Under desperation, I searched internet and found this web site and see what a wonderful person Bryanna is to this site.

In July 2009, I had my four wisdom teeth extracted. After the surgery, the other three were recovery well except for the upper left side one. I had mild pain on tooth #15 after the extraction which I thought it was normal since it is near the extracted site and the needed time to be healed. But after more than two months, the pain was still there.

I called the oral surgeon office to ask if it was normal to have the pain. I was told to come to his office. On that day, the X-Ray shows everything was normal, the tooth had no fracture, the gum healed well, but as he tapped the #15 tooth, it hurt. The surgeon was not sure what the problem was and he sent me back to my family dentist.

The next week I went to see my family dentist, and was told everything is healing well and just needs more time to settle. But the following week, there was a bump on the gum right on the top between the extract site and my #15 tooth. So I went back to my family dentist again and I was prescribed 500mg Amoxicillin.

He said maybe there had some minor infection in the gum. Since then I had six courses of different antibiotics to take care the infection. When I took antibiotics, the pain on the tooth and the bump will go away. But around a month to six weeks after I finished the antibiotics, the bump and the pain will come back. I went back to the dentist and got another course of antibiotics. During all the time, the dentist took a couple of X-rays and did not see any abnormality on the tooth.

The gum on the extracted site also seems had healed well. In December, he referred me to an Endodotist to see what the real problem is. The Endodotist did some test and concluded that root canal need to be done to resolve the infection and the bump on the top of tooth # 15. After the root canal, my #15 had more pain than before.

I called back to office and was told this is normal post surgery effect and was prescribed antibiotics for 10 days. 9 days after the root canal, I still had bad pain. I went back to see the Endodotist. He told me that my #15 had very bad infection and he can see couple of sinus traction.

He suspected that my #15 had a fracture. He sent me to an oral surgeon to take a look what the problem is. During the examination the oral surgeon press the tooth from the side and it was hurt. And then He asked me to blow my nose as he closed and opened my nostrils. The oral Surgeon concluded that I had two issues going on in the same time. My #15 is fractured.

And I had a hole between my sinus and the wisdom extraction site. According to him, there had a bubble come out on the gum where the wisdom tooth extracted when I blow my nose as he close the nostril. He told me that there is a gap created between my sinus and mouth because my bone did not grow and close properly after the wisdom tooth extracted. The reason the bone cannot close the gap because there is a skin or tissue fall into between bone and blocking the bone as it tries to close the gap created during the extraction.

That is why the antibiotics didn’t take care of the infection and the bump. So he would pull the #15 tooth, and would cut the tissue that blocking the bone, and fill the gap with fat that he cut from my cheek. What he said seems make sense to me, even though all the other doctors didn’t mention anything about the hole. We decide to do the surgery.

Before and after the surgery, I was priscribed antibiotics. After the surgery, the doctor told me, the #15 was not fracture, but it had been badly infected. It had cyst. Now six weeks after the surgery. I had pain on tooth # 14 which was a perfect tooth, but also had pain around the ear, and down on the jaw bone. But every time as I went back to the oral surgeon, he said it’s normal pain after surgery.

He closed my nose and asked me to blow my nose, there had no bubble came out. He asked me if I had any sour taste or drainage coming from my mouth. I didn’t have and never have even before the surgery. He sent me back to my family dentist to see if I need alignment. After meeting with my family dentist, he said everything looks OK, the gum heal well, no sign of infection.

But I know something is definitely not right. I had the pain on #14 right after the surgery. Some time, I feel sharp needle pain coming from #14 gum area. At beginning, the pain is not that bad, when I tap or push down the tooth, I did not feel the obvious pain. But if I use the bottom teeth to push the #14, I can feel the pain. Now six weeks after the surgery, the pain on #14 is increase. The pain increases much more starting after the fifth week of the surgery. The pain is just on the gum area facing my check.

The gum looks not red or infected, but if you push the gum, it hurt. Even with a gentle bite, I can feel the hurt on # 14. The pain is a sharp pain. I expect I will lost the #14 very soon.On my face (around jaw join) close to my ear area, I also constantly feel the burning pain. I also sometime feel the pain under the left ear. Some time the pain is going down from left ear to the left neck muscles.

All these pain I didn’t have before the surgery. It seems the pain is from my nerve. I know the pain is related to the nerve, but I don’t know how surgery on the upper tooth can cause all of these areas hurt. Now I really don’t know what the next action I should take. Who should I see?

Another oral surgeon or prodonist? I am worry if this is a very serious problem and will continue getting worse. I had a healthy teeth and never had any teeth problem before the wisdom teeth extraction, even any teeth filling. I don’t know if there is any end of these nightmares. If anyone can give me any advice, I truly appreciated it.