When patients come to the hospital with toothache, dentists often ask, “Do you have heart disease?
High blood pressure?
Why is that?
This is because tooth extraction can cause all kinds of arrhythmias, leading to heart disease, high blood pressure attack.
The mechanism is to stimulate the plant nervous system through the fifth cranial nerve, and at the same time, it is related to the sympathetic nerve excitation caused by the patient’s tension, fear and incomplete analgesia during tooth extraction, and the increase of endogenous catecholamine release.
Common cardiac arrhythmias caused by tooth extraction are: tachyarrhythmia, including sinus tachycardia, premature ventricular beat, premature atrial beat, paroxysmal tachycardia, atrial fibrillation;
Sinus bradycardia and borderline rhythm can be seen in chronic arrhythmia.
