I have a hard lump along my left jawline...any ideas?

Question

I had my bottom wisdom teeth extracted about 2 months ago and about 3 weeks ago a very hard lump appeared along my left jawbone. When it appeared I went to see my dentist and he said it was nothing and sent me on my way. About a week and a half later I got a second opinion from a different dentist and he was completely stumped, he didn't know what the cause was so he put me on an antibiotic to see what would happen. In the mean time I visited the oral surgeon that extracted the teeth, and even he didn't know what it was. The antibiotic hasn't made any significant changes. Any ideas or anything I can mention to my dentist when I visit him again?

Answer 1

i would seriously find a dentist/oral surgeon/etc and look at this.

Ive been watching alot of discovery health and your situation is similar to those on tv

Answer 2

Wow, that is curious, well depending if your male or not ( if you are) it could be some form of a cyst, or perhaps your mouth is just tying to cope with the missing tooth in an unusual way, you should get an x-ray, I'm not too sure but it could be something cancerous, or something completely harmless, i don't suggest you continue on the antibiotics since no one know what it is so they have no clue how it will react to medicine, i say you go to an actual doctor, not a dentist.

>Sandra J.

Answer 3

its a t*t in ur mouth??

Answer 4

my guess is your most likely growing a second head

Answer 5

It could be scar tissue, it could be a cyst, it could be a lymph node. .. the list goes on. Though I rule out all of the above because the dentists should have been able to identify any of those. It may be completely unrelated to the extractions. Perhaps the generalized tissue trauma from the extractions aggrivated an existing condition that is now flaring up. I would suggest you head for your physician. Dentists have a limited scope of practice and if three dentists have been unable to identify it then I'd guess you've exhausted their scope.

Good luck!