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Question:
Intermittent Pain: My mom wears dentures and is fine during the day but sometimes at night her gums bother her.
It is at different times and I can't find any rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes she goes for a week without pain and sometimes it's every night with pain. Help.
Is she allergic to something she's eating or drinking that is causing this? They say (both doctor and dentist) that her gums look very healthy. .... Visitor from IL
Answer:
Without examining your mother and seeing x-rays, I can't add too much.
If she has been examined, x-rays are normal, no allergic skin reaction present, then she may have issues from medication induced xerostomia-dry mouth, to a tumor or other nerve based inflammation.
I assume your mother doesn't wear her dentures at night as this is what is instructed to patients that receive dentures. I would pursue this with your dentist and see an oral surgeon, ear,nose and
throat physician or pursue a diagnosis from a neurologist.
Just because your dentist didn't have an answer doesn't mean someone else doesn't.
Wisconsin Reconstructive Implant Dentistry
Richard Winter, DDS MAGD
Winter Dental Associates
5323 W. Hampton Avenue
Milwaukee Wisconsin WI 53218
(414) 464-9021
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