Mouth not healing after tooth extraction!?
8 days ago I had a lower molar removed. It wasn’t healing at all so I went back after 6 days. I couldn’t go back any sooner because I was 5hrs away in Spokane visiting family. To make a long story short–my jaw was broken from the extraction and the bone was cutting the underside of my tongue, causing an infection. So I had that peice removed, filed down and I got stitches to hold everything together. That part is healing but I think the places the dentist gave me shots to numb my mouth are infected. It seems like there is a ball in the back of my throat, on the side of the extraction, that is growing larger every day and it stings so bad it hurts to open and swallow. There’s a large lump under my tongue that hurts also. It’s all so painfull that I can’t open my mouth up wide enough to see if there’s pus. I rinse w/salt water + brush 3x a day. What does this sound like? I’ve been on penicillan for 5 days. How long should I give the antibiotic to clear some of this grossness up?
Oh, and it feels like there’s hot water in my ear.
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you should contact your dentist right away. I don’t think the antibiotics that you are taking is doing you any good! Gosh, you must have some awful pain with what you went thru!
Please do call your dentist asap…it sounds like you need something stronger!
Good luck!
get off the internet and pick up the phone -call the surgeon!
ouch!!! sounds very nasty. I would go back to the dentist or even a doctor for another opinion. Just recently I have had 5 teeth removed and other than a slight infection which penicillan helped within 2-3 days have had no other problems.
dont wait for it to get worse before you go back.
You need to go back there or go to another right away.
To find out more on oral surgery and post operative side effects as well as post operative instructions to help tooth sockets heal better, and to prevent nasal problems such as water in the ear feeling, go to http://www.oceansurgical.com.au/postoperativecare.html