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Dean06
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It's been 4 days since my deep cleaning and my gums are still bleeding. Not just a "tinge of pink" in my saliva, two of molars are encapsulated in a clot of the blood coming from my gums around them. The clot keeps forming, but it seems like it's still bleeding despite the clot.
I have not been to a dentist since the 1990s, and last Thursday I got my first "deep cleaning" ever on the right side of my mouth. I had a bad buildup on my teeth, and I know that the gums may bleed longer for people who haven't gotten a cleaning in a while, but at what point do I need to go to a hospital?
I went back to the dentist on Friday, and him and several other employees spent an hour getting the bleeding to lessen. They then sent me to a "specialist" dentist in town who they called about me. They aid they may have nicked an artery or something about a lesion (they did not bother explaining to me what a lesion might be). When I got to the specialist, he looked in my mouth for literally 20 seconds and said I just needed to use gauze and clamp my teeth down on it. He specifically said there was "no way" it was an artery or lesion after just a cleaning.
I've been trying my best to floss and brush around the bleeding, and I've been using saltwater rinses every few hours, plus I tried a peroxide rinse and been using the prescribed mouthwash. It stopped bleeding for a few hours each day but started bleeding again--I think usually after I had laid my head down but not always (but I haven't been literally laying "down", I've been sleeping on the couch in a sitting position but with my head on a pillow).
If I go back to this dentist, he's just going to tell me to go back to the specialist, or maybe the ER (which is something I don't know if I can afford). Is that what I need to do? Or can it be normal for gums to bleed for several days after a deep cleaning? Why is it stopping for a while and then starting up again?
I have not been to a dentist since the 1990s, and last Thursday I got my first "deep cleaning" ever on the right side of my mouth. I had a bad buildup on my teeth, and I know that the gums may bleed longer for people who haven't gotten a cleaning in a while, but at what point do I need to go to a hospital?
I went back to the dentist on Friday, and him and several other employees spent an hour getting the bleeding to lessen. They then sent me to a "specialist" dentist in town who they called about me. They aid they may have nicked an artery or something about a lesion (they did not bother explaining to me what a lesion might be). When I got to the specialist, he looked in my mouth for literally 20 seconds and said I just needed to use gauze and clamp my teeth down on it. He specifically said there was "no way" it was an artery or lesion after just a cleaning.
I've been trying my best to floss and brush around the bleeding, and I've been using saltwater rinses every few hours, plus I tried a peroxide rinse and been using the prescribed mouthwash. It stopped bleeding for a few hours each day but started bleeding again--I think usually after I had laid my head down but not always (but I haven't been literally laying "down", I've been sleeping on the couch in a sitting position but with my head on a pillow).
If I go back to this dentist, he's just going to tell me to go back to the specialist, or maybe the ER (which is something I don't know if I can afford). Is that what I need to do? Or can it be normal for gums to bleed for several days after a deep cleaning? Why is it stopping for a while and then starting up again?