I don't know if this will help, but there is a structural difference between my right gum, where no fluid comes out, and the left gum, where fluid comes out.

My top left gum did not heal like my right gum. The only way i can describe it as is my gum is smooth and then sinks down into a soft, crater like pocket above the last two molars. It is not firm behind this part of the gum but squishy. The pocket is is covered with healthy skin, so from the surface it looks like normal gum except with an abnormal ending. My top right gum is smooth and firm like bone all the way back to my last molar.

I've pointed it out to the oral surgeons I have seen, but they don't pay much attention to it. They jut say my gum healed weird, but I think it is contributing to the fluid coming out.

frostyjohn,

I agree with you.... there could be a pocket of some sort underneath the gum tissue that keeps filling up. Did any of the dentists probe with an instrument alongside the molar and gum tissue to see if anything drained out?

How are you feeling by the way? Still getting drainage without forcing it?

Bryanna

Yeah, but they said it was abnormally healed but nothin of concern in their eyes.

And i get drainage everyday for several hours (about 4-6 hrs) along with pressure and throbbing and some times headaches. It's been that way since i had my wisdom teeth out three years ago. The three year mark is this week.

The only thing that has ever stopped it is a medicine called clindamycin (150mg). I took it for two weeks and was completely symptom free. Then it started up again after about a week of not taking it.

frostyjohn,

BINGO!! I think you just confirmed the problem!

Clindamycin is an antibiotic that is often used for tooth/oral infections that are involved with the sinuses. The fact that this problem is chronic and this medication "eliminated" your symptoms while taking it indicate that at that time it was affective against the species of bacteria causing the infection. The fact that you didn't stay symptom free indicates that the culprit of the infection is still present. Meaning, there is something that needs to be physically removed. As an example..... if you have a deep splinter in your hand and only a piece of it is removed, the area of the splinter is going to keep festering until it is removed in it's entirety.

Have you decided about the endoscopy yet?

Bryanna

I have scheduled the endoscopy for January 30th. the sinus on side that drains is completely cloudy on the ct scan (i forgot the medical term for the cloudiness) , so hopefully clearing it out and having another round of antibiotics after the surgery will stop the chronic infection (and hopefully stop te drainage in the process).

frostyjohn,

Okay good. I know you are not looking forward to doing this but I really don't see any other recourse and you cannot live with this forever.

Take care and keep us posted.....
Bryanna