Thank you for the welcome Ginnie,
I realize it is the weekend and a holiday one so Bryanna may not be on line right now. It is good to have support in these specific dental problems it is too hard to explain to people around me.
I looked up the Dr. my dentist referred me to after I posted last night and he is an oral surgeon so that is the right step at least.
I think partly the reason this got so acute is that the dental guard I was fitted with in August still allowed my back teeth to be grinding and my dentist said that was why my back teeth had gotten so bad in the last few years. It seemed to help at first but I think my jaw got around it. I am concerned about grinding when I sleep preventing the extraction site from healing when I have tooth pulled.
Hope you are doing well, Terry