How long before swelling goes away?

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I've had an abscess the past few days, I'm on day 2 of antibiotics and I've had a tooth pulled at lunch time today. How long before I stop looking like the elephant man? The swelling is not good for my health anxiety and I'm trying to avoid mirrors so as to keep calm. I've had tooth infections before and wisdom teeth removed but never had facial swelling before. The dentist squeezed pus out of my gum before removing the tooth 😫 anyone got experience of how long I'm looking at?

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Does anyone have any advice? I'm now about 20hrs post extraction and still swollen to the same level. I am still also experiencing pain but nowhere near the same extent as I was before the extraction, some of the adjacent teeth hurt, would this be because the infection is still there and will the antibiotics help this settle? Today will be day 3 of antibiotics.

Are you regularly rinsing with salt and taking ibuprofen and paracetamol?

Thank you for answering, I have been taking ibuprofen and paracetamol since the extraction yes, they are working better than they were before the tooth was removed but not 100%, the dentist advised me not to rinse my mouth for the first 24hrs so I have done my first salt water rinse this afternoon and will do another later as well. I'm still pretty swollen on half of my chin and my left cheek. At least 3 of my adjacent teeth are feeling pain. I'm so worried the infection has spread and if so what does that mean for my other teeth 😥

I think as long as it isn't getting worse then that's a good sign, it takes a while for things to settle down after dental work and it sounds like yours was nasty. It wouldn't hurt to ring the dentist and ask if this is what they'd expect on day 3 or 4.