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Gum swelling for three weeks
After extraction of tooth no.8 on left lower jaw, pain developed at the adjacent teeth for fivedays. Then the no.7 tooth was filled. After about 3 months gum swelling noticed near the no.7 tooth. Antibiotic administered for five days both to no avail.plz advise
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Is gum swelling is accompanied by pain .what kind of pain dull or acute. Hws the filling done.a iopa is required before telling the cause
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plz take an x-ray of dat teeth(7)....an upload
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Does the xray reveal that decay is deep? If so, you would require root canal treatment. Or if there is a pocket that can also cause swelling. Do visit your dentist
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Might be due to food lodgement. Visit your dentist.
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Dr. Kshitiz Rohilla
Oral Pathologist
16 yrs exp
Faridabad
Antibiotics are administered to provide a coverage before any procedure, they do not cure any dental infection which is bound to reappear after the antibiotic course is over if the objective treatment is not done.
Correlating your description with your age, it is likely that the wisdom tooth that was removed had caused cavity on tooth number 7 also and in many such cases tooth number 7 usually requires root canal treatment after the extraction of wisdom tooth is done.
An x-ray will reveal the depth of the cavity in that tooth so that the right treatment option can be planned.
Regards.
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