need some detal advice for 7 yo with abcsess

[whosthemumma]

my 7 yo has an abcess on his back tooth which previously had a filling, went to emergency dentist sunday and got antibiotics, went back to our dentist yesterday who said he will need the tooth removed at the hospital. he is very poorly, swollen face, black eye, cant eat. the dentist said it may take up to 2 weeks to get appointment !! how can I get this tooth out quicker?
if I took him to a&e would they remove the tooth??

no a&e can't take it out, AB's take 3-4 days to work, so should start to really kick in now. Sometimes a second course of AB's is required. if your child is cooperative there is no reason why the dentist can not take it out themselves.

What louismummy said.

Make sue your son is drinking fluids if he's not eating.

Call your dental practice in the morning and ask for him to be reviewed as he's still in lots of pain. When you speak to them ask if it can be removed there using local anaesthetic.

Poor thing, antibiotics can take a while to kick in with a abscess, I was told to hold warm salty water in my mouth ( around the abscess ) for as long as I could and spit it out, do it every half an hour, this encourages the abscess to burst ( which mine did in the middle of the night ), I was in agony and went to a&e, all they could do was give me pain killers, some hospitals will have emergency dentists but they often won't pull a tooth until the abscess has gone down.

I had an horrific experience with DS1 when he was six at the dentist with an abcess. The dentist tried to remove the tooth under local and he ended up with me and a dental nurse holding him down and him screaming and then finally being taken in an ambulance to A&E when he had a major panic attack and the dentist mistook the symptoms for a reaction to the anaesthetic. I can truly say it was the most awful experience I have ever had. Sorry, but it really was.

We ended up seeing a consultant who said in that situation a tooth should always be removed under general at the hospital but that the waiting list would mean that he'd have to wait for weeks and weeks. As a result we ended up making an appointment with a consultant who did private work and having it removed under general at the local private hospital. That consultant said that children under the age of 12 should never have a tooth extracted under local unless its very wobbly (although he accepted that it is sometimes done). He said its simply not appropriate. From memory it cost us a couple of hundred quid to have the tooth removed. At the same time they removed one on the other side so that they didn't grow unevenly.

We took stem cells from the healthy tooth which was full of healthy pulp.

I'm still waiting to have some teeth out at hospital, been waiting since October, finally got an appointment for April . I wouldn't want to put a young child through extraction at the dentist unless I really had too.

Ask if you have a dental sedation clinic nearby - my DD had a molar removed at one. They specialise in children/nervous patients. No need for a general anaesthetic - they give them conscious sedation, it's over quickly and they smile through the whole thing and don't remember any of it. X