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NUMB CHIN AND LOWER LIP
HAD LOWER LEFT WISDOM TOOTH OUT TUESDAY AND NOW IT IS SEVEN DAYS LATER AND STILL HAVE LEFT LOWER LIP AND LEFT SIDE OF CHIN NUMBNESS AND FRONT LOWER TEETH AND GUM ON INSIDE ALSO..GOING BACK TO ORAL SURGEON ON THURSDAY TO SEE WHAT HE SAYS..ALSO ALTHOUGH THERE IS THE NUMBNESS I HAVE PERIODIC ITCHING FEELING AND CRAWLEY FEELINGS IN MY CHIN AND LIP, DOES THIS MEAN I HAVE INFERIOR ALVELOAR NERVE DAMAGE..WILL IT GET BETTER IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN TAKE TO HELP THIS SITUATION..THANKS FOR THE HELP
I found this form while looking for answers, I too had wisdom teeth extraction and was told about the risk, they told me I had a 5% - 10% chance this was going to happen .. actualy one Dr refused to remove them as he told me this might damage ur lips and chin and advised me to leave it alone.. I wish I listen to him ..any way I woke up with numbness in my right lip and chin and sore front teeth.. I can feel my lip and chin .. hotcold .. pain but it feels weird.. I ddnt see my dentist as they told me u dont need a follow up ..if u want come to the emergincy clinic for double the fees -_- ! any ways I was in paaaaain for almost a week and a half .. I had to take time out of work.. umm I am now almost 2 and half weeks after.. I feel better that the tightness losen a little or maybe I got use to it.. I feel fine if I dont talk or touch my face..but it gets annoying if I touch my face... although I ddnt go to my dentist after my sister is a neurologist , she did the tissue paper test and said that as long as I feel something am probbly going to heal it would just take time.. she suggusted some pills to help if am very irritated with the numbness but I dont want to so this is an option ppl can go to a neurologist and ask for some madication.. I try to not be upset because of this and try to think positive.. thing of ppl who lost an arm or cant walk or got paralized and just know that time will heal us.. I will try to update as much as I can
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am a 25 yr old female .. also I had some numbness in my nose from a nose job that heald fast .. although I suffered from weird uper lips stiffness " couldnt simle" that heald 80% after 10 months.. seems like every time someone pokes my face I get nerve damage :( no appadorul for me. !
Hjr123,
You’ve been through a lot in your young age with your nose job and now wisdom tooth extraction.
What I can tell you is by far, the early days are the most difficult. If you feel panicky, consider taking an anti-anxiety med like xanax or ativan…but only if your doctor agrees of course through a prescription. You will get better…more on a monthly basis than a daily basis…nerves heal dreadfully slow.
If you come up with a medication that works for reducing pain as prescribed by your neurologist relative, please share this information on the forum if you would. So far many have struggled with neuropathic meds taking the sting out of pain due to this nerve injury….but medicine changes constantly and hopefully there will be things on the horizon to help those who continue to be injured based upon tooth extractions who come to this forum for support.
Good luck. People on this forum know what you are going through. Better days ahead and post with any concerns.
You’ve been through a lot in your young age with your nose job and now wisdom tooth extraction.
What I can tell you is by far, the early days are the most difficult. If you feel panicky, consider taking an anti-anxiety med like xanax or ativan…but only if your doctor agrees of course through a prescription. You will get better…more on a monthly basis than a daily basis…nerves heal dreadfully slow.
If you come up with a medication that works for reducing pain as prescribed by your neurologist relative, please share this information on the forum if you would. So far many have struggled with neuropathic meds taking the sting out of pain due to this nerve injury….but medicine changes constantly and hopefully there will be things on the horizon to help those who continue to be injured based upon tooth extractions who come to this forum for support.
Good luck. People on this forum know what you are going through. Better days ahead and post with any concerns.
Hi everyone! Hope you remember me. Sorry I have been away so long. It has been just over 3 years since my injury. I would love to say that I'm totally healed, but there is a residual feeling that is different than the normal side.
I don't think about it much, but just went to the dentist and it reminded me to come back and give you an update. I have no pain - on occasion I will feel a slight tightness or pinching. I would say it is centered on my lower eye tooth. I have no numbness, but the sensation is different than normal - hard to describe. If I press on the area it is more noticeable, it is there, but doesn't really bother me.
Hope you are all happy and healing. Wishing you the best and praying for your full recovery. Xoxo
I don't think about it much, but just went to the dentist and it reminded me to come back and give you an update. I have no pain - on occasion I will feel a slight tightness or pinching. I would say it is centered on my lower eye tooth. I have no numbness, but the sensation is different than normal - hard to describe. If I press on the area it is more noticeable, it is there, but doesn't really bother me.
Hope you are all happy and healing. Wishing you the best and praying for your full recovery. Xoxo
Timeheals I believe you are absolutely correct about the age of the person. This goes for any type of injury or sickness I believe. I'm so sorry you are still in the healing process this long after your surgery. Do you think you are almost back to normal? I do believe if we have healed this much thus far, it's almost certain it will heal completely. So as you've said in the past, you must focus on that! Good luck to you all
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Thanks for your sympathy Smorat...much appreciated. We are all in this together but of course some heal quicker than others. I think more than a little can be gleaned by the 'trajectory' of one's healing process. Sounds like you have made great strides in a relatively quick period of time...in relative terms...nerves regenerate dreadfully slow. So I believe your prospects in particular are quite positive for a full recovery. By contrast, my slower than protracted recovery doesn't portend as favorably. I believe there is a chance...likely a good chance I will have a permeant deficit which is reported in a very small percentage of injuries to the IAN. This is based upon the apparent severity of the injury to my IAN and my age even though I am in outstanding health and an exercise nut. My fate is unknowable...but at almost two years and not close to full recovery, I would say a chance I may have a deficit for the rest of my life with this. Good news is...I can handle it moving forward because of the improvement I have realized which has been painfully slow. This injury no longer disrupts my life like it did. In the early days, I had difficulty even speaking as there was even nerve damage to my tongue which resolved about six months ago or so. A month or so ago I had a pretty significant scare. I regressed for a couple of weeks. But since then, I have improved. Seems to be the nature with this injury....progress with setbacks interspersed on a jagged path to recovery. I am hopeful...only a hope...in a couple more years I will be at 90% or better recovered. Meanwhile I have mended enough to get through my days and nights relatively unaffected now. I have come so far from the depths of despair over this and why I try to participate here and candidly discuss this complex injury with those that encounter it.
Heal fast and I bet you will be pretty much all better inside of a year as is often reported.
Best Regards.
Heal fast and I bet you will be pretty much all better inside of a year as is often reported.
Best Regards.
So great to hear Smorat. Wonderful to learn you are feeling better and continued healing! Thanks for sharing your progress with us.
Thing I have learned with all the information sharing on this board...certainly much more the dental or medical community can offer is...recovery is somewhat related to age...younger people tend to recover faster if not more completely...this even isn't an absolute, but the biggest underlying determinant of recovery seems to be magnitude of injury to the IAN. This is the only thing I can surmise based upon the broad range of recovery and timelines those injured have proffered. If the IAN is somewhat severely injured or badly degraded short of severing due to tooth extraction or by other means...needle injection, implant drilling etc, then the road to recovery is longer and more difficult. This is what happened unfortunately to me. I am quite sure at this point my IAN was very badly stretched due to my tooth extraction which the surgeon told me was extremely difficult. My road to recovery has been long and difficult and so far incomplete at approaching two years since my injury. I will say for me, as short as a month or so back, I had some very difficult days. But in recent days, my mouth has been feeling a bit better. A long way from well, but better. I can only hope that I continue to feel better as we all do.
Speaking of which a shout out to the collective here that may have one4love's email address. I would like to contact her and see how she is doing. Some here may recall her story. One4love's story is one of legend on this forum. She recovered on one side after 'ten years'...had numbness and discomfort and mostly numbness after five years and then after ten long years she woke up and discovered her mouth felt perfectly normal. Of course this give all of us with long term injuries hope that we too will recover over time as we live our lives. But then the unthinkable happened to one4love and she went in to have her opposite wisdom tooth extracted only to have the IAN on the other side injured and back to the same symptoms of discomfort and numbness on the other side. Hopefully for her, her healing will be much faster this time...again depending on extent of injury which is unknowable by even the smartest doctors.
So I would sure like to contact one4love and see how she is doing and wish her well with the unbelievable odyssey she has undergone...a fate none of us could even imagine. I sent her a private message on this forum a short while ago but apparently she has not been here in quite a while.
My best to all of you and thanks for your continued sharing. Hope is what keeps us moving forward believing there are better days ahead.
Thing I have learned with all the information sharing on this board...certainly much more the dental or medical community can offer is...recovery is somewhat related to age...younger people tend to recover faster if not more completely...this even isn't an absolute, but the biggest underlying determinant of recovery seems to be magnitude of injury to the IAN. This is the only thing I can surmise based upon the broad range of recovery and timelines those injured have proffered. If the IAN is somewhat severely injured or badly degraded short of severing due to tooth extraction or by other means...needle injection, implant drilling etc, then the road to recovery is longer and more difficult. This is what happened unfortunately to me. I am quite sure at this point my IAN was very badly stretched due to my tooth extraction which the surgeon told me was extremely difficult. My road to recovery has been long and difficult and so far incomplete at approaching two years since my injury. I will say for me, as short as a month or so back, I had some very difficult days. But in recent days, my mouth has been feeling a bit better. A long way from well, but better. I can only hope that I continue to feel better as we all do.
Speaking of which a shout out to the collective here that may have one4love's email address. I would like to contact her and see how she is doing. Some here may recall her story. One4love's story is one of legend on this forum. She recovered on one side after 'ten years'...had numbness and discomfort and mostly numbness after five years and then after ten long years she woke up and discovered her mouth felt perfectly normal. Of course this give all of us with long term injuries hope that we too will recover over time as we live our lives. But then the unthinkable happened to one4love and she went in to have her opposite wisdom tooth extracted only to have the IAN on the other side injured and back to the same symptoms of discomfort and numbness on the other side. Hopefully for her, her healing will be much faster this time...again depending on extent of injury which is unknowable by even the smartest doctors.
So I would sure like to contact one4love and see how she is doing and wish her well with the unbelievable odyssey she has undergone...a fate none of us could even imagine. I sent her a private message on this forum a short while ago but apparently she has not been here in quite a while.
My best to all of you and thanks for your continued sharing. Hope is what keeps us moving forward believing there are better days ahead.
Guys!! I lost this page and finally found it again. I wanted to update you guys. It has been 4 months today since my surgery and I am so happy to say that my lip and chin are about 90% back to normal! I don't even notice any lingering affects anymore unless I really think about it. It ***** in the beginning and everyone is different of course but you will heal!! I promise :)
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im still in shock.
Hello,
Is it in both sides?...or just one side?
Your dentist did something and he can deny it all he wants.
Two possible causes for your condition:
1. he drilled into the nerve when creating the fastening hole for the implant.
2. the threaded screw is sized too long for the implant relative to the position of the nerve and is therefore compressing the nerve.
Next Steps:
I will tell what I personally would do.
You need a CBCT scan to determine if your dentist did 1. and/or 2. above.
Not much you can do if he drilled into the nerve which sadly is much more common with this surgery than the public knows.
But...if the implant fastener is compressing the nerve the implant MUST be removed for any chance of the nerve recovering.
To ask him to perform a CBCT scan maybe beyond his scope...he may not have such a machine however many oral surgeons do in contrast to dentists who rely more heavily on xrays. Call around to see who has a CBCT machine and can assess 1. and 2 with the greatest clarity. This is tell you whether the implant much be removed and/or resized.
Best of luck. Recovery with damage to the inferior alveolar nerve is largely about the magnitude of injury...how invasive the injury was and your health in terms of bodies' ability to heal itself. You will not recover however if the implant is compressing the nerve and at this point, its hard to trust what your dentist says because he will try to protect himself from liability for injuring your nerve.
Many here including me...my IAN was badly damaged and I am still trying to recover...we each know what you are going through. Keep in mind not a single person here...and there have been others injured in a dental chair having implants...ever expected this to happen. None of us. Coping moving forward as we try to recover is difficult but some do recover relatively quickly and others like myself hopefully will recover over several years. The IAN does regenerate on some level...sometimes back to 100% but no doctor can predict magnitude of recovery or time frame.
Is it in both sides?...or just one side?
Your dentist did something and he can deny it all he wants.
Two possible causes for your condition:
1. he drilled into the nerve when creating the fastening hole for the implant.
2. the threaded screw is sized too long for the implant relative to the position of the nerve and is therefore compressing the nerve.
Next Steps:
I will tell what I personally would do.
You need a CBCT scan to determine if your dentist did 1. and/or 2. above.
Not much you can do if he drilled into the nerve which sadly is much more common with this surgery than the public knows.
But...if the implant fastener is compressing the nerve the implant MUST be removed for any chance of the nerve recovering.
To ask him to perform a CBCT scan maybe beyond his scope...he may not have such a machine however many oral surgeons do in contrast to dentists who rely more heavily on xrays. Call around to see who has a CBCT machine and can assess 1. and 2 with the greatest clarity. This is tell you whether the implant much be removed and/or resized.
Best of luck. Recovery with damage to the inferior alveolar nerve is largely about the magnitude of injury...how invasive the injury was and your health in terms of bodies' ability to heal itself. You will not recover however if the implant is compressing the nerve and at this point, its hard to trust what your dentist says because he will try to protect himself from liability for injuring your nerve.
Many here including me...my IAN was badly damaged and I am still trying to recover...we each know what you are going through. Keep in mind not a single person here...and there have been others injured in a dental chair having implants...ever expected this to happen. None of us. Coping moving forward as we try to recover is difficult but some do recover relatively quickly and others like myself hopefully will recover over several years. The IAN does regenerate on some level...sometimes back to 100% but no doctor can predict magnitude of recovery or time frame.
I have just had a dental implant put in 8 days & had no idea of any of these side effects beforehand, had I known I would never have had this procedure. My dentist said he did not hit or damage the nerve but during the prodcedure I had a pinching feeling in my chin. I now do not ahve any feeling in my lower front jaw , chin & lip...I am not happy about this. He said it could take 6 to 8 moss for full recovery. Now I'm wondering if it will ever be the same way it was before the implant?
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