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JasmineTilde
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For about a month, I've had a light bump beside my worst, cracked tooth in the back of my mouth (Tooth #19), just on the gum near it. It doesn't cause pain, unless I press on it very hard, and sometimes it doesn't protrude at all. If it does, brushing over it causes it to swell back down and doesn't really hurt and it's easy to ignore, but it usually comes back up eventually (hasn't in a while though). I asked my mother and sne told me it sounded like an abcess, and that got me terrified because I looked up all the ways an abcess can worsen and lead to death or bone loss.
When I went to the dentist, I had him look around in that area but he didn't say anything about it, just that the tooth itself is nonrestorable and I should have it extracted.
I was referred to another dentist for an unrelated procedure, and I've been trying to schedule since Monday, but they didn't return my call. Will try again this Monday. I hope it couldn't get potentially serious by then.
I don't know what I'm dealing with anymore. I'm just worried about my throat sealing up or damaging my jaw or it developing into septicemia and resulting in death, especially since the last few days I've been feeling the sensation of phlegm in the back of my throat and a bit of a stuffy nose in the mornings, which I don't know if it is or isn't something completely unrelated. Is it possible it's just some other kind of cyst?
When I went to the dentist, I had him look around in that area but he didn't say anything about it, just that the tooth itself is nonrestorable and I should have it extracted.
I was referred to another dentist for an unrelated procedure, and I've been trying to schedule since Monday, but they didn't return my call. Will try again this Monday. I hope it couldn't get potentially serious by then.
I don't know what I'm dealing with anymore. I'm just worried about my throat sealing up or damaging my jaw or it developing into septicemia and resulting in death, especially since the last few days I've been feeling the sensation of phlegm in the back of my throat and a bit of a stuffy nose in the mornings, which I don't know if it is or isn't something completely unrelated. Is it possible it's just some other kind of cyst?
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