the antibiotics failed. the skin around the tooth is soft and the tooth is very painful. i'm 16 will a doctor pull my tooth at my age and any suggestions to cure this problem.
2007-03-24 18:00:19 · 10 answers · asked by vsuper15 2 in Health ➔ Dental
the antibiotics didn't fail. antibiotics won't get rid of an abcess. the only solution is to pull it. dentists have you take the antibiotic about 5 days before they pull it because otherwise the local anesthetic may not numb you up enough to pull the tooth. what taking antibiotics and not pulling the tooth does is make the bacteria stronger. i recommend you go to a biologic dentist so they can properly clean it and not cause a cavitation to remain. if you need a list of sites to find one, email me. it doesn't sound like they could even do a root canal on this tooth, but if they suggest it, do not do it, as they are toxic.
EXTRACTIONS
Extractions have to be done well. Normally they pull a tooth out, stick a piece of gauze in there and say bite on it. After the tooth is removed, the socket has to be completely cleaned so that complete healing can occur. If tissue such as torn pieces of ligaments or periosteum is left in the socket and covers the bone, the bone will tend to heal over the top, leaving a hole in the bone, and new bone cannot form. This hole can persist for the rest of the patient's life. It is a chronic infection that is called an alveolar cavitational osteopathosis or cavitation. This means that there is an infected cavity in the bone. These bone infections are only now being seriously researched. If they are fairly easy to prevent by proper socket cleaning, why is this not being done? But many if not most dentists have never heard of cavitations.
CAVITATIONS
A cavitation is an unhealed hole in the jawbone caused by an extracted tooth [or a root canal or an injury to a tooth]. Since wisdom teeth are the most commonly extracted teeth, most cavitations are found in the wisdom tooth sites. Please see the graphic and photo below to get a glimpse of what may be in your mouth and the effects it is having. The photo and diagram demonstrate the destructive and pathologic consequence of a routine tooth extraction. Dentists are taught in dental school that once they pull a tooth, the patient's body heals the resulting hole in the jawbone. However, approximately 95% of all tooth extractions result in a pathologic defect called a cavitation. The tooth is attached to the jawbone by a periodontal ligament which is comprised of "jillions" of microscopic fibers. One end of each fiber is attached to the jawbone and the other end of the fiber is attached to the tooth root. When a tooth is extracted, the fibers break midway between the root and the bone. This leaves the socket (the area where the root was anchored in the bone) coated with periodontal ligament fibers.
There are specialized cells in the bone called osteoblasts. Osteoblasts make new bone. The word "osteoblast" means bone former. They are active during growth and maintenance. However, the periodontal ligament prevents the osteoblasts from filling in the tooth socket with bone since the periodontal ligament fibers lining the socket act as a barrier beyond which the osteoblasts cannot form bone. In other words, an osteoblast "sees" a tooth when it "sees" periodontal ligament fibers. Since there are billions of bacteria in the mouth, they easily get into the open tooth socket. Since the bone is unable to fill in the defect of the socket, the newly formed "cavitation" is now infected. Since there is no blood supply to the "cavitation" it is called "ischemic" or "avascular" (without a blood supply). This results in necrosis (tissue death). Hence we call a cavitation an unhealed, chronically infected, avascular, necrotic hole in the bone. The defect acts to an acupuncture meridian the same way a dead tooth (or root canal tooth) acts. It causes an interference field on the meridian which can impair the function and health of other tissues, organs and structures on the meridian. Significantly, the bacteria in the cavitation also produce the same deadly toxins that are produced by the bacteria in root canals (see Root Canals). These toxins are thio-ethers (most toxic organic substance known to man), thio-ethanols, and mercaptans. They have been found in the tumors in women with breast cancer.
2007-03-24 18:46:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have gone to the dentist and he/she gave you antibiotics twice and they didn't work, then you need to try a different dentist. I had an absess on a tooth almost 20 years ago and he gave me antibiotics and they worked. He told me he wanted to do a root canal, but where the tooth was located I just told him to go ahead and pull it. But since you are only 16, I don't know if they will even attempt to pull it.
2007-03-24 18:19:08 · answer #2 · answered by charliesangel 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have had this before and there is nothing over the counter that will work permanently, you are only fixing it temporarily. A oral surgeon will need to surgically clean the infection out and and remove the infected tissue and tooth. The doctor will pull the tooth if it can't be saved and then they will most likely do a process which is called a root canal. The antibotics will not work if the infection is not removed.
2007-03-24 18:07:44 · answer #3 · answered by Nicole B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Antibiotics will not cure an abscess. They will only make it more manageable. Bacteria has entered your pulp and that infection has entered the bone around your tooth which is why it is painful and soft. A root canal will be required to fix this as long as the tooth is restorable which will need to be determined by a dentist.
2007-03-24 18:10:48 · answer #4 · answered by MoochDawg26 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just go & take care of it! It's more important to get rid of pain & maintain what you do have than risk the chance of losing more teeth by not going. I'm not sure what they'll do (never had an absess), but there are many ways to hide a tooth loss (if that's what happens). Good luck!
2007-03-24 18:04:59 · answer #5 · answered by Nici251 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good lord 2-3 years? Get your tooth pulled or somthing, I heard that it can in rare cases cause infection in the sinus and brain. GO TO A DENTIST!
2007-03-24 18:07:40 · answer #6 · answered by Cat 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sweet if you do not go and have the taken care of it is going to cause you more harm than good you will definitely get a worse infection than you already have and yes the doctor will pull your tooth at your age you are still young so that you do not have to worry about that. but i really and truly suggest that you get that taken cared of a.s.a.p..because it will lead to jaundice and that is poisonous.
2007-03-24 18:37:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
get the tooth pulled-the bacteria can enter the bloodstream and make you weak and very sick-obviously the tooth is not responding to antibiotics-
2007-03-26 08:44:22 · answer #8 · answered by lasterdebbie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when they told me absess i was given a root canal Waaaaaaa
2007-03-24 18:04:23 · answer #9 · answered by hkitty 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
go to the dentist and get it pulled out.
2007-03-24 18:08:08 · answer #10 · answered by wizzardrmk 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋