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Suggest Treatment For A Swollen Jaw Line

My son has a mole on his chin, he pulled a hair out of it. Now his jaw line is a bit swollen and some pus has come out. We have cleaned it with peroxide and put neosporin on it. Should he have it looked at by our doctor and possibly need to be on antibotics?
Tue, 9 Sep 2014
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Thanks for consulting HCM

Read your query as your son had swollen jaw woth pus discharge possibly pus discharge can be due to infection in tooth or in infection in gum that is infection in periodontal ligaments . So for this you should have to consult dentist and go for tm visual examination of gum if needed go for investigations iopa xray of region of pus discharge and go for its treatment .
Possibly Treatment for infection in gums is curretage and oral prophylaxis , if infection is there in tooth then root canal treatment should be done . Inmeantime you do warm saline rinses 2 , 3 times a day amd you can take antibiotic like amoxicillin or ofloxacine by consulting with you local doctor.

Hope this will help you.
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Suggest Treatment For A Swollen Jaw Line

Hello Thanks for consulting HCM Read your query as your son had swollen jaw woth pus discharge possibly pus discharge can be due to infection in tooth or in infection in gum that is infection in periodontal ligaments . So for this you should have to consult dentist and go for tm visual examination of gum if needed go for investigations iopa xray of region of pus discharge and go for its treatment . Possibly Treatment for infection in gums is curretage and oral prophylaxis , if infection is there in tooth then root canal treatment should be done . Inmeantime you do warm saline rinses 2 , 3 times a day amd you can take antibiotic like amoxicillin or ofloxacine by consulting with you local doctor. Hope this will help you.