Hi E.....
Is the upper molar root canaled? If not, what makes you think the tooth is infected? Have you seen your dentist and had an xray of that tooth?
If the tooth is infected it could be that it is draining either through a fistula (pimple like bump on the gum or palate near the tooth) or through an opening between the gum and the root called a periodontal pocket. This would cause an on/off swelling and pressure symptom that you describe.
A long standing tooth infection as in the case of a root canaled molar or a molar that is abscessed can cause or contribute to a moderate to severe sinus infection that can be difficult to eradicate completely. Oral antibioitcs cannot take care of this type of sinus infection so long as the infected tooth is present. The first step would be to remove the source of the infection which would be the infected tooth. The sinus would be cleaned out during the extraction and possibly mended closed (depends on the size and location of the sinus involvement). Either oral or IV antibiotics are prescribed sometimes for long term, depends on the individual case.
Hope this info helps a bit...
Bryanna
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Originally Posted by entertainmentwh
Hi, I'm new and I came upon this site while looking up info concerning my sinus issues. I'm unsure if this is the place to ask this but here goes anyways:
I have had a sinus infection (or what was diagnosed as a sinus infection by my doctor) for about 3-4 months now. I was give two rounds of antiobiotics and I'm still having pain. I didn't think to tell the doctor that I've had an ongoing problem with one of my upper right back teeth. For about a year or more I've had simply pain with it from time to time. Sometime last summer, it began to swell and stayed swollen for over a week. The swelling finally went down and it was sometime after that that my sinus infection/constant headache and pressure has occured (and while the headache hurts in different places from one day to another, it most often hurts on the upper right side of my forehead). My tooth still hurts, not all the time though, and when there is pain, it swells shortly thereafter and when the pain goes away, so does the swelling, or swelling goes then pain. This happens at least once a day.
I'm really hoping that I just need to have the infected tooth taken out and that will solve the problem. Anyways, what do you think?
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