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In Serious Pain from Abscessed Tooth

Posted By Mike (Lubbock,Texas) on 10/18/2015

This is Sunday evening. last Wednesday I started noticing some pain and pressure on one of my back lower teeth. I realized a filling had come out of the tooth, plus now I have a crack/chip in the tooth from top to bottom. As the days went by, the pain intensified severely. By Friday morning I was in the most intense Pain I have ever experience. My wife and I decided to put some of that temp tooth filler in my tooth thinking I had exposed root.

By Friday after noon pain had increased. I went to dentist, I had no swelling at this time. Dentist said I had abscessed tooth and prescribed amoxicillin. Dentist didn't say anything about my home filling job, didn't remove it, but obviously noticed it. He said I should feel better in 24 hours. In 24 hours - Saturday evening the pain was just as intense and swelling had started. Now Sunday evening. I'm still taking amoxicillin but now my gums are swollen and face is swollen. Is this supposed to be happening?

Replied by Courtney (Granite Bay, Ca) on 10/18/2015

I've had that happen. Use ice packs on your face for the swelling. Even a bag of frozen peas, etc. will work if you don't have ice packs.

I've followed some of your plight and was amazed that garlic didn't work for you. I haven't had an infection yet that garlic didn't cure.

Did you use it often? And did you take it internally as well? Whenever I had issues, I would take a slice of garlic and maneuver it all around the gums of the bad tooth for about 10 min's at a time...repeating every hour or so.

I would also cut up a big clove or 2 small ones into tiny pieces, load the pieces onto a spoon and wash it down with a few chugs of water. I did this at least 3x/day.

Between the garlic slice 'massages' and the garlic internally, even the worst infection I ever had was gone in a couple of days, as was the pain.

Hope you feel better soon. Tooth pain is no joke.

Replied by Martin (Cambridge, Ma) on 10/18/2015

If your upper or lower jaw is swollen, this is very serious symptom. As you may know, the danger of an untreated abscessed tooth is that the infection can spread to your jaw or head and neck and you could develop sepsis, which can be deadly.

Please seek immediate medical attention by calling 911 if you have a high temperature; have difficulty opening your mouth, swallowing or breathing; have swelling on the bottom of your mouth, face or jaw; have severe pain that doesn't get better with painkillers; or have a spreading infection (red line moving down your neck, for example).

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