I recently asked a question about wisdom tooth pain... anyway, when I got up this morning I called the doctor and they called me in a perscription for amoxil for me. Isn't it an antibiotic? How is this going to help my tooth ache?
2006-09-13 15:05:52 · 22 answers · asked by Sarah 4 in Health ➔ Dental
I don't have them out yet. He said there was no infection, just pain from them growing in. I'm getting them out in October.
2006-09-13 15:09:23 · update #1
You probably have an infection he wants to clear up before working on the tooth.
2006-09-13 15:07:14 · answer #1 · answered by Stuart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The pain could be caused by an infection, and even if not, the dentist could be giving you the anti-biotic as a preventative against infection until you have the teeth removed. You must be certain to take this, even if you don't believe you need it. A few years ago in the small town where I live there was a young man in very good health (military) who died from having his wisdom teeth removed because he got a simple infection and he'd always been so healthy that he ignored it and thought it would go away soon. So dentists are very careful that this does not happen.
2006-09-13 15:15:25 · answer #2 · answered by JenV 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You tooth probably has an infection and that is why the doctor prescribed an antibiotic. Once the infection is gone, the pain will leave. The dentist will probably pull your tooth after you hve started the anitbiotic.
2006-09-13 15:09:57 · answer #3 · answered by cbellsew 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your pain must be caused by an infection. He wants to clear that up. Before they can do any kind of dental work, whether a filling or an extraction, the tooth has to be infection free.
2006-09-13 15:08:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your dentist probably assumes you have some sort of infection that needs to be cleared up before you can have the tooth looked at and/or extracted.
2006-09-13 15:09:12 · answer #5 · answered by Olivia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that is fairly common as amoxicilian is an antibiotic. Tooth ache pain is from an infection.
2006-09-13 15:08:51 · answer #6 · answered by WEIRDRELATIVES 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an antibiotic.
I think he wants to insure that an infection does not grow. My thinking is that the pain is from actual flesh being pushed giving infection an opportunity to grow. He's fighting it before it starts.
Get 'em taken out and he'll give you Vicaden
2006-09-13 15:16:52 · answer #7 · answered by mauihillside 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well for pain not sure but typically with tooth pain u have infection and amoxicillian is an antibiotic to cure ur absess
2006-09-13 15:08:29 · answer #8 · answered by LISSA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had my teeth scraped recently and over a month later now I have sore gums and sensitive teeth. Dentist prescribed amoxicillin, why? Is it because the woman that did the teeth cleaning mess up?
2015-07-15 09:33:18 · answer #9 · answered by Sharon 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They could be getting some infection right under the edge of the gum, and I would guess that would have been the reason for prescribing antibiotic.
2006-09-13 15:37:41 · answer #10 · answered by itwog 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋