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Wierd and VERY painful extraction...not a dry socket...but what???!

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brandyleeeee
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posted 11-02-2009 07:22 AM

I had what seemed like a really traumatic extraction on wednesday. It broke a lot, the dentist had to drill it in half, and it took probably half an hour to remove the tooth in pieces. He also said something about there being a hooked root.
Anyway, as soon as the numbing anesthesia (just local stuff, no knock-out stuff or gas or anything) wore off, I got real bad pain. I figured it was to be expected since it took so long and the tooth was in such bad shape. It got worse, but I was able to fall asleep that night. I woke up about three hours later in the worse pain! I had to take a pain pill I had left over from a bad tooth from quite awhile ago, and was able to sleep again.
It was the same for the next couple days...bad, bad pain all day, and even worse after trying to sleep for a few hours.
I went back in on friday because I thought it must be a dry socket. It wasn't...and the dentist said he wasn't too surprised it hurt real bad after the extraction he had to do. So he gave me a few pain pills and sent me home.
The weekend was excrutiating. The directions on the pills said one every six hours. I needed one every four hours just to barely knock the edge off the pain. I ran our yesterday...not that they were helping that much anyway.
I decided to have a look in my mouth myself, since it was just a little less swollen and things were easier to see. I thought I'd felt a little hole in my gum when everything was still swollen, but I figured it was from the shots of anesthesia. What I saw kind of surprised me and worries me. There is a small, but easily visible hole in the side of my gum that I can actually see jaw-bone through. I think that is what is causing the pain! Maybe the dentist couldn't see it yet or maybe he ignored it. I don;t know. Maybe he did it with the drill, or maybe when it was still infected it actually cracked the gum and jaw a little...
ANybody heard of, seen, or had this? My dentists are kind of jerks, and will be crappy to me if i got back in since what I was told was that it looks like its doing what it is supposed to and will probably just hurt real bad for a few days. But its no better and I'm in agony.

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