Thank you for all of the information pained. I will definitely look into it. That is some scary stuff.
I am on day 11 after my extraction. I have been on 2 different antibiotics and have been seen by an OS 3 times, including an emergency visit on Saturday night for an abscess drainage. The abscess is as large as it was on Saturday. I am going back tomorrow for a follow up, which will include another drainage, I assume. For some reason the antiobiotics, first Zithromax and then clindamycin, are not working. I am allergic to penicillins. Ugh!