I had a tooth infection for a couple of months. It would only hurt when I chewed on it, it was never a consistent-on going pain. Well, recently, I got a really bad ear infection on the side of the tooth. Cleared the ear infection up, now I have a small sinus infection with a fever.

I don't have any swelling and I'm not experiencing any tooth pain right now. Just a slightly sore throat, fever, stuffy nose and headache. Well, I now have a strange feeling it's because of my tooth and I know fever is a bad sign. I am doing a walk-in to a local dentist 7 in the morning because I am freaking out.

Is this a sign that the infection could be possibly traveling to my bloodstream?

Hi Rosegirl,

Tooth infections do filter through the blood stream and it is not uncommon for the person with a tooth infection to become unwell.

Did you see the dentist?

Bryanna

Actually, yes. I went to the dentist this morning and had the tooth pulled. The dentist told me she didn't see much of an infection.. No abscess, thank god, but my last dentist didn't do my root canal so well and my tooth ended rotting and cracking since I didn't have a crown on the root canal. I also unfortunately love eating sweets. Lol. She gave me Clindamycin and some tylenol codeine for the pain, so hopefully I eventually will feel better.
There's a lot of fear mongering online. I pretty much thought I was dead and had toxins in my blood. I cried all morning about it. I think would should ease up on giving people death sentences. While death can play a factor in tooth infections, I don't think it's as often as people make it seem. At least I hope not. Lol. Thanks for your response!

Rosegirl,

It's important for you to know that root canaled teeth, irrelevant of whether you put a crown on them or not, are chronically infected teeth. Once a tooth becomes infected, a root canal procedure is done to give the opportunity of "retaining" the unhealthy tooth for an undetermined amount of time. The root canal procedure cannot and does not cure the infection brewing inside of the tooth. The infection is usually not clinically or radio graphically visible until the bacteria spreads from the inside of the canals through the tooth and into the jaw bone. So it sounds like, based on what your dentist commented on there being a little infection, that the bacteria was on its way into your jaw bone. So it was wise to have that tooth removed.

My intention is not to scare you but to inform you of the truth about infected teeth. A tooth infection can cause serious life altering health problems and yes, even death. More times than not, when someone dies from an infection of "unknown origin" it is usually from an infection related to the mouth. This is because the bacteria that lives in our teeth, gums and jaw bone travels through the same blood vessels that filter through the rest of our body. So whatever bacteria is living in our mouths is living in our blood stream. It is important for people to know that so we know there are health risks of keeping infected tooth.

Take good care of yourself. Hopefully you feel better in a few days.
Bryanna