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Any Suggestion For Pain While Eating Or Swallowing After Had Stitches On Lingual Side Of Tongue?
A week ago tomorrow, my husband had a procedure done to have a crown placed. The dentist accidentally cut the lingual side of his tongue. The dentist did put stitches in it. However, the pain has not gotten any better and there is still a gaping hole. The stitches have since dissolved. He is unable to eat any solid food for fear of getting anything in this hole. He also has a great deal of pain when swallowing. The dentist did not really explain what he should do to care for this. He did prescribe hydrocodone, which he still has most of the pills. Just not sure where to go from here. Any suggestions. To add to the situation/we are in a state of emergency due to the weather--so the dentist he went to is not available to call.
Fri, 31 Jan 2014
Dear user,
thanks for using healthcare magic,
I had gone through your query and understand your concerns.
don't worry it can happen,wound healing depends on so many factors likes age,vascularity site,stress,caring of wound etc,
You need to gargle of salt water 5-6 times of a day,it help to heal your wound,
Take soft diet,and try to your tongue don't touch your teeth also,
Take some painkiller and multivitamins,
Don't be stress,
Wish you good health,
Take care
thanks for using healthcare magic,
I had gone through your query and understand your concerns.
don't worry it can happen,wound healing depends on so many factors likes age,vascularity site,stress,caring of wound etc,
You need to gargle of salt water 5-6 times of a day,it help to heal your wound,
Take soft diet,and try to your tongue don't touch your teeth also,
Take some painkiller and multivitamins,
Don't be stress,
Wish you good health,
Take care
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Hello, Welcome Thanks for consulting HCM, you said that you have injury in your tongue during crown cutting dont worry apply ointment for pain relief , you can apply ointment Mucopain 2-3 times of day , do warm saline gargle also and for pain you can take Tablet Combiflame twice daily for 3 days and if you wont get relief then go dentist.
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