completely fed up now . . I think I've got another tooth abcess 2 weeks after emergency surgery for same !

[Fakeblondie]

Can't believe this is actually happening.
k got the worst pain of my life a few weeks ago and ended up having emergency surgery and 3 days in hospital after complications of a tooth abcess. stupidly went back to work quite quickly after and the GA made me quite woozy so I think I'm prob run down too. I had a heavy ish anaesthetic as was out for a few hours and on IV antibiotics .
just when I thought I was all better and mouth healed up nicely , I think chewing on the one side for a few weeks has putressure on another tooth.
Was sort of joking tonight when I noticed a pain in my jaw in exactly the same place but on the other side. that's how my first abcess started. I've now woken up with tooth ache in the same tooth on the other side !
I'm so so scared of this all happening again. have taken pain killers and antibiotics which I had anyway prescribed from last time before I ended up in hospital .
Anyone else had one abcess after another ?
Also my dentist is Ely but I'm a bit worried about his skills now as all 4 fillings I've had with him have never felt right and all needed antibiotics after treatment . I also had an infection after he removed a tooth a few years ago. It's like every treatment I ever have with him causes a problem after. I'm wondering if maybe he isn't cleaning the cavity out adequately prior to filling ect and should I change dentists . Am scared of dentists though and he is very gentle !
God this must be a boring post. . . Sorry it's 4 am and I am well worried I'm going to be in stupid amounts of pain again for days on end. We have 4 children and no family support so it's really really hard when one of us is I'll and last time I was in bed for days ! X x x

YES change your dentist! I'm amazed you even had to ask that, and can't understand why it's taken you so long to decide! I had ONE bad filling from a dentist (insufficient liner between the filling and the tooth, led to electric shocks when the filling - amalgam - contacted the filling below) and changed.

There will be other gentle dentists, most of them are quite reasonable in the face of nervous patients, I've found.

Re. abscesses - if you're that run down, it's not that unlikely that you have another one. Very sorry if it's the case but you know what to do... get seen before it turns into another emergency surgery scenario!

The simple way of getting rid is to have the tooth removed, antibiotics should then clear up the rest. Sounds awful to have another tooth taken out, but the relief will be immense. Hoping you don't have to pay?? Good luck, toothache is grim grim grim.

Tooth removed this morning and huge abcess was attached and came out with it !

there's lucky then! Hope that's it now.

Oh fakeblondie no ,what a nightmare !
Where did you go to have tooth out ?
Hospital or dentist ?
Does sound like a change of dentist needed ...unless you've got some health problem which makes you prone to dental infections ?
If that's possible ?

How are you feeling now ?

Glad you got things sorted!

In defence of the dentist though an abscess forms when the nerve in the tooth dies. This is unlikely to happen unless there was a large cavity in the tooth in the first place. Sounds like you have a lot of deep fillings and to be honest any tooth with a deep filling can flare up at any time.

mycatunderstands hits it right on the head. It's not your dentist's fault you have an abscess any more than it's your hairdresser's fault you need your roots doing (if you do!). It's simply a consequence of past remedial work.

Glad you have it sorted. So satisfying when you see a blob on the end of a root (which was probably a cyst but that's just semantics...)

Um, no one said the dentist caused the abscess, far from it. But infections after every filling and a tooth removal is not normal and could easily have been caused by the dentist - linking said infections with the abscesses is a leap the OP and I never made.