Will I Die?
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You'll probably be fine, I had a similar experience. When I was 12 yrs old I got suddenly sick: high fever, vomiting, extreme swelling on the left side of my face. I was rushed to the emergency room where they found that I had a severe infection, but couldn't tell where it was coming from. I was admitted and stayed for five days on antibiotics (IV), but later went home and was fine. About 8 months later the same thing happened, again they had no clue. I was sent to a infectious disease specialist at the CDC, who also couldn't diagnose it. Finally I had been sent to an ear, nose, and throat specialist because of the lesion that had developed on my gum (abscess) and, just before he took a biopsy, he called his brother over (who was a pediatric dentist). He promptly told me I had an abscess and I got a root canal.
I had lived with the pain of the abscess for two years and the infection had eaten a hole in the bone between my nose and lips the size of a dime (which has since healed). The infection had killed all the nerves in the tooth, so I didn't need so much as a Tylenol for my root canal (which is normally quite painful).
Long story short-if I made it 2 yrs you should be cool till the end of the month. If you start to feel really ill and run a fever, get to the doctor immediately because the infection might have entered your bloodstream.
you will die eventually, but not from that
You will be fine. I am assuming that the Dentist looked at it when you complained and they told you that it must be pulled. If it was a more serious problem they would have made an emergency extraction themselves or had you go to a different doctor.
Good luck and feel better soon.
Whoa! You need to be really careful with any infections in your mouth and head, because the bacteria doesn't have far to travel to your brain. If the infection travels to your brain, you could get bacterial meningitis and die from it.
Best thing to do is to call your dentist first thing in the morning and let them know that you have an infection (abscess). They will prescribe antibiotics to take until you can get your tooth pulled. That will keep the bacteria from spreading. If your dentist won't help you, go to an urgent care center, your doctor, or the emergency room. They will give you antibiotics too.
If the dentist has already had a look at it and/or taken Xays and he isn't rushing you in to have it removed you'll be fine.
Woa!! Call 911!
Yes, you will die. Sorry.
I would at least talk to a family dr (or see another dentist asap!) about getting a 'script (prescription) for an antibiotic medication such as penicillin(sp?) or amoxicillin since waiting too long with an abscess (and I'm not trying to frighten you) can even lead to blood poisoning also known as sepsis. So please do try to talk with a dr and get an antibiotic to help tide you over, however, it certainly does not take the place of an endodontist (dentist who specializes in root canal therapy) handling the abscess. Please take good care.
If you explained this to the dentist when you made an appointment and he gave you that date, then he knows it is o.k. to wait till then. If you did not explain to him the state of you abscessed tooth, then I would call him and tell him the details and ask him if you can wait till then. If he say's it is o.k. then the answer is you won't die.
Sincerely,
Your fairy tooth mother
yeah, you'll be fine, that isn't very far away. that boy had infection longer. you will need to take antibiotics at least 5 days before they pull it. you can get those from your dr if you want, so you don't have to make 2 trips to the dentist. i recommend going to a biologic dentist so you don't get a cavitation.
EXTRACTIONS
Extractions have to be done well. Normally they pull a tooth out, stick a piece of gauze in there and say bite on it. After the tooth is removed, the socket has to be completely cleaned so that complete healing can occur. If tissue such as torn pieces of ligaments or periosteum is left in the socket and covers the bone, the bone will tend to heal over the top, leaving a hole in the bone, and new bone cannot form. This hole can persist for the rest of the patient's life. It is a chronic infection that is called an alveolar cavitational osteopathosis or cavitation. This means that there is an infected cavity in the bone. These bone infections are only now being seriously researched. If they are fairly easy to prevent by proper socket cleaning, why is this not being done? But many if not most dentists have never heard of cavitations.
CAVITATIONS
A cavitation is an unhealed hole in the jawbone caused by an extracted tooth [or a root canal or an injury to a tooth]. Since wisdom teeth are the most commonly extracted teeth, most cavitations are found in the wisdom tooth sites. Please see the graphic and photo below to get a glimpse of what may be in your mouth and the effects it is having. The photo and diagram demonstrate the destructive and pathologic consequence of a routine tooth extraction. Dentists are taught in dental school that once they pull a tooth, the patient's body heals the resulting hole in the jawbone. However, approximately 95% of all tooth extractions result in a pathologic defect called a cavitation. The tooth is attached to the jawbone by a periodontal ligament which is comprised of "jillions" of microscopic fibers. One end of each fiber is attached to the jawbone and the other end of the fiber is attached to the tooth root. When a tooth is extracted, the fibers break midway between the root and the bone. This leaves the socket (the area where the root was anchored in the bone) coated with periodontal ligament fibers.
There are specialized cells in the bone called osteoblasts. Osteoblasts make new bone. The word "osteoblast" means bone former. They are active during growth and maintenance. However, the periodontal ligament prevents the osteoblasts from filling in the tooth socket with bone since the periodontal ligament fibers lining the socket act as a barrier beyond which the osteoblasts cannot form bone. In other words, an osteoblast "sees" a tooth when it "sees" periodontal ligament fibers. Since there are billions of bacteria in the mouth, they easily get into the open tooth socket. Since the bone is unable to fill in the defect of the socket, the newly formed "cavitation" is now infected. Since there is no blood supply to the "cavitation" it is called "ischemic" or "avascular" (without a blood supply). This results in necrosis (tissue death). Hence we call a cavitation an unhealed, chronically infected, avascular, necrotic hole in the bone. The defect acts to an acupuncture meridian the same way a dead tooth (or root canal tooth) acts. It causes an interference field on the meridian which can impair the function and health of other tissues, organs and structures on the meridian. Significantly, the bacteria in the cavitation also produce the same deadly toxins that are produced by the bacteria in root canals (see Root Canals). These toxins are thio-ethers (most toxic organic substance known to man), thio-ethanols, and mercaptans. They have been found in the tumors in women with breast cancer.
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