**7. Signs and symptoms**

The current signs and symptoms presented by patients with severe infections from odonto‐ genic origin are crucial factors for the patient's life maintenance. Sato et al., has shown in their eight-year retrospective study that cases of odontogenic infections call for immediate thera‐ peutics, either clinical or surgical, with precise daily or long-term monitoring of patients until complete resolution of the clinical infection status is reached. The most frequent signs and symptoms found in these patients were trismus (43.33%), fever (28.10%), dysphagy (25.24%), pain (24.76%), and swelling (20%), all of which are classic signs of a dire clinical situation.26
