Wisdom teeth infection - I need your help Bryanna!
 

Today is the 7th day sine that I had 3 of my wisdom teeth removed.
Everything was fine with some oozing blood on my bottom right site but that was since it wasn't a lot of blood. But yesterday, my bottom left site started bleeding and lasted from 5pm to about midnight and stopped at 1am when I finally removed my gauze.

It started about past 5pm yesterday - I suddenly felt some nasty blood taste in my mouth and I went to washroom to see if it was blood and yes it was blood. First I tried to rinse my mouth with water (not salt, couldn't rinse my mouth for the whole day since there was no salt in the office nor I was able to buy salt) then I realized that rinsing wouldn't help so I grabbed few gauze and had it for about 45 minutes.

After that I pulled the gauze out and saw that there was quite a bit of blood (not soaking the entire gauze but I would say 1/3 of a standard gauze. The color was dark red and it seemed to be coming out from both the extraction site (little hole) and the swollen gum (the swollen part looks like a little ball, but the size has been reduced since the bleeding). I have no pain though (I'm off painkillers since Sunday night and no pain, except slight tingling sensation which I am able to tolerate.

Some additional information:
1) I just started my period yesterday
2) it was quite stressful day with work (worked from 9 am to 7:30pm)
3) I drank soy drink early this morning to take the antibiotics and about 4-5 spoons of meshed potatoes and drank water (that was it)
4) I have brushed my teeth after lunch (not touching the site but just regular washroom water)
5) I have avoided all things that the guideline said (e.g. no straw, etc)
6) This ball-like swollen gum appeared about 12 hours or 2nd day after the surgery. Also, near this swelling and my teeth, there was some yellow liquid - I don't think this was a food debris because I cleaned this area carefully with a gauze, just giving a really light touch and after a while (didn't eat any food, just water) the yellow liquid formed again.
7) I was not able to close my mouth properly because of this ball-like swelling, if I close my mouth, my upper teeth would hit this swelling and hurts a little
8) Sneezed couple times yesterday but wasn't strong sneeze

The bleeding had stopped around 1am this morning and as soon as I took the gauze off the site it seemed to be empty (little red spot at the very bottom of the spot, I think that was part of the clot) and I rinsed with salt water. When I woke up there was a dark red jelly inside the site (blood clot) along with the ball-like inflammation beside it (the size of this 'ball' increased but not too big). At the spot where the extraction site and the swollen gum meets there's light yellow liquid which I could not get rid of with salt rinsing. I do not have any pain and the bleeding didn't make my cheek swollen.

The funny thing is though, that I saw my oral surgeon yesterday morning and he said everything was fine - he said that the gum was just swollen from the surgery and there was no infection. But my question is, why is that yellow liquid keep coming out? I am currently on Amoxi antibiotics and this doesn't seem to improve the swelling....

Please help!

Hi poiu,

The yellow discharge may be normal as it could be a slight infection that is draining. However, did the surgeon see that and talk to you about it? What concerns me is this area that keeps swelling up. Unless you are irritating it with your toothbrush or chewing, I cannot see why it would keep doing that.

When do you go back to see him?

Bryanna

when I saw him last time he just said its ok for the gum to be swollen and that he doesn't think it is an infection.

I'm going to see him tomorrow.

he didn't talk about the pus and said that the swelling is ok (he thinks it's not an infection) but he prescribed me a bottle of peridex - does that mean that it's infected?

poiu,

When you see the os tomorrow, be sure to discuss the symptoms of swelling and yellow discharge. He should explain why and what that is. Ask him if you are building up plaque, and if so ask where so you can brush better.

The peridex is an antimicrobial rinse. In all honesty, it's a very strong chemical and should only be used if absolutely necessary. FYI... It will also stain (temporarily) your teeth. Ask him if he thinks rinsing with salt water or baking soda would be just as effective because neither of those things will disrupt the good bacteria in your mouth.

Please keep us posted...
Bryanna