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sillybunny84
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Hey y'all,
I'm sure this has been asked in many ways before, but I looked through a few pages and couldn't see it. I beg forgiveness if this is the three hundredth time you've seen such a post and please direct me if I should be looking elsewhere
So, about a week and a half ago, I was picking up the dog (a Jack Russell). She flung her head back as my head descended and smashed her skull into my front teeth. PAIN. No bleeding, no loose teeth, though my upper lip was swollen. By the next morning, the lip swelling had gone but the gums around the teeth had swollen and it hurt to bite with my left front tooth. Still no blood, no looseness. It stayed that way for 4 days (no colour changes to gums or teeth), then I woke up to find the pain at 50% of what it had been and the swelling gone. YAY, I thought. It continued to improve over the next few days.
Two days ago I woke up and my upper lip was swollen again. I mentioned it to my GP but without redness, tenderness, or fever, there wasn't anything she could do. It was gone by the afternoon. and everything seemed to be normal again.
I woke up this morning with minor pain in the left tooth again and the gums are swollen. No bleeding, no colour change, no looseness. It's Sunday, so even if I wanted to go to the dentist, I couldn't.
I have a terrible fear of dentists and needles and pain. I am slowly battling my fear of needles and would like to start the battle against my fear of dentists, but I'm also an unemployed student with exceptionally low income and the combo is stressing me out something wicked.
TL; DR: Front teeth met dog skull. Pain, swelling; no bleeding, looseness, or colour change; was improving, now seems to be getting worse again. Terrible fear of dentists.
SO. I'm sure someone out there was experienced a similar thing (baby's head, friend's head, arm of chair, tree branch, whatever) and I was wondering what your experiences with healing have been? Is it something I should dip into my pitiful savings to get checked out or is residual swelling and pain normal after tooth trauma?
Thanks in advance sorry it was such a long post.
I'm sure this has been asked in many ways before, but I looked through a few pages and couldn't see it. I beg forgiveness if this is the three hundredth time you've seen such a post and please direct me if I should be looking elsewhere
So, about a week and a half ago, I was picking up the dog (a Jack Russell). She flung her head back as my head descended and smashed her skull into my front teeth. PAIN. No bleeding, no loose teeth, though my upper lip was swollen. By the next morning, the lip swelling had gone but the gums around the teeth had swollen and it hurt to bite with my left front tooth. Still no blood, no looseness. It stayed that way for 4 days (no colour changes to gums or teeth), then I woke up to find the pain at 50% of what it had been and the swelling gone. YAY, I thought. It continued to improve over the next few days.
Two days ago I woke up and my upper lip was swollen again. I mentioned it to my GP but without redness, tenderness, or fever, there wasn't anything she could do. It was gone by the afternoon. and everything seemed to be normal again.
I woke up this morning with minor pain in the left tooth again and the gums are swollen. No bleeding, no colour change, no looseness. It's Sunday, so even if I wanted to go to the dentist, I couldn't.
I have a terrible fear of dentists and needles and pain. I am slowly battling my fear of needles and would like to start the battle against my fear of dentists, but I'm also an unemployed student with exceptionally low income and the combo is stressing me out something wicked.
TL; DR: Front teeth met dog skull. Pain, swelling; no bleeding, looseness, or colour change; was improving, now seems to be getting worse again. Terrible fear of dentists.
SO. I'm sure someone out there was experienced a similar thing (baby's head, friend's head, arm of chair, tree branch, whatever) and I was wondering what your experiences with healing have been? Is it something I should dip into my pitiful savings to get checked out or is residual swelling and pain normal after tooth trauma?
Thanks in advance sorry it was such a long post.