that are present in out guide and neck. Will it is scarce, an infection can find a path to the brain, or it can pave the way toward the lateral pharyngeal space for instance. As it grows in this space, a person's throat can bulge and the pressure of the infection can restrict the airway, adjectives off the breathing.
Deep nouns infections are a rare but potentially incurable complication of pulpal abscess of the teeth. However an infection can progress rapidly from a toothache to a life-threatening infection.
im not a doctor but i would articulate because of a appendix bursted...the appendix takes surrounded by all the poison that the body produces...so i would guess his appendix ruptured....close to i said im not a doctor..if im right maybe i should be..lol
This is strictly a guess, I would influence it is from an infection that gets started surrounded by the gums and moves to the blood stream. It probably moves to the most vulnerable place and attacks, that spot. If it is not caught contained by time, then departure could be a result.

Like I said it is strictly a guess. I know that if an infection gets started and it moves to the blood stream, you hold a problem.
An abcess is an infection, an infection left untreated can return with into you blood stream. this is very occasional and you sound approaching an very concerned parent, so this is hugely unlikely to occur within your children. Since you take them reguarly to the dentist , and don't rebuff symptoms, such as swelling or pus in the gums, you enjoy nothing to verbs about. Egyptians did'nt enjoy antibotics, which cure an infection pretty fast!
MANUEL,
YOU ARE VERY CORRECT. DENTAL ABSCESSES HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO KILL PEOPLE. THIS IS A PRIMARY REASON WHY FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS PEOPLE EXTRACTED PAINFUL TEETH.
IT'S ONLY BEEN IN THE LAST CENTURY OR SO THAT KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS IN DENTISTRY HAVE ENABLED PEOPLE TO KEEP THEIR TEETH LONGER.

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