Hi Buster,

So you had an incision and drainage done again in that same area. I am glad that it's feeling better but to be honest, I know exactly what your dentist is doing and I think you may have a pocket of infection that keeps filling up and it could be in relation to your sinus. A radio graph should have been taken as that may have be helpful to see if that is what is happening. Also, I am concerned that the OS has not confirmed that there was or was not a communication into your sinus. He should be making that diagnosis very clear as to one or the other.

Not all sinus perforations heal on their own especially those that are open due to infection and the OS and ENT are completely aware of that.

If this fills up again, please see a different oral surgeon and make sure an xray is taken.

Regarding the sargenti paste issue.... just so you know it is unfortunate that the dentists that often use this stuff, do not admit to it and there is no governing body to tell them to stop using it. Besides that there are other products that contain formaldehyde or a comparative substance that is used during the root canal therapy. Unless the treating dentist honestly discloses what he used, no one would ever know.

Bryanna


QUOTE=Buster23;1110223]Well, things are finally better! I had my gums drained. After that the throbbing and pain went away, but they were still swollen. A few days later I accidentally hit that area with my toothbrush. It bled like crazy and I thought it was a bad thing, but the swelling went away and everything cleared up a few days later.

Before all of that, I asked the oral surgeon to take an X-ray, but he said the small bones wouldn't show up, so no X-ray.

I asked the oral surgeon if I could have a hole into my sinuses. He said they normally close on their own and we should wait. I contacted my ent and he said the same thing.

I asked theOS about sargenti paste and he said nobody in this area (madison, wi) uses it. He said my X-ray from before the extraction shows gutta percha, not sargenti. Thanks[/QUOTE]