I'm swelling of my face what can i do? and my molar Hurst?

Question

I'm getting my face fatter i think i have a infection is there any thing what i can do at home for the pain or definity i have to go in?

where doctor or dentist? i cant feel my lips i know is related to my theet pain what can i do please!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Dentist ASAP!!  you need to go.  if it is a large swelling, you may need to even go to the emergency room for them to drain it & possibly remove the tooth. the worst thing you can do in this situation is wait.  swelling of that area is a serious life or death matter.  don't wait!!!

Answer 2

Try taking some ibuprofin - 600 mg.  keep your head elevated - don't lay down flat. Try some ice 15 min. on and 15 min. off to try to reduce the swelling.  Call a dentist first thing in the morning!!!!!!  Good luck

Answer 3

Like the answers above, you URGENTLY need to see a Dentist.

ANY facial swelling related to an infection can become VERY SERIOUS very quickly. Unfortunatley I know, as I had the same thing three months ago.

Just to share experience so you know what will happen if you go to a dentist:

I woke up one morning with enormous swelling to my left cheek, close by to a tooth that had a large cavity in it. I could see it, and part of my tooth had fractured off. I hadn't been to a dentist in 9 years, as I had an enormous fear, and panic attacks whenever someone mentioned the dentist, let alone brought it up in discussion. I was such an idiot.

Anyhow, after googling dental abscesses on the net, I thought it wasn't one, as every page said they were incredibly painful, and i had absolutley NO PAIN. I went to bed, the next day the swelling was worse, and the gums had started to swell up around the area as well. still NO pain. Once again, I was foolish enough to ignore it. Third day came and it was worse again still NO pain what so ever, but now it was starting to get in the way of eating and talking. I could barley open my mouth. I went down to the bus-stop that morning, to catch the peak-hour bus, and a lady who'd seen me three days in a row with this swelling asked about it, and asked wether i'd seen a dentist. My mum happened to be with me at the time, trying to convince me to let her book an appointment at the dentist. This lady at the bus stop really freaked me out, after telling me she had something similar, and she ended up in hospital for two weeks on IV antibiotics as the infection had spread further than the facial tissue and mouth.

I finally allowed my mum too book an appointment, but dentist couldn't see me that day, and could at the earliest see me the next morning at 6.30 am for an emergency appointment. He asked me to come in, and get a refferal to the x-ray/radiology department at the local hospital, and to get a script for antibiotics (500mg Amoxcillyn- cilamax).

I took the antibiotics (3 times a day) for that day, and it didn't really start to work, but I had the xrays done and the next morning (scared AS h**l!) went into the dentist surgery.

He looked at the xrays telling me that the infection (which was in a back molar) had extended so far, it was now eating away the bone in my jaw. It had spread alot further than the root of the tooth. I also had two other periapical abscesses in other parts of the mouth that required extraction, but they could be dealt with in a week or two. The abscesses which was causing the swelling at the time was most serious.

He also warned me, had i NOT booked the appointment for that day, I would (probably by the next day) be in hospital, with blood posionining or meningitis, the infection was very serious.

I had the tooth extracted then and there with 7 injections of local anesthetic- as the swelling stopped the anesthetic from getting through to the parts needed- that's why it took so many injections to work. (Eventually he had to inject the local at the back of my throat, near the tonsils, for it to travel down the main nerve, all the way down the front of my lower jaw).

when the tooth was extracted, he had to remove a section of gum that had started to grow over the fractured part, to reach the collection of pus and so on that had gathered in the space below the root of the tooth- where it had begun to eat away the jaw bone.

He drained that, and managed to get most of it out- leaving the rest up to the antibiotics.

Luckily for me, it didnt' cause me any pain afterwards. I also asked the dentist why I didn't have any pain in the tooth at all, with such a serious infection, and he answered that it's sometimes the case. Some people do not have any pain, the pressure of swelling sometimes cuts out the nerve signals for pain.

I now have three teeth out due to infections in my teeth, and I'm no longer at all scared of the dentist. I've had no pain what so ever with extractions, or fillings or root canals, not to say others might not feel some pain, but I was lucky.

Don't let yourself get to that stage- if it's not there already. Make sure you book an appointment ASAP. You MUST explain to the dentist when calling what is happening, and what it looks like, and where the swelling is.

Don't google it, and decide it's nothing to worry about. Swelling is a SERIOUS issue.

I hope it all goes well for you, and i'm sure it will. Just make sure you do something about it NOW!

It can be just a few days that can be the difference of having a simple extraction, and going to hospital.

Look after yourself by seeing to it.  

Answer 4

Get to the dentist or ER as soon as possible. You have an infection, an abscess that requires immediate attention.