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08-12-2013, 05:27 AM | #1 | ||
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For around six months I have been having varying degrees of tooth, jaw, ear and headache on both sides of my face. It started on the left side. I visited a dentist who took some localised xrays of teeth and decided that I should have a root canal of the second upper molar. The pain persisted so I had a root canal of the first molar but still without solving the problem.
I then started to get pain on the right side and, not being convinced with the dentist's diagnosis, I visited a second dentist who took a complete xray of the jaw. There were large amounts of infection visible under my lower wisdom teeth. The dentist prescribed antiboitics (amoxycillin I think) and removed both teeth three days later. For a couple of weeks everything was great. For the first time in ages I felt normal again with no head, tooth or jaw pain. I also realised that the infection had been causing general malaise, but only noticed this due to its absence. Now I again have slight but noticeable and worsening jaw, tooth, and ear pain on the right side and a general feeling of malaise that I now associate with infection. I returned to the second dentist who again took a full xray but this time nothing interesting was visible. He spent a while pressing parts of my jaw and face but there was no noticeable increase in pain. He sent me away without any further treatment. Any suggestions what steps I should take next? I need to get this sorted out but how? Should I visit a doctor? or the dentist again? How should I suggest they proceed? I think I have some kind of ongoing infection that was alleviated temporarily by the antibiotics. How could this be confirmed or ruled out? Thanks, Tom |
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