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After wisdom tooth removal lock jaw
Lock jaw and pain till return to eat and work
Please provide guidence I am depressed
Thinking if lock jaw is permanent what should I do
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Do warm saline rinses 4-5 times daily.
Try to open your mouth.
Chew chewing gum.
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The condition you are facing is trismus and not lock jaw.
It shall subside in a week or so.
Follow mouth exercises as advised by your dental surgeon.
Nothing to worry. Relax.
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DR MEENU DHIMAN
Endodontist
14 yrs exp
Delhi
How did you get a lock jaw?
Did you have some trauma or extraction or some other dental procedure requiring anaesthesia?
Since how long the problem is there? If it recurrent or happening for the first time?
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Don’t be depressed instead seek a remedy
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Dr. Shalini Nanda
Hair Transplant Surgeon
10 yrs exp
Bangalore
It will go within 1 week dont worry
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Dr. Aastha Mehta
Dentist
8 yrs exp
Dehradun
It depends on when you got your extraction done.
And whether it was a complicated surgical procedure or a normal removal procedure.
Difficulty in mouth opening is a normal finding till 3-5 days post extraction.
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Visit an oral surgeon/ dentist who performed the procedure as soon as possible.
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Dr. Pia Patel
Dentist
14 yrs exp
Chennai
Hi,
Please visit a dentist immediately.
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