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What To Do For Swelling In The Lip After Biting It Which Is Not Healing?

Hi, I bit my lip 4 weeks ago and it never healed. Instead my left side of my lip has gotten extremely swollen and a white spot appears in the spot I bit my lip, please help I don't know what to do. It's in a very bad place which I keep biting by accident when speaking/eating
Tue, 13 May 2014
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Extremely swollen lip and non-healing suggests you hurt a minor salivary gland of the lip.This can be a mucocele.Visit your nearest oral surgeon and they will remove the gland with the swelling and it will not come back.
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What To Do For Swelling In The Lip After Biting It Which Is Not Healing?

Extremely swollen lip and non-healing suggests you hurt a minor salivary gland of the lip.This can be a mucocele.Visit your nearest oral surgeon and they will remove the gland with the swelling and it will not come back. hope this helps.