Dr. Katie To explains cavitations: chronic jawbone infections that form when extraction sites like wisdom teeth don't heal properly. Risk factors include low vitamin D, poor nutrition, and mercury fillings. The bone becomes necrotic and bacteria colonize the hollow space, often without symptoms.
Have mercury fillings. Make sure that you evaluate it. If you have root canals, make sure you check for it. Now, these are something that people don't even know they have. Cavitation—it's like a hole in your jaw that nobody look for. People asking me, how does someone need a cavitation? Well, it is like a chronic infection inside your jawbone, and usually it's happened at an old extraction site. People that have wisdom teeth extracted—lots of people in America. By the time they are 16, 18, or in college, getting wisdom teeth removed. And for whatever reason, for example, vitamin D level is not high enough to build bone, they have not enough nutrient or oxygen during the healing time, the bone never properly fill in. So it's hollow and then become necrotic and bacteria just colonize it.
