Infection after Tooth Extraction

[oluolu]

I had a lower tooth (#19) extracted one week ago.  The entire lower left jaw area has been very sore all week.  I have been rinsing several times a day with warm salt water.  I was not given antibiotics until yesterday.  When I went to see the oral surgeon yesterday she said that the tooth was infected and that if it was not better in 24 hours with the antibiotics that she would numb it back up and cut a hole and let it drain.  My glands in my neck are stiff and swollen and my left ear aches.  Is this normal procedure?

[Hamidreza Nassery , DMD, FICOI, FAGD, FICCMO]

I am still trying to understand what Walter wrote for you??!!  

Anyhow, sounds like you have a dry socket, it is not normal, but it is one of the unpleasant possibilities..  if you are a smoker or if you rinse too much the first 24 hrs. you will have a high probability .. just take the anti-bio and if it does not appear to get better in a couple of days be back there for further treatment, and more could be done..just stay on it and make sure your surgeon knows you are still in pain..

[Walterlenny]

if you have serious decay in an adjacent tooth. Antibiotics and super brushing aren't going to cure it.Plus your mouth is filled with million types of organisms. You can have a tooth decay problem caused by one type of bacteria and a gum problem caused by a different bacteria. The same antibiotic will not work as effectively for one than for the other.

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