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Diagnosis of Dental abscess

Dental abscesses are easy to diagnose. You may have an abscess if local pain is made worse by pressing or chewing on the affected tooth. If the pain is more vague and you cannot tell which tooth is affected your dentist will tap the teeth to determine which one is tender.  

A dental X-ray will usually make the diagnosis clear, although in the early stages of an abscess, before infection has eaten away the bone around the end of the tooth root, the abscess may not show on x-ray .

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