...just an update on today - I'm on day 5 of the antibiotics (amox) and this morning I noticed that the discharge was no longer yellowy, but clear. It is still profuse and still tastes the same. Definitely a sour taste - a bit like lemon juice...I do not have any fluid or any sensation of anything when I drink or eat. The discharge only seems to be one way - out of my socket (or implant??) I am beginning to think I might have a sinus perforation but unsure of where is is definitely perforated. If the perforation was the exttraction site would I be more likely to have a two way communication or if it's coming from the implant site, would it only be one way (i.e. down the spiral of the implant) and not upwards? I could be jumping the gun here completely as my dentist says that my implant would completely seal the perforation if it indeed did perforate the sinus (and he's still not sure that it did). And he assured me that he did not see any rupture of the bony shell when he took out my number 6. He even went as far as saying that he deliberately DIDN'T take out a piece of gutta percha from the extraction site because he didn't want to run the risk of damaging the sinus so he left it in there (when I saw the x-ray after the extraction I asked him was it was left in the extraction socket).

SO much information - I do hope you can make some sense of it all.