i keep getting infections and my dentist keeps prescribing antibiotics; should I get a second opinion?
I keep getting infections and my dentist just keeps giving me amoxicillin but the infection comes back a few weeks later each time. I have now had at least four infections and been given amoxicillin each time.
I also have pain under a tooth which he fitted a veneer on to recently and my bite doesn’t feel right because I can’t chew my food right down since he fitted fillings, but every time he looks in my mouth he just files a tiny bit down and it never gets fixed right as I still can’t chew my food right down into a liquid.
I have been getting treatment under sedation since march as I have a terrible phobia of choking and extremely sensitive teeth.
The dentist seems to think I don’t need any further fillings or root treatment but I keep getting these infections and pain in the tooth with the veneer on it – the last infection was particularly bad as the pain was in both my upper and lower gums on the right hand side of my mouth but I was just prescribed amoxicillin for it again which hasn’t really helped as I seem to have an ulcer on my lower gum now and it is very tender to touch.
Should I try changing dentist or persist with the same dentist? I’m still in pain with my teeth.
Generally if you have required 4 courses of antibiotics, then something more permanent needs to be done to repair the problem. I would recommend seeing another dentist if your dentist only wants to give you antibiotics again, this way you would at least get a second opinion and possibly another treatment option.
i have terrible tooth pain, gum pain, i am on two doses of antibiotic at the moment, this is my forth dose of antibiotics but my dentist says he cant do nothing until the infection goes. But how long still i have to suffer like this i thought he will take 2 teeth out as they both hearting in fact now even my ear and inside my mouth and that he will do a bridge. should i go to hospital?
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