Evening.
A bit of background: I had two wisdom teeth removed about 2-3 years ago. They were both impacted and causing frequent infection. It was done under LA at the hospital. I now have a 3rd Wisdom which is causing a lot of pain and has been for about 2 weeks now. I've been managing it with painkillers which I've had to take every day. I thought it was probably infected but went to the dentist today and he didn't think so. There's some localised swelling and he said I'd lost some of my bone but didn't recommend antibiotics. He also said unless it gets a lot worse or keeps getting infected he'd not recommend removing it as it would be difficult (It's lying horizontally). My teeth are overcrowded as well. I'm usually fairly good with pain and rarely take painkillers and don't really want to become reliant on them for much longer. He prescribed chlorhexidine gel. I've been using Chlorhexidine mouthwash for the past week and salt water washes which haven't really helped.
Question is, if it's not an infection, surely something else is going on?
It's very tender and red and hurts a lot when I touch it.
Should I just suck it up and hope it gets better or go back if this gel doesn't work. Is there anything else that would make it hurt like this? It's a similar pain level to when my previous ones were infected.