Bryanna,

Thank you for your encouragement. I returned to the oral surgeon again. My face had swollen so huge and was hot to the touch that the infection was pretty evident. He did finally do X-rays where it was determined that I did indeed have a very large and very infected abscess. Emergency incision and drainage was performed yesterday and aside from healing an incision and stitches again I feel so, so much better.

I'm not mad at the surgeon, I think he truly believed I was not infected, but I did learn I should have trusted my instincts and advocated for myself more. I knew it was an abscess for weeks before it was treated.

Thanks again Bryanna.