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Old 12-03-2011, 12:53 PM #1
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Default Tooth/sinus issues

Hi, I'm new and I came upon this site while looking up info concerning my sinus issues.
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 head). 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 without any complications. Anyways, what do you think?
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Hi,

What does your dentist say about that upper tooth? The first thing to do is have it examined and xrayed. If it is fractured or infected, then your options would be to remove it or root canal it. Removing it means you remove the source of the infection and the surgeon can go in and clean out the sinus as well. To root canal it means you will be keeping an infected tooth that will continue to infect your sinuses making the inevitable extraction more complicated.

If the tooth is not fractured or infected, then consult an Ear Nose and Throat doctor for a sinus scan making sure to tell him about your tooth pain. It is important to also tell your dentist about the sinus pain just as you did here.

Hope this was helpful to you... I would suggest that you not put this off as it's already a long standing problem. Please keep us posted!!

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Hi, I'm new and I came upon this site while looking up info concerning my sinus issues.
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 head). 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 without any complications. Anyways, what do you think?
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Hi, thanks for the info. (And ignore my other posts that are exactly the same). I have a dental appointment in a couple of weeks (the soonest I could get in) so we'll see what they say. Fingers crossed it's not bad. Thanks again.
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If the tooth has issues with swelling, doesn't that mean that it is infected? Or are there other reasons for swelling?
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