My 2658956th post on why you should see a dentist on time!

This patient had been advised to get her wisdom tooth removed on time. Out of fear, she never got it done!

I removed another tooth for her on the other side and she had no issues at all!

So she knew it won’t hurt!
She finally called 2 days ago saying she is in a lot of pain and needs the tooth extracted!

The issue was that the tooth was very close to the nerve and there was a chance of permanent nerve numbness if it were to get damaged during extraction.

You might say then why take it
out?

Because it was decayed and there was a bigger chance of nerve numbness if the tooth got infected and it spread into the nerve!

That’s exactly what happened!

The right half of her chin and lip was “tingling” when she came in today!

The infection was pressing on the
Protective covering of the nerve and causing the numbness!

I explained to her that now there was a very good chance of numbness! She realised she had no choice.

I numbed her and extracted her tooth. It came out very smoothly! Normally I would have scrapped the infection out
and irrigated the extraction socket with Betadine.

I was not able to do any of that today for fear of damaging the nerve!

I have placed her on a low dose steroid which is generally prescribed in case of numbness!

And now we pray……

Please see a dentist on time!

#Dentist

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