Abscessed tooth,is it OK to get five teeth pulled before the infection is gone?
Answer:
Many times patients have teeth extracted with an abscess or an active infection present. If it's in the patient’s best interest the teeth are removed immediately regardless of the infection. It's preferable to have the patient with a infection of this type placed on antibiotics prior to any procedure, but sometimes the extraction or root canal therapy can not be postponed due to the severity of the infection.
Antibiotic therapy is recommended to reduce the infection so that a profound anesthesia can be achieved prior to the procedure. Anesthetic isn't as effective with an active infection present, the infection works as a barrier weakening the anesthetic, reducing it's strength or keeping it from numbing the tissue and tooth.
If you have swelling present along with pain, you need to see your dentist for an evaluation immediately. You can also take 800mg Advil or Motrin every 6 hours; this will help reduce the swelling associated with the inflammation that is causing the majority of your pain.
See your dentist quickly, he will advise you about extracting these teeth and may be able to express some of this infection giving you some relief while waiting on the antibiotics to take effect. Hope I've been of some help and good luck with your procedure.
I hope you have gotten some antibiotics. Abscesses can be deadly if left untreated.
you will have to wait until the infection is gone. It can spread faster. Take the pills ~ some ibuprofen and wait until it's gone. Then get them taken out.
Most dentists will give you an antibiotic to clear up the abcess/infection before they do any other work on your teeth. The risk of spreading the infection is high when doing work in your mouth and most do not like to take the risk. Why pull out the other teeth so the infection can seep into that area where the work was done and make it worse?
If you haven't already seen or called the dentist, I would recommend doing it right now before the pain gets worse. Then alternate between hot packs/cold packs in that area while taking ibuprofen to help alleviate the pain. At least that is what helped the most with me. Not talking or moving my jaws alot helped, along with not eating much either.
Hope you feel better soon.
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