And will it stop me getting my wisdom tooth extracted on Wednesday?
History - have had tenderness in upper back molars one side for more than 3 months now. At one point it changed from sensitivity to excruciating pain, I went to the dentist who couldn’t see anything particularly wrong but it then resolved when I came down with a cold a few days later so I think was my sinuses.
Then a few days after this subsided (about 8 weeks ago) I had a sudden pain on biting in the same area and this sort of niggled on for a few weeks and the gum above it became sore. Pain now isolated to wisdom tooth on that side. I went back to the same dentist who again couldn’t see anything wrong either with examination or X-ray, but offered me the choice of either giving it a good clean or just having extracted. Because I’m fed up of it now I chose the latter, appointment booked for the next time I had childcare which is this Wednesday.
This was about a week ago, and since then I seem to have grown a lump in the gum above this tooth - it’s tender but not excruciating, nor particularly red. What is it and do I need to let my dentist know before I go in to have the tooth removed?