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Question:
I went to the dentist two weeks ago because of pain in the tooth behind the left eye tooth. He began the root canal, put in a temporary filling and gave me a weeks worth of amoxicillin. A couple of days ago he removed the temporary filling and performed some serious cleaning and digging with something that smelled like bleach to kill any bactria.
He then put in a two part filling and sent me on my way. About 8 hours later I was in pain. The pain was coming from the gum area over the eye tooth. Pain meds were no relief. The next morning my dentist never opened and did not have an emergency number. I tried to dig the filling out then went to the ER. They precribed stronger pain pills. Still I was dying.
I saw my doctor this morning and he said I had developed an abcess? How did this happen? I was fine throughout the whole procedure then once he put in the permanent filling the same day I developed an abcess? My face is swollen to the eye. He then removes the perm filling via drill. Very painful - nothing drained. He then cut into my gum and sweezed the pus out then put in a rubber tube and stitches.
Can you tell me what went wrong? I never experienced this much pain even before the root canal. Now I am swollen and afraid of losing my teeth. I still have all thirty two. I'm 32 years old (swollen smile). Did he do something wrong? I am now on vioxx and clinidamycin. Thank you I am soo afraid. Visitor from NY
Answer:
Your dentist did everything right, however you had a necrotic abscess which
is very hard to treat. After the permanent filling is placed, the infection has nowhere to go but through your bone and gum, therefore it swells up as the body tries to get rid of it.
I would recommend that you also get a prescription for Flagyl 250mg. twice a day for 5 days if the infection does not heal. Take it along with the Clindamycin...just watch out for stomach problems. Eye teeth are notorious for these problems. Your dentist is doing the right thing, unfortunately you let the tooth get to the point where it is hard to treat without problems.
You should be o.k. I would recommend that you re-fill the root canal once the infection calms down. You don't want to leave it open more than 7 days, or the infection will keep feeding itself. Your body, with help from the antibiotics, must start getting rid of the infection.
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