I had bad toothache, has gone but numbness & painful lump on jaw and tooth sensitive, should I worry?

Question

Tooth needs extracting, has a temp filling that has almost disappeared, hurts to eat and bite down

Answer 1

I'll bet a nickel that the tooth is your lower bicuspid. (left or right, 4th or 5th from the middle) The numbness is because the infection is causing so much swelling that it is making pressure on the nerve that gives feeling to your lip. It exits the jaw bone right by those teeth. Once you get the tooth out and the infection cleared up, the feeling should come back to your lip. But, please do this on MONDAY!!!

Answer 2

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I had bad toothache, has gone but numbness & painful lump on jaw and tooth sensitive, should I worry?
Tooth needs extracting, has a temp filling that has almost disappeared, hurts to eat and bite down

Answer 3

does sound like you have an abscess, you had pain in the tooth because the nerve was dying and was likely inflammed, sensitive to hot and cold temperatures, the nerve then dies and you have no pain for a while, but if not treated with a Root canal treatment it becomes infected, hence the swelling and pain. Depends how badly decayed the tooth is, but you will definately need some kind of treatment on the tooth, that being either RCT or the tooth extracted, you say it needs extracted but there are things like crowns and inlay/onlays that can be done to save teeth. without acctually seeing how bad your tooth is i couldnt say yes you would be able to save it, again it depends on how much you want to save it, how much time and money you are willing to give!

Hope this helps, and mean time till you get to a dentist try ibuprofen pain killers (as long as you not asthmatic) but do try see an emergancy dentist, or at lease doctor who will be able to give you anti-biotics to reduce the infection

Answer 4

A painful lump on your jaw is a sure sign of an abscess. You need to get to the dentist so he can prescribe an antibiotic and pain meds if you need them. After the antibiotic has cured the infection the dentist will need to either remove the tooth or do a root canal. Don't wait until the pain gets unbearable. See the dentist ASAP!

Answer 5

Worry? Girl, the time for worry has passed. Get to the dentist now! You have an abcess, which is going to destroy healthy bone around the site. You're going to need to take antibiotics to control the infection before the dentist can extract the tooth. Go to the dentist.

Answer 6

Better see ur dentist immediately! They cant do anything while the tooth is abcessed except give u antibiotics. Weird, but, i know of GUYS that "cut" the swelling with a blade or something sharp. DONT TRY THIS!!! Just go to the dentist now!!

Answer 7

My brother's did that, found out later it was abcessed really bad. The dentist had to give him antibiotics first for the infection, then he had it worked on. During all that he was very sick from the infection from the tooth. Be careful, it could put you in hte hospital if bad enough.

Answer 8

It sounds like an abscess and you will probably require a root canal. Don't believe what you've heard about a root canal. They numb you and you don't feel anything except relief once the infection of the root canal is gone. See a dentist as soon as possible.

Answer 9

these people r rite mate, its an absess.Its basically a tooth infection.Theres a tiny hole in ur tooth thats let in a tiny bit of bacteria..obviously food and its infecting the root.your dentist will try to treat iot by doing a thing called root canal treatment.he will drill a hole into your tooth and ..eh i forgot the rest., He will proply fill it.I had it done years ago !!

Answer 10

Abcess, no doubt about it.

Interesting fact, in York Museum they have a book listing the deaths of the folk of York for a month back in the 1800's, out of roughly 200 deaths, 36 of them were caused by bad teeth, pretty unbelieveble, but if you consider an abcess left untreated can poison your blood, and mostly did, then it falls into place...

get it treated!!!!