Had an appointment with the dentist yesterday about a tooth that gives me grief quite a lot. It's a wisdom tooth that never fully came through so there is a permanent flap of gum that can get sore/infected.
It was starting to become quite sore and tender so I thought best to get it checked.
Dentist said it was red and inflamed but couldn't see any active infection and then proceeded to try and scrape/clean underneath the loose gum. It was excruciating, my eyes were watering and I had to ask him to stop multiple times.
Since then I can barely open my mouth, the swelling is worse, I'm struggling to speak and eat from the pain and my tongue even hurts and it's gone from being manageable with ibuprofen and paracetamol to being unbearable even with. I could cry.
The dentist recommended I continue to try and clean the loose bit of gum and when I've explained it's too painful his reply was to 'be brave'.
I feel like it's now 10x worse after he tried to 'clean' it yesterday. I'm in agony.
Sorry I'm posting for traffic here really but I want this damn tooth gone. Every time I'm told if there is repeated infections they'll remove it but they never do and the dentist won't even diagnose an infection this time because there was no discharge from the site.
But I'm unsure how it can feel this awful without anything being wrong?! I'm in so much pain.