I had my second molar on the left crowned four years ago. Immediately I got a sinus infection. ever since then the doctor has had me on antibiotics at least every 3 months for my newly developed "cronic sinusitis". I told my dentist that the tooth was hurting after the crown, but he said that sometimes residual - (or ghost pain) could be felt after a crown was placed on a tooth.
The pain on that side of my mouth got worst, and I had to get the teeth on both sides root canaled since then. Finally the denist sent me to an endodentist to check out the original crown. When he went to look at it, the crown popped off, when flying across the room and released the ugliest smell I ever encountered.
They made me wait til the following friday before they pulled it out. My dentist said that my problems would now be over. He was wrong. THE PAIN STARTED SATURDAY. I spent Saturday night, all of Sunday and Monday morning icing my swollen face and crying. I thought I was going to die.
Monday he tod me I had dry socket and packed it and put me on antibiotics. Tuesday morning it fell out, he packed it again but told me to stop rinsing my mouth out, I told him that I had not done that, but he didnt seem to believe me.
Tuesday evening my regular dentist was suppose to finish a root canal on the other side, but when she saw the condition of the dry socket, she worked on that instead. She said their was great amounts of puss oozing out of it, and it had not started healing, so she froze me, scraped it, packed it, and sewed a quazie net over the hole. She said that she suspected it would continue to drain for several days due to the amount of puss and swelling above it.
It is Friday today. Much of the swelling has gone down, but my sinuses feel raw. The dry socket is still oozing massive amounts of puss.
I went back to the denist in absolute pain today - 7 days after the extraction. He told me that he could repack it if I wanted, but that he thinks it would be better to just leave it open and let nature take it's course. He perscibed me t3's and some kind of mouthwash for the swelling.
Question: Will the puss oozing out of the socket impede the healing? This is the fourth day that I can visibly see the puss, it stops oozing for a few hours at a time, then it starts up again for a few hours, then it stops again for a while. Am I better off covering the hole while it is oozing? Will it only start healing when the oozing stops?