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sharon
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Hi, I posted this in Ask Your Dental Questions Here last week but didn't get any responses. So I apologize for double posting but I really need to know if anyone has a clue as to what could be wrong with me.
For quite a while I have noticed a terrible taste/smell and I was hoping it was all in my imagination. This morning I woke up at 1:AM with a terrible pain in my lr quadrant, hurt bad but didn't quite feel like a toothache. I touched the gum in that area to see if there was any tenderness (there wasn't) but in the process of doing that I realized my finger smelled like the taste I have been tasting (gross, I know). I washed my hands and touched other areas of my mouth. This area is the only one that produced the same "smell." (again, very gross, I know!) This morning the tooth pain is gone, I'm not even sure which of the three teeth in that area is the culprit. Flossing between all of them causes smelly floss (sorry, gross) but nowhere else in my mouth do I have this problem.
So obviously it wasn't in my imagination and I now need to see the dentist. My wisdom tooth back there is gone, the next two teeth have crowns, one definitley has a root canal, the other may also. What could be going on? What can I expect? I am scared he will remove the crown and the odor will be overpowering. All my adult life I have religiously had my 6 month checkups and have had all needed work done just to avoid major problems. But a year ago I developed a problem with dysphagia and with this my dental phobia skyrocketed and I haven't had a cleaning for 18 months. Needless to say I am sick with fear, both at the thought of what could be going on and the prospect of having to sit still in the dental chair. What could be causing this smell? ugh, I hate this more than you can imagine.
Since I posted this I bought some of those tiny brushes that get between your teeth and have been using them several tiimes a day hoping to clean up the area, I'm also brushing that area over and over but nothing seems to help. There is no food caught between the teeth, that I am sure of. I am afraid of so many things, lying in the dental chair, losing the tooth/teeth, finding out my teeth are sitting on a cancerous tumor, and this dysphagia problem I am having really messing up things for my dental visit (btw, I've been evaluated and tested for the cause of my dysphagia and no definite cause fount other than "probaby neuro-mustular."
For quite a while I have noticed a terrible taste/smell and I was hoping it was all in my imagination. This morning I woke up at 1:AM with a terrible pain in my lr quadrant, hurt bad but didn't quite feel like a toothache. I touched the gum in that area to see if there was any tenderness (there wasn't) but in the process of doing that I realized my finger smelled like the taste I have been tasting (gross, I know). I washed my hands and touched other areas of my mouth. This area is the only one that produced the same "smell." (again, very gross, I know!) This morning the tooth pain is gone, I'm not even sure which of the three teeth in that area is the culprit. Flossing between all of them causes smelly floss (sorry, gross) but nowhere else in my mouth do I have this problem.
So obviously it wasn't in my imagination and I now need to see the dentist. My wisdom tooth back there is gone, the next two teeth have crowns, one definitley has a root canal, the other may also. What could be going on? What can I expect? I am scared he will remove the crown and the odor will be overpowering. All my adult life I have religiously had my 6 month checkups and have had all needed work done just to avoid major problems. But a year ago I developed a problem with dysphagia and with this my dental phobia skyrocketed and I haven't had a cleaning for 18 months. Needless to say I am sick with fear, both at the thought of what could be going on and the prospect of having to sit still in the dental chair. What could be causing this smell? ugh, I hate this more than you can imagine.
Since I posted this I bought some of those tiny brushes that get between your teeth and have been using them several tiimes a day hoping to clean up the area, I'm also brushing that area over and over but nothing seems to help. There is no food caught between the teeth, that I am sure of. I am afraid of so many things, lying in the dental chair, losing the tooth/teeth, finding out my teeth are sitting on a cancerous tumor, and this dysphagia problem I am having really messing up things for my dental visit (btw, I've been evaluated and tested for the cause of my dysphagia and no definite cause fount other than "probaby neuro-mustular."