What are the effects of prolongued tooth infection?

Question: I've been having a tooth infection for 8 months now, it doesn't or anything but i sense that there is a problem there as stuff always gets in the space between my gum and tooth no matter how much i wash, my dentist told me he has to cut the gum in order to extract the tooth (it's one of those that appears around age 20). Are there any health hazards other than dental to the fact that i've been postponing the extraction this long?

Answers:
if it gets infected it hurts bad. they can put you on antibotics. they say tooth infection can affect your heart. and other problems.

Other Answers:
you don't want to wait too much long. the infection could spread

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it you dont get it pulled you can end up getting all your teeth infected and haveing to have them pulled out peace

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