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Nogodsnomasters
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Hi everyone, (sorry if this is long)
2 weeks ago I took a toothache that was quite severe, went to the dentist who xrayed and said I had quite a bad abcess underneath a crowned tooth, he said the infection was beginning to spread to an adjacent tooth mildly also. He advised the abcess tooth would need to be extracted. I was in so much pain and had facial swelling I was crying in the chair and asked him to remove it there and then. He attempted to numb me but couldn't and advised I'd need to start a course of antibiotics to help the infection settle a little so I could be numbed. I took 24hrs worth of antibiotics and returned the following day where thankfully I was able to be numbed this time and the tooth was removed, he drained underneath it and also had to squeeze my gum to release pus.
I finished the 5 day course of antibiotics, I waited 24hrs after extraction and then began salt water rinses for two days, I was petrified of dry socket so I was extremely careful and followed all the rules. The swelling subsided after around 4 days. I'm now 11 days post extraction and feel I should be back to normal surely? The extraction site itself I'm having no problems with, but my gum still feels not right - I want to say numb almost? And my adjacent tooth feels like it has pressure inside it when I bite together with my top teeth, there is no pain but I fear that my abcess actually began the same way with a pressure feeling inside the crown tooth around 2 days before the pain began so I'm highly anxious over the comment he made about the infection being a little in the next tooth, he did say he felt it was minor enough that the antibiotic would clear it up and having the main source drained but this has not been enough to reassure me.
The idea of having to go through that again, the pain, the swelling and further treatments in the chair is making me a bumbling emotional mess. My husband thinks I am worried over nothing as I'm not in actual pain and maybe he's right.
Has anyone been through this who could offer some examples of how it panned out for them? I've had wisdom teeth removed but never had an abcess before so this is all new to me.
Thank you if you made it this far.
2 weeks ago I took a toothache that was quite severe, went to the dentist who xrayed and said I had quite a bad abcess underneath a crowned tooth, he said the infection was beginning to spread to an adjacent tooth mildly also. He advised the abcess tooth would need to be extracted. I was in so much pain and had facial swelling I was crying in the chair and asked him to remove it there and then. He attempted to numb me but couldn't and advised I'd need to start a course of antibiotics to help the infection settle a little so I could be numbed. I took 24hrs worth of antibiotics and returned the following day where thankfully I was able to be numbed this time and the tooth was removed, he drained underneath it and also had to squeeze my gum to release pus.
I finished the 5 day course of antibiotics, I waited 24hrs after extraction and then began salt water rinses for two days, I was petrified of dry socket so I was extremely careful and followed all the rules. The swelling subsided after around 4 days. I'm now 11 days post extraction and feel I should be back to normal surely? The extraction site itself I'm having no problems with, but my gum still feels not right - I want to say numb almost? And my adjacent tooth feels like it has pressure inside it when I bite together with my top teeth, there is no pain but I fear that my abcess actually began the same way with a pressure feeling inside the crown tooth around 2 days before the pain began so I'm highly anxious over the comment he made about the infection being a little in the next tooth, he did say he felt it was minor enough that the antibiotic would clear it up and having the main source drained but this has not been enough to reassure me.
The idea of having to go through that again, the pain, the swelling and further treatments in the chair is making me a bumbling emotional mess. My husband thinks I am worried over nothing as I'm not in actual pain and maybe he's right.
Has anyone been through this who could offer some examples of how it panned out for them? I've had wisdom teeth removed but never had an abcess before so this is all new to me.
Thank you if you made it this far.