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How Can A Gum Line Mass With Draining Pus Be Treated?
i have a mass growing on my left side of my gum line that led to the back of my last molar i was sitting at work and was bothering me so i pressed the side in ass hard as i could and the back by the molar popped and what looks like puss started draining it is yellow tastes bad and still just keeps on coming out everytime i press it i thought it was a tumor and was planning on going to a doctor but i just switched jobs and have no insurance what can i do i have a hole in the back of my moth now i feel a hug e relief on my side now but the yeloow puss that is coming out keeps coming out and tastes nasty
Fri, 22 Aug 2014
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Pus and swelling in the last molar suggests chronic abscess in the tooth.
I would advice you to visit your oral and maxillo facial surgeon and have a radiograph .If the tooth is impacted and infected,please have it extracted.
For pain ibuprofen can be taken (if not allergic to any medicine).Antibiotics like amoxicillin 500mg and metrolag 400 mg for infection on prescription.
Do salt water gargling.Do not apply hot bag externally.
Hope this was useful.
Thanks and regards.
Read your query.
Pus and swelling in the last molar suggests chronic abscess in the tooth.
I would advice you to visit your oral and maxillo facial surgeon and have a radiograph .If the tooth is impacted and infected,please have it extracted.
For pain ibuprofen can be taken (if not allergic to any medicine).Antibiotics like amoxicillin 500mg and metrolag 400 mg for infection on prescription.
Do salt water gargling.Do not apply hot bag externally.
Hope this was useful.
Thanks and regards.
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Hi,
Reading through your question, i feel that seeing a maxillofacial surgeon would have been in your best interests. But, since you have no insurance as of now, this is what i would have suggested patients of mine in a similar situation:
1) Start rinsing your mouth & nose with warm saline rinses
2) Start Chlorhexidine mouth was rinses
3) Take a lot of steam inhalation
4) Start on a penicillin group of antibiotic, Metronidazole , some decongestant and a painkiller
5) Drink plenty of fluids and keep yourself dehydrated
The relief that you got was probably because the tooth was infected with suppuration/pus beneath it. Since it was not addressed, the tooth got extruded and caused infected maxillary sinusitis as well.
Hope this helps.
Wish you good health. Regards.
Reading through your question, i feel that seeing a maxillofacial surgeon would have been in your best interests. But, since you have no insurance as of now, this is what i would have suggested patients of mine in a similar situation:
1) Start rinsing your mouth & nose with warm saline rinses
2) Start Chlorhexidine mouth was rinses
3) Take a lot of steam inhalation
4) Start on a penicillin group of antibiotic, Metronidazole , some decongestant and a painkiller
5) Drink plenty of fluids and keep yourself dehydrated
The relief that you got was probably because the tooth was infected with suppuration/pus beneath it. Since it was not addressed, the tooth got extruded and caused infected maxillary sinusitis as well.
Hope this helps.
Wish you good health. Regards.
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