My husband had a root canal removed on tooth #2 (upper back right tooth) on February 15. The infection was large, included the cavitation behind where the old wisdom tooth was, and the removal caused a large sinus exposure. This Huggins trained dentist created tissue from my husband's blood and sewed that in, filling the socket with plugs created from his blood.

He developed an infection, had a 2nd procedure to "clean up" the site so to speak and stitch up the split where the infection came out, received antibiotics. He now has a fistula on his gum plus the sinus perforation has not fully healed so he can feel air passing through.

First question is the ENT said it can take 3-4 months for the sinus to heal and just to wait it out taking Allegra, Flonase and mucinex. He has just been taking allegra which keeps him from having any mucus so the other two have not seemed necessary. He is a slow healer so it's no surprise it's not healed yet. Does waiting it out seem right? The ENT said a gum flap procedure is what they do to fix it.

Second question is about the fistula. It continues to weep a whitish salty fluid that is stimulated to come out the gum by pressing on the lymph nodes in his neck or face when he feels pressure building up. It now twice has swelled then sort of popped like a blister. The fluid has been cultured and does no show any infection. It seems to fluid has been less over the past few days. Does he just wait this out, hoping it will eventually heal?

Thank you for any help you can provide!